Identifier: dancingcompletei00wils (find matches)
Title: Dancing : a complete instructor and guide to all the new and standard dances, with a full list of calls for all the square dances : the necessary music for each figure, etiquette of the dances, and one hundred figures for the German
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Wilson, Marguerite
Subjects: Dance
Publisher: Philadelphia : Penn Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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URE Salute to the United States Army .... 4 measures Ladies : To the Right, four times 32 Head Couples: Cross Over and Back. . 8Side Couples : Cross Over and Back . . 8 All: Turn Corners 4 Turn Partners 4 Danced four times. After the fourth time, All: Forward and Salute Opposite . . , . 4 measuresSalute Partners 4 EXPLANATION The four ladies leave their partners, advance foursteps to gentlemen at their right, salute, and turnwith right hand. They then pass on to the nextgentleman, and so on around the set, turning orig-inal partners last. The first couple then join hands,their arms crossed. The first and second couplesthen cross over, the second couple separating to letthe first couple pass between them. They thenreturn to place, the second couple joining hands andthe first couple separating. This is repeated by thethird and fourth couples. All advance four steps tocorner partners and turn with right hands ; then takefour steps back to original places and turn partnerswith left hands.
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t-H w H Square Dances 95 CONTRA-DANCES This class of dances derives its name from the factthat partners, instead of standing side by side, as inthe square dances, stand opposite and facing eachother. Under this head have also been included, forconvenience, a few dances which, though not con-forming to the description given above, are yet morenearly related to the Contra-Dance than to either theSquare or the Round Dances. THE VIRGINIA REEL (SIR ROGER DE COVERLY) This is the most popular of the Contra-Dances,and no informal programme is considered completewithout it. Any number of couples may participate,but where the number of dancers is very large it isbetter to form several sets of six or eight coupleseach than one large set. Two parallel lines areformed, one of gentlemen and one of ladies. Thesetwo lines stand facing, each gentleman opposite hispartner. The space between the lines should beabout four feet wide. The lady and gentlemanoccupying the ends of the lines towards the head o

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