dancing in england (well, country dancing) is done to jigs all the time> And musicians in the british isles can all play naturally in 6/8 time(though classically trained fiddlers can have difficulties getting a good rhythm using the traditional jig bowing). kids always skip round the playground with their feet going naturally in 6/8. It's very exhilarating dancing to jigs. It's also very exhilarating watching people dancing to jigs, as any barn dance musician will tell you. to put the matter delicately, the skip step people do to jigs induces a certain unique bounce in the female anatomy. Maybe it was American puritans who stopped the fiddlers playing jigs??