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Jaque Latin

Duple Minor Longways, 2/4 meter
Playford 1775
Hendrickson 1996
Recording: jaque_latin-bnbc7-01.mp3.zip

A1  1-8  W1 hey with men, giving L-shoulder to M2 (end home)
A2  1-8  M1 repeat with women (R-shoulder to W2 begin)
B1  1-8  C1 cross passing R-shoulder, move down one place 
         (C2 move up), cross and move down one more place
B2  1-4  C1 lead up to below original C2 and set to them
    5-8  C1 lead up through C2 and cast to 2nd place
C1  1-4	 Facing on the diagonal, all set twice 
    5-8	 L-hands across once round
C2  1-4	 Facing on the diagonal, all set twice
    5-8	 R-hands across once round

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62E0XunihFM
Additional private notes

The tune to which Willsim sets his dance was among the most popular of a the 18th century and comes with a spectacular story, unearthed by Sean Donnelly in 1988. John Lattin (also Latton or Layton) was the scion of a wealthy gentry family in Naas, County Kildare.

John Lattin, according to a still surviving tombstone, died at the age of twenty-one in 1731- not, in itself, remarkable in the 18th century, Multiply attested tradition, however, suggests that John (Jack) Lattin accepted a wager to dance the eight miles from Castle Browne back to his home at Morristown. Lattin succeeded, and then collapsed and died of exhaustion shortly thereafter.
As a family rhyme has it:

  • Jack Lattin dressed in satin
  • Broke his heart of dancing
  • He danced from Castle Browne .
  • To Morristown.
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