Joan's Placket
Introduction
Choreography
Notes
Music
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Author:
Michael Barraclough (1970s)
Original:
Dancing Master (1698-1728)
Original:
Recüeil de Contredances (Feüillet, 1706)
Formation:
Circle improper, (mixer)
Music:
Joan’s Placket (1698) G 6/8
A1
1-4
Side-by-side right & back
A2
1-4
Side-by-side left & back
B1
1-4
8 jumps (rotating RLRLRLRL)
5-8
Partner two-hand turn
B2
1-4
1-4 8 jumps (rotating LRLRLRLR)
5-8
Partner two-hand turn 1½ (to progress)
Notes
1
Originally a longways single minor, I have converted it to a circle
2
The French source helps us to understand that siding is forward into line and back what “dance to one another” actually means
3
The tune is basically Cock of the North. This well-known ‘traditional English/Scottish’ tune was first published in a French opera at the beginning of the seventeenth century.
4
A placket was a large opening/pocket in a skirt or trousers and was slang for a prostitute
5
The original dance is the basis for the English ceilidh dance ‘Jumping Joan’
6
Pat Shaw published his version in Six simple Country Dances from Feüillet’s Recüeil de Contredances, 1706 and from Essex’s Choreography, 1710
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