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.