The Lancers
| ID | JSS0490 |
| Title | The Lancers |
| Document Reference | MS 3088 |
| Format | 165 x 256 mm |
| Medium | Handwritten manuscript and Newsprint |
| Item Type | Manuscript |
| Subject | Scottish Dance, The Lancers |
| Item Description | This excerpt is from a series of notebooks complied by Skinner and his own dance teacher, William Scott. The notebooks were published under the title, A Guide to Fashionable Dancing. The compilers have pasted in a printed version of the dance. It is preceded with a short introduction and half way down, a note has been inserted. The introduction reads as follows: The Lancers The Lancers are not new but have again become popular in consequence of their elegance and revival at State balls + circles in high life. The note reads: [...It is now the fashion for the four ladies to advance and courtesy to each other; then each lady turns to her partner and curtseys to him. The ladies do the moulinet while the gentlemen all move round outside the quadrille and return to places. This is repeated four times. The second and fourth times all the gentlemen advance, and immediately turn towards their partners and bow to them, and continued the figure as before.] We approve of this change as it suits tall and short dancers. |
| Creator | James Scott Skinner and William Scott |
| Creator Manuscript | James Scott Skinner |
| Publisher | Charles Middleton, Keith |
| Time Period | 1870s-1880s |
| Associated Dates: Creation | c.1883 |
| Associated Dates: Manuscript | c.1883 |
| Associated Dates: Publication | 1884 |
| Location | University of Aberdeen |
| Collection Name | Dance Notebooks |
| Copyright | http://www.abdn.ac.uk/diss/historic/documents/copyright |
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