ins_cheshire_rounds
Cheshire Rounds
Playford's Dancing Master of 1701.
Adapted by Charles Bolton in 2000.
Proper duple minor dance.
A1 1-4 W1 cast down around both 2s up to partner's place, M1 follows up middle to her place A2 1-4 M2 cast up around both 1s, W2 follows B1 1-2 1s cross go below, 2s two hand turn half, lead up 3-4 Partner two hand turn B2 1-4 Four changes of rights and lefts
music?
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lte3LiXo_Wg
More information on the dance:
https://tunearch.org/wiki/Annotation:Cheshire_Rounds_(1)
“Cheshire Rounds” was a celebrated tune and dance sometimes danced by a couple (whose gyrations resembled the movements of the sun and moon) and sometimes by a single person. The only known portrait of Doggett (who founded the celebrated waterman's badge) shows him dancing the “Cheshire Round.”
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