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Thread #110674   Message #2326565
Posted By: Desert Dancer
26-Apr-08 - 07:45 PM
Thread Name: Mr. Turner's Academy Cotillion-need notation help
Subject: RE: Mr. Turner's Academy Cotillion
Compton -- here's Alan Winston's reply:

Could you ask him what he means by "the country dance forum"; if it's the ECD list [US], that's still working fine, and I'd work with him on his problem.

I'm pretty sure that once he has Mr. Turner's, he won't be able to use it for much, but here it is. (I once got a group at dance camp to learn this for a performance, but the fiddler refused to go more than two times through the tune (which was still something insane like 192 bars) and the dancers were completely whacked after only two reps; these things should typically go four or five. But here you are, anyway.

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MR. TURNER'S ACADEMY COTILLION
Morrison
own tune, NIB, Key G, 2/4
Cotillion - square for four

A1&2 The changes

B1: Heads meet and rigadoon (8 counts); circle left once round
   (walking or chasse step) and fall back to places.

B2: Sides the same.


C1&2: Heads lead out to face the side couples on their right (4 counts),
    give both hands to opposite, chasse away from partners and back (8 cts),
    then all turn single (men over left shoulder, women over right) into
    two lines (involving all eight people). Each dancer ends 1/4
    counterclockwise around the set of four.

D1:   Lines of four join hands, go forward and back (8 beats); then
    turn partner 2 hands once round to original place. (sks for turns.)

C3&4 Side couples lead out to face the heads on their right, and repeat as in C1&2. The lines form perpendicularly to the earlier lines.

D2:   As in D1.


NOTE: As in all cotillions, the changes are standardized figures, usually in the form "everybody involved in the figure sets and rigadoons, then do the figure." Typical first figure is "all round" (all set and rigadoon (eight counts), hands in a ring, slip/gallop/chasse left, let go, and fall to the sidelines, repeat (circling right) to home). Other figures are men's hands across, women's hands across, rights and lefts, etc. If you've got four
figures, you could go with
slipping circle men's star (women get a rest)
women's star (men get a rest)
rights and lefts (everybody active)