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The Flower Dance

A Guide to Fashionable Dancing

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The Flower Dance
ID JSS0477
Title The Flower Dance
Document Reference MS 3088
Format 165 x 256 mm
Medium Handwritten Manuscript
Item Type Manuscript
Subject Dance, The Flower Dance, Dashing White Sergeant
Item Description This excerpt is from a series of notebooks compiled by Skinner and his own dance teacher, William Scott. The notebooks were published under the title, A Guide to Fashionable Dancing. Tune The Dashing White Sergeant. Arrangement same as for a Reel - All join hands and advance and retire with Quadrille Step. All full promenade Ladies Chain Gallop to center and back Gallop to center and stop all clapping hands three times All form two Floral arches and let the two top cuppels [sic] gallop under the wreaths to the bottom Every Lady should hold a wreath of flowers.
Creator Unknown
Creator Manuscript Unknown
Publisher Charles Middleton, Keith
Time Period 1870s-1880s
Associated Dates: Creation c.1880
Associated Dates: Manuscript c.1883
Associated Dates: Publication 1884
Location University of Aberdeen
Collection Name Dance Notebooks
Copyright http://www.abdn.ac.uk/diss/historic/documents/copyright

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