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Varsovienne |
-The Varsoviana (Italy) or Varsovienne (France) is
a slow dance in 3/4 time having an accented down beat in alternate
measures. The Varsovienne was originally from Warsaw
in 1850 in honor of Mount Vesuvius and was introduced
to France by a young dance instructor named Désiré
and America in 1853. The Little Foot
Dance and Schottische
are related. The Varsoviana was one of the smoothest and graceful
dances known and it was the most popular of the dances done at
the time.
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Reilley's Amateur Vademecum states:
"Music--3-4 or 3-8 time. This is a very pleasing and graceful
Waltz , and is executed
in two parts; the first part consists of the polka step repeated
four times, and the second part of two mazourkas
and one polka , repeated
for the first time, and the polka-redowa for
the second execution of the second part, and so on, using the
mazourka and polka redowa in the second part."
In another writing it was said that the dance was always divided
into 16 beats of music and was danced by two people!.
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Dance Type |
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1850 |
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Folk
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Various Spellings: Varsouvienne/Varsouviana/Varsovianna/Varsouvienna
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Dodsworth
New Varsovianna |
Varsovienne>
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Varsoviana
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Varsovienne
No. 1 & 2 |
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Varsoviani
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Varsovienne
Waltz |
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Varceliana
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Other Related Dances of the time... |
| Boston |
Kujawiak (Polish) |
Minuet |
Redowa |
| Clap
Dance |
Landler |
Mazurka |
Schottische
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| Cracoviene |
Little
Foot Dance |
Ohorodnik (Ukrainian)
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Sextur (Danish) |
| Galliard |
La
Boulangère |
Patch
Tanz |
Tarantella (Sicilian) |
| Gallopade |
La
Carillon de Dunkerque |
Polka |
Troika (Russian) |
| Kohanochka (Russian) |
La
Cellarius |
polka
mazurka |
Tropanka (Bulgaria) |
| Kreuz
Koenig (German) |
La
Sauteuse |
Polka-Redowa |
Waltz |
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Tempète |
Polonaise |
Weggis (Swiss) |
Dancers, Choreographers etc. |
Political |
| Allen
Dodsworth |
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| Désiré
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Books, Magazine Articles on the dance... |
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Author |
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Publisher |
| Coulon's
Handbook |
Coulon,
Eugene |
1860?
/r.73 |
A.
Hammonds |
| Cartier's
Practical Illustrated Guide |
Cartier,
P. |
1888 |
DeWitt |
| Ball-Room
Guide or Dancing without a Master |
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1879 |
J
Daniel & Sons, Aberdeen |
| Down
Memory Lane |
Murray,
Arthur |
1954 |
Greenburg |
Musicians |
Bands |
Singers |
Poets / Writers |
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Chavez |
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| Benjamin
Lovett |
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Jim De Noone |
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| Ira
W. Ford |
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Arnold |
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Wee King |
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Sokol |
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Misc. Research Words that may be related ... to help your searches |
| Varsovie |
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Basic Step,
(excerpted
from Coulons Handbook-1873):
the gentleman holding the lady by the right arm.
There are two different steps.
1) The first occupies two bars of the music. It
is composed of one step of the Polka for the first bar; and for
the second the foot is slidden to the side, the toe pointed and
kept in that position during the remainder of it. This is to be
repeated eight times, each time turning half round.>
2) The second step
occupies four bars, the first and second bars of which are employed
while the first step of the Polka -Mazurka
is danced, twice to the side; the third bar, while one step of the
Polka is danced, turning half round: and the fourth bar while the
foot is slidden to the side, keeping the toe pointed during the
remainder of the bar. This second step is to be repeated four times.>
Note: There is also an
additional step, which may be danced instead of the second step,
or partly with it,
... that is to say... twice of the one and eight of the other,:
but this is left to the option of the dancers. It is danced thus:
-- One Polka stop, which takes one bar, observing to slide the first
step instead of jumping, and turning like the Waltz.
This is to be repeated sixteen times, when part of the second step
is not used. |
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