====== Sadler's Wells ====== Reconstruction by Douglas and Helen Kennedy 1929\\ Duncing Master 1728\\ Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ye9nUv0o7Jk\\ Recording: {{ ::music:sadlers_wells-063_bn6atb-13.mp3.zip |}}\\ Duple minor proper A1 1-4 Back to back with neighbour 1-4 Back to back with partner A2 1-4 Turn neighbour 2H once round 1-4 Turn partner 2H once round B1 1-4 All set towards center, turn single back to place, clapping 3 times as you turn 5-8 Circle 4 hands L once round (This was missing until 211023) B2 1-4 1s 1/2 figure 8 down through C2 5-6 1s cross and go below, C2 moving up. 7-8 Partners two hand turn once around End facing next couple ready to back to back. {{::sadlerswellsplay5898.gif?600|}} **SADLER’S WELLS** The story of Sadler's Wells is, if anything, even more romantic. Richard Sadler, having discovered a former monastic spring on his property in Islington, opened a “Musick House” and pleasure garden there, claiming that its iron-rich waters were effective in treating “dropsy, jaundice, scurvy, green sickness, and other distempers to which females are liable — ulcers, fits of the mother, virgin's fever and hypochondriacal distemper.” After a brief spell as a fashionable resort for its concerts and waters, however, it suffered such a decline that by 1711 it was called “a nursery of debauchery; and in 1724 its then-manager, James Miles, ‘was murdered. Sadler's Wells now enjoys happier days: the sixth theater on the site is now one of the world’s premier venues for dance performance.