Dance experts: variations of minuet

Subject: RE: Dance experts: variations of minuet
From: GUEST
Date: 18 Jan 22 - 05:28 PM

Devonshire minuet - put cream on first !

Subject: RE: Dance experts: variations of minuet
From: leeneia
Date: 18 Jan 22 - 11:33 AM

Two people dancing the Minuet de la Cour:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxGM5acOCwk

Subject: RE: Dance experts: variations of minuet
From: GUEST,Modette
Date: 18 Jan 22 - 05:13 AM

This might help.

Le Menuet de la Cour

Subject: Dance experts: variations of minuet
From: GUEST,PB
Date: 18 Jan 22 - 04:28 AM

A book I'm reading quotes a dancing master's ad (notice, please, Sir!) in the Nottingham Journal of 22nd Feb 1783, offering classes in "plain minuet, Pargrave minuet, De La Cour minuet, Devonshire minuet, English rigadoon, allemande, quadrille, cotillions and country dances."

The last lot I suppose are the social staple of Jane Austen, George Eliot (as in Silas Marner), and the like. But has anyone a clue how the variants differed from the basic minuet- and preferably explain accessibly to a non- dancer?