[Callers] Allemande

[Jacob or Nancy Bloom]

The Lambertville ECD site is pointing to a copy of Samuel, Ann, and Peter
Thompson's Twenty Four Country Dances for the Year 1782, on the Vaughan
Williams Memorial Library website.  There are a couple of things that the
term "allemande" could mean in 1782, but the one that seems correct for
that version of Away To The Camp would be danced as follows:

The couple link right elbows and then straighten out their right arms to
reach their partner’s hand, while they hold left hands behind their backs.
(For an allemand reverse they would reverse this and start by linking their
left elbows.)  They dance forward once around each other and return to
their places.  For the Thompsons' 1782 version of Away To The Camp I
suggest that both Allemande and Allemande Reverse be done, that the
footwork used be a skip-change step (which would have been called "chassee
forward" in 1782), and that all three couples do the allemandes (although a
case can certainly be made for only the active couple doing them.)

If you are interested in dance from that era, check out the blog that my
wife and I have at http://www.dancehistoryalive.com/blog/  We haven't
written an article on Away to the Camp yet, but we'll try to do one soon.

Jacob Bloom

On Wed, Jun 26, 2019 at 5:02 PM tom hinds via Callers <
callers at lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:

> John,
>
> Thanks so much for your hard work and sharing a tremendous amount of
> information with us.
>
> There’s one allemande I’d like to know more about.  It’s the one used in
> the the dance, Away to the Camp which can be seen on the Lambertville ECD
> site.
>
> Tom
>
> Sent from my iPad
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