{"id":206,"date":"2009-02-05T16:36:34","date_gmt":"2009-02-05T21:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soupgreens.com\/?p=206"},"modified":"2009-02-05T16:36:34","modified_gmt":"2009-02-05T21:36:34","slug":"plan-of-a-quadrille-for-sixteen-persons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/?p=206","title":{"rendered":"plan of a Quadrille for sixteen persons"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\">body { background: url(http:\/\/memory.loc.gov\/musdi\/167\/0001.jpg) }<\/style>\n<p>I came across a great looking 1820 how-to diagram for a portion of a dance called the &#8220;Star&#8221; Quadrille figure.  It&#8217;s a poster-size color image with a high-res scan &#8212; 2438&#215;3470 pixels &#8212; so this browser window can&#8217;t do it justice.  But if you give it your whole desktop that should work nicely.  <\/p>\n<p><p style=\"text-align: center; border: 1px dotted #ccc\"><a style=\"border: 1px dotted #ccc\" href=\"http:\/\/memory.loc.gov\/musdi\/167\/0001.jpg\">LINK TO JPEG<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>I discovered it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kickery.com\/2008\/01\/star-light-star.html\">via an entry at the dance history blog Capering &amp; Kickery<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In his manual on quadrilles, early 19th-century (\u201cRegency\u201d) London dancing master Thomas Wilson wrote hopefully that his diagrams, <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8230; together with the printed Directions appended, will enable any person, by marking the Figures on a floor, to perform them correctly without the aid of a Master.<br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; Thomas Wilson, <em>The quadrille and cotillion panorama<\/em>, 2nd ed., London, 1822<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Quadrilles, the ancestors of the modern square dance, were popular in England from the 1810s onward, displacing the longways country dance from its former preeminence in the ballroom.&nbsp; Wilson\u2019s diagrams and directions are in fact quite helpful in deciphering many of the figures needed for the Regency-era quadrille, but he does have occasional failures, as in the figure \u201cL\u2019Etoile\u201d or \u201cThe Star\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came across a great looking 1820 how-to diagram for a portion of a dance called the &#8220;Star&#8221; Quadrille figure. It&#8217;s a poster-size color image with a high-res scan &#8212; 2438&#215;3470 pixels &#8212; so this browser window can&#8217;t do it justice. But if you give it your whole desktop that should work nicely. LINK TO [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}