The dance is considered a gesture type - chain dance with graceful arms while moving as a chain and became very popular in 1600. It could be danced by a couple or group. The basic steps are of the Chasse' (Landler ), gliding passes, changing partners back to back and charming turns. It has been written that the Germans dance the Allemande where the men and women form a ring. Each man holding his partner round the waist, makes her whirl round with almost inconceivable rapidity: they dance in a grand circle, seeming to pursue one another: in the course of which they execute several leaps, and some particularly. pleasing steps, when they turn, but so very difficult as to appear such even to professed dancers themselves. When this dance is performed by a numerous company, it furnishes one of the most pleasing flights that can be imagined. The air should be lively. The Allemande can be danced by one couple or any number of couples, placing themselves behind each other. The Allemande step is three pas marchés and the front foot raised while the dance figures were sometimes difficult to execute. It seems to have had an ancient origin or something like it, was danced as far back as 1540 at the fête which Francis I . gave to Charles V . to do him special honour.
Alman (Johnson)
Almayne (Holborne)
Allemande (Buxtehude)
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Allemande (Schein)
Fall of the Leaf - Alman (Peerson)
My Lady Hudsons Puffe - Alman (Dowland)
The Honeysuckle Alman (Holborne)
Three Part Allmand (Brade)
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Bal Champetre
Alsac
Elector of Cologne (1759)
Kenilworth (1575)
Wauxhall
n/a
Allewander
Folia
Jig Allemande (1866)
Pavane
Basse, La
Gagliarde
Landler
Scottish Reel
Branle, La
Gaillarde
Minuet
Volta
Contredanse, La
Gavotte
Moresca
Waltz
Courante
Hautes
Motovidlo
Ballon (1702)
Master Guillaume
Louis XIV
Casanova (1759)
Master Waldau
Napoleon
Master Dubois
Subligny (1702)
Queen Elizabeth
Catherine de Medici
Francis I (1540)
Charles V. (1540)
Arbeau
Brade, William (c.1560-1630)
Buxtehude, Dietrich (c,1637-1707)
Dowland, John (c.1563-1626)
Holborne, Anthony (15??-1602)
Johnson, Robert (1540-1626)
Peerson, Martin (1572-1650)
Schein, Johann Hermann (1586-1630)
Aristocracy
Dancing Masters
French Court
Renaissance Dance
Baroque Period
de Medici
Italian Dances
1) The lady stands in front of the gentleman; he holds her left hand with his left and her right hand with his right hand. For four bars they go forward and pose, and repeat this four times, the last time they pass forward for two bars only, and turn; this occupies eight bars of the music, and is danced straight across from the left to the right of the stage. 2) Circle four steps round and quick turn; the gentleman turns the lady with arms overhead, and the lady turns the gentleman. 3) Polka forward, change hands quickly, and turn, then polka back slowly, turn and pose. 4) The lady makes four pas de basques in front of the gentleman and turns, the gentleman ending on the right. 5) Four steps across the stage, turn and pose. Take two steps back, turn and pose, and repeat.
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