Jump For Joy
Introduction
Choreography
Notes
Music
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Author:
Michael Barraclough (c1975)
Formation:
Sicilian circle
Music:
Specific tune - Jean de Paris
Publshed:
Country Bumpkin (Michael Barraclough)
A1
1
1st man jump
2
2nd lady jump
3
2nd man jump
4
1st lady jump
5-8
Circle left
A2
1
1st man jump
2
1st lady jump0
3
2nd man jump
4
2nd lady jump
5-8
Circle right
B1
1-2
(Facing partner) set forward right & left and kiss
3-4
Set back right & left
5-8
Partner two-hand turn
B2
1-2
(Facing neighbor) set forward right & left and kiss
3-4
Set back right & left
5-8
Neighbor two-hand-turn 1½ (end facing next neighbor)
© Michael Barraclough, 2016
Notes
1
In each circle, #1 man is facing clockwise
2
The turn 1½ in B2 is really more like turn 1¼ and then let go and keep moving forward.
3
Written as a birthday present for Joy Stanway. The tune is a popular tune for North West Morris. This version comes from the Rev R Harrison's Ms, c1815, Cumbria. Kissing in English C ountry Dances, which had been prevalent in England in the seventeenth century, was also very popular in thye 1970s (but not in folk dance clubs!).
4
I have revised the order of jumps in A2 from that originally published.
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