[SCA-Dance] Regional Variation Question
Jeff Suzuki
jeff_suzuki at yahoo.com
Mon Feb 26 14:59:55 EST 2007
Greetings!
I recently attended a dance class where the teacher
had the couples going in what (to me) seems to be a
non-standard direction. I'm wondering if it's a
regional variation.
The two dances were:
1) Gathering Peascods: Initial steps circle to the
right; women go in first and circle left. (Playford
doesn't specify direction, so it's certainly a
plausible reconstruction, but I've never danced it
this way).
2) Pease Bransle: Again, initial steps are to the
right; also, men jump towards their partner. (This
seems a little hard to fit with Arbeau's choreography,
which mentions the doubles to the left)
Jeffs/etc.
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