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Cuirassiers
ID JSS0491
Title Cuirassiers
Document Reference MS 3088
Format 165 x 256 mm
Medium Handwritten Manuscript
Item Type Manuscript
Subject Scottish Dance, Cuirassiers
Item Description This excerpt is from a series of notebooks compiled by Skinner and his own dance teacher, William Scott. The notebooks were pulished under the title, A Guide to Fashionable Dancing. Cuirassiers 1. First and opposite couple half right and left - side couples the same. All promenade to places and turn partners. The ladies advance and retire - gentlemen do the same. All set and turn partners. 2. Two ladies move to right, and hands three round. The ladies again set to right and turn opposite gentlemen. Lady and opposite gentlemen advance and retire, back to back. Set and turn partners. 4. First lady advance twice. Opposite gentleman do the same. First couple advance twice, leaving lady at left of opposite gentleman. The two ladies cross and change sides, while first gentleman passes between them - the same repeated to places - set and turn partners. 5. All change sides and back again. Lady advance and retire opposite gentleman the same - the ladies move to the right into next lady's place and stop. The ladies again to right - gentlemen to left. All promenade to places and turn partners.
Creator James Scott Skinner and William Scott
Creator Manuscript James Scott Skinner
Publisher Bayley & Ferguson, Glasgow
Time Period 1870s-1880s
Associated Dates: Creation c.1883
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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