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Allemande, from a dancing manual of c. 1769. An allemande (allemanda, almain(e), or alman(d), French: "German (dance)") is a Renaissance and Baroque dance, and one of the most common instrumental dance styles in Baroque music, with examples by Couperin, Purcell, Bach and Handel.
Actives drop right hands and allemande left with their first corners until they meet each other again. Actives now let go of first corners and allemande right until they reach their second corners. A final allemande left, with their second corners, is finished when the members of the active couple are facing each other again. [2]
Allemande left with your left hand. / Back to the partner for a right and left grand. or Ace of diamonds, Jack of spades / Meet your partner and all promenade. The square dance calls are underlined; all the rest is patter. Many callers spend time inventing their own unique patter or variants on common patter.
"Money Musk" being danced at Youth Dance Weekend 2019 in Weston, Vermont, with music by Calluna.The clip begins after the caller has dropped out. "Money Musk" (/ ˈ m ʌ n ɪ m ʌ s k / [1]), alternatively "Monymusk" or other variations, is a contra dance first published in 1786.
For example, the Allemande Left is traditionally performed by grasping left hands with the other dancer, pulling away from each other slightly, and walking halfway around a central axis then stepping through. In modern western square dance, the grip is modified so that each dancer grips the forearm of the other, and there is no pulling (that is ...
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Detail from frontispiece to Thomas Wilson Correct Method of German and French Waltzing (1816), showing nine positions of the waltz, clockwise from the left (the musicians are at far left). At that time, the waltz was a relatively new dance in England, and the fact that it was a couples dance (as opposed to the traditional group dances), and ...
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