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Dance experts: variations of minuet

18 Jan 22 - 04:28 AM (#4132753)
Subject: Dance experts: variations of minuet
From: GUEST,PB

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?


18 Jan 22 - 05:13 AM (#4132758)
Subject: RE: Dance experts: variations of minuet
From: GUEST,Modette

This might help.

Le Menuet de la Cour


18 Jan 22 - 11:33 AM (#4132787)
Subject: RE: Dance experts: variations of minuet
From: leeneia

Two people dancing the Minuet de la Cour:

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


18 Jan 22 - 05:28 PM (#4132837)
Subject: RE: Dance experts: variations of minuet
From: GUEST

Devonshire minuet - put cream on first !