10 November 2010 7:30-11:30 Time Traveller’s Ball St.John’s Church Hall, Reid Lioncello Nuovo (for 3) Le Petit Rouen The Old Measures Lightly Love The Milking Payle / Merry Merry Milkmaids Broome Confesse Glory of the West Hockley in the hole Jack Pudding Mr Lane’s Trumpet Minuet Shepheards Holyday The Great Turk The Toast Always Drunk and Never Sober Les Quatre Saisons The Fairy Dance The Russian Dance Menuet de la cour (1880s Paris version) The Pirates of Penzance Lancers 16 October 2010 7:30-11:30 Pride and Prejudice Ball St.John’s Church Hall, Reid The Bishop The Comical Fellow The Duke of Kent's Waltz Mr Beveridge's Maggot Shrewsbury Lasses Tythe Pig The Young Widow Downfall of Paris La Pouvoir de la Beauté Le Prince de Galles La Mignonette Les Quatre Nymphes (2) Le Quadrille La Strasbourgoise (2) French Waltzing The Triolet The Scotch Reel 21 August 2010 7:30-11:30 Roast and Boiled Renaissance Ball St.John’s Church Hall, Reid 15th century French and Italian Alexandresca Amaroso for 3 Barcelona Belfiore Belriguardo for 2 Lauro Lioncello Nuovo for 3 Rostiboli Verçepe From Arbeau 1589 Branle du Chandelier Branles double/simple/gai and de Bourgogne Branle de Malte From Caroso Furioso From Pattricke/Lovelace ms and/or Playford A Mayden Fayre An Old man is a Bed full of Bones Bobbing Joe Cuckolds all a row Graies Inne Maske Kemp’s Jig Ladys Piller Rose is White Rose is Red 17 July 2010 7:30-11:30 Age of Indulgence Chocolate Ball St.John’s Church Hall, Reid La Chaîne La Chasse Childgrove The Collier’s Daughter La Coquette Fair and Softly Hamstead Heath Knives and Forkes Menuet de la cour Menuet de la Reine Minuet (2) Moll Peatley, the New way My Lady Winwood’s Maggot Poor Robbin’s Maggot The Recruiting Officer Le Soleildieu La Strasbourgeoise (1) Strawberries and Cream (1) Yellow Stockings 19 June 2010 Steampunk 1880s Ball Cotillion dance game to the Queen of the Ball Waltz Polka Russe, Kreuz Polka and dance game with 4 chairs Opposites Attract- Spring 12 Gates of Terspichorea- Spring 6 Sydney Exhibition Quadrille Free Mazurka (or waltz) to Town 4 Cinderella Waltz Contra- Village 8 Pirates of Penzance Lancers Walking the Plank – guest call by William Steed Wind-up Galop / Bordonian National Polka 1&2 Sun and Moon Allemende- Country 16 Newport and a waltz Cotillion with diminishing chairs The Empire Quadrille Indoor Games- Spring 16 Ostendaise Saturday 12 June 3:45-5:15pm Bundanooon Bush Dancing Weekend - with grand piano – dances from 19th century Australian sources Cotillion dance games to Queen of the Ball Waltz The Quadrille Francais/First Set toThe Sydney Exhibition Quadrillededicated to the Ladies of New South Wales, 1879. Polka variants (such as the Kreuz, Esmeralda etc) to the Redowa Polka(by Jullien, published in Sydney in late 1840s) and the Kreuz Polka (by S.Milbourne and published in Adelaide in, c. 1890s) The Lancers as in E.J.Wivell, The Ballroom Companion and Pupil Self-help, Adelaide, 1860 and in Roberts’Manual of Fashionable Dancing, Melbourne, 1875 to Charles d’Albert’s 1881 The Pirates of Penzance Lancers Polka Mazurka (as described in Australian and overseas sources to Roeckel’s The Australian Polka Mazurka published in Sydney in 1860s plus a short display of related variants to Town 4 mazurka medley. Les Varietés Parisiennes as described in Roberts’ Manual of Fashionable Dancing, Melbourne, 1875 to the tune set recorded in many overseas sources. More cotillion dance games to Queen of the Ball Waltz In evening, lead Cotillion dance games and Sydney Exhibition Quadrille. Sunday 13 June, 9:30-11:00 Lost Dances of Earthly Delights Opposites Attract - Spring 12 Gates of Terspichorea- Spring 6 Carousel Waltz- Summer 8 Running the Gauntlet- Autumn 4 The Southern Highland Schottische - Country 4 Varsovienna variant ‘La Va ouvert’ Country 6 Indoor Games -Spring 16 Cinderella Waltz Contra - Village 8 In evening, led Indoor Games and Cinderella Waltz Contra 15 May 2010 Young Victoria Ball St.John’s Church hall Free 5 Step Waltz Sicilian Circle Figured Galopade Mazurka Waltz / Polka Mazurka / Polka Redowa and then medley of Barbarous Elegance/Ad Absurdam/Russian Tour/Conjuring L’Armour Juliana L’Albert Quadrille Triolet Waltz Free Polka & medley of Loose-Cannon Galop/Grapevine Polka/HotCross Polka/Pyrotechnic polka Spanish Waltz The Serious Family Polka ‘Queen of the Ball’ 2 step waltz for the ‘Lumps dance’. The Lord of Lorne Lancers Chase the Lady Highland Schottische then medley of Southern Highland Schottische/Showdown Schottisch/Switch, Swish and Swing Carillion Dunkerque Mazurka Quadrille (Cellarius’ 2nd) Highland Reel The Russian Quadrilles Sir Roger d Coverley (3) 14- 19 April 2010 Jane Austen Festival, Canberra St.John’s Church Hall Note from John: Over the 4 days of this Festival we enjoyed dances both from Jane Austen’s day and from movies featuring Jane Austen’s work or life. I’ve ordered the dances we enjoyed by the half-century in which the instruction source were published. Within that category I’ve grouped dances by form, and after each underlined title I have mentioned, if relevant, the screen production in which the music was heard (using abbreviations: e.g. BJ is Becoming Jane). If it has not been in a movie there’s no code. Lastly, I have mentioned the occasion during the Festival when the dance was taught or led. All the music that was played for the dances is that which was specified in period sources as appropriate for the dance, except for the music that went to our only 1830s dance, the 3 person waltz ‘La Triolet’, and the waltz medley displayed on Thursday evening—for which I used my own tunes. 1650-1700 COUNTRY DANCES Black Bess P&P Movie – Sunday afternoon. The Cushion Dance – Thursday evening The Hole in the Wall Emma TV& BJ – Friday session 4, Friday evening, and Saturday ball. Jack's Maggot Emma TV, Friday session 4 The Juice of Barley Emma TV, Friday session 4 and Friday evening Mr Beveridge's Maggot P&P TV & Emma movie, Friday session 4 and Sunday afternoon Mr Isaac's Maggot Emma TV, Friday session 4 Tythe Pig P&P Movie, Friday session 4, Fridayevening, and tune used the tune for the Sunday dancer’s ‘New Country Dance’ ‘Austentatious’ (or Austen 10). 1700-1750 COUNTRY DANCES A Trip to Paris - Becoming Jane- Saturday ball. 1750-1800 COUNTRY DANCES Auretti’s Dutch Skipper Emma movie- Saturday session 1. The Comical Fellow P&P TV Thursday evening, Sunday afternoon Shrewsbury Lasses P&P TV, Saturday session 1, Sunday afternoon The Touchstone P&P TV, Sunday afteroon A Trip to Highgate P&P TV Saturday session 1, Saturday ball. The Young Widow P&P Movie, Sunday afternoon The Black Dance - Thursday evening The Cossack Dance – Friday session 1 The Rakes of Rochester – Sunday afternoon Soldier’s Joy – Friday session 1, Friday evening Plus FREE COUPLES ALLEMANDE – Friday session 3. COTILLIONS Adonis – Saturday session 3. La Pouvoir de la Beauté Friday session 2, Friday evening Le Prince de Galles Friday session 2 Les Quatre Saisons Friday session 2 La Voltaire et la Franklein Friday session 2, Friday evening 1800 –1850 (most c. 1810-1817) COUNTRY DANCES Dutch Dollars P&P Movie Friday session 1 Haste to the Wedding Emma T Saturday session 1, Saturday ball The Triumph – Saturday night in front of the church. COTILLIONS La Boulangère Friday session 2 (?) La Josephine Saturday session 2, Saturday ball La Napoléon Saturday session 2, Saturday ball La Vinetta Saturday session 2 QUADRILLES The Lancers’ Quadrille Saturday session 2, Saturday ball WALTZES The Slow French Waltz, Jeté Waltz, Quick Sauteuse Waltz- Friday session 3 La Triolet – (set to the tunes ‘In the Highest Room’ and ‘In the Tallest Tower’ composed by John G-G, in his ‘Lost Dances of Earthly Delights Volume 2, Favourites for Four Settings’ book and 4CD set) Friday session 3, Friday evening, Saturday ball. Medley of ‘knotty’ waltzes ‘Alexandrina Waltz’, ‘Hands-off Waltz’, ‘Even-handed Ländler’ and ‘I Wonder as I Wander’ (dances and music composed by John G-G, in same book/CD collection mentioned above) – displayed on Thursday evening. SCOTCH REEL 2 Thomas Wilson figure sets - Saturday session 3 20 March 2010 7:30pm Royalty and Rebels’ ball St.John’s Church Hall Alenchon L’Esperence de Bourbon La Franchoise Nouvelle Belfiore Belriguardo Nuovo for 3 Mercantia Alta Regina Bella Gioiosa Bath Cuckolds all a Row Fain I would Gathering Peascods Gaies Inn Masque Half Hannikan Kemps Jig Lord Carnarvon Ly Bens Distonys My Lady Cullen Paul’s Steeple The Stingo, or the Oyl of Barley Windsor Castle Woodicock 20 February 2010 RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARC OF DANCES St. John’s Church Hall Spring 8 Celtic Spiral 9 Red Rocks Bourréeéé 13 Dancing in the Meadow 16 Indoor Games Summer 1 Longway Home 4 Greetings at the Crossroads 8 Carousel Waltz 12 Busy Fellows 13 Palindrome Autumn 2 Take Eyes 3 Secret Liaison Waltz 9 Full Moon Quadrille Winter 1 Choreographer’s Fancy 8 Coachman’s Puzzle 11 Knotted Square Village 7 Potluck Welcome 14 Ariadne’s Thread Country 2 The Giant’s Backbone 5 His Majesty’s Maggot Court 1 There and Back Again 3 Snowball Slalom 10 Round with Corners. |
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