[SCA-Dance] Halfe Hannikin
Steven Bush
sbbush at earthlink.net
Tue Apr 17 12:47:11 EDT 2007
Greetings.
Henry of Maldon wrote:
>This challenge seems to be premature. A more timely question would
>be: Half Hannikin - What's Playford's Half? The dance, as I know it
>from Playford, does not include any "arming". At most, one could
>guess that the turn at the end is equivalent to arms (IIRC, there's
>at least one Playford dance that uses both terms for what is
>apparently the same figure), but that would be no more than an
>unsupported assumption. So I suppose that the dance described above
>is the modern "Half Hannigan" (to an adaptation of Playford's tune)
>and not a version of Playford's Half Hannikin. Since it is
>mistakenly referred to as being from Playford, it seems that the
>challenge was issued without consulting Playford to see if his dance
>works for this challenge.
While I did not author this challenge, I can say that it is based on
the Typical SCA (TM) way of doing this dance, in a circle, instead of
in a line as Playford writes.
Etienne
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