Dance What you please 7073
Jig · 40 bars · 3 couples · Longwise - 4 (Progression: 213)
- Devised by
- Unknown
- Intensity
- 880/880/800/808/880 = 45% (whole dance)
- Formations
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- Hands across - 4 (HX;4P;)
- Lead/Dance down and up, then cast (DWNUP;CAST)
- Hands round - 4 - and back (HR;4P;BACK;)
- Rights and Lefts (R&L)
- Note: This list may be incomplete and/or incorrect.
- Steps
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- Pas-de-Basque, Skip-Change, Slip-Step
- Published in
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- Miss Milligan's Miscellany of Scottish Country Dances [76]
- Miss Milligan's Miscellany Volume II [13]
- 99 More Scottish Country Dances [96]
- Scottish Country Dances in Diagrams. Ed. 8 [735] (diagram only)
- Scottish Country Dances in Diagrams. Ed. 7 [667] (diagram only)
- Scottish Country Dances in Diagrams. Ed. 6 [636] (diagram only)
- Recommended Music
- Extra Info
- The old MMM Vol 2 says for bars 25–40:
25–32: 1st and 3rd couples make a circle and dance 8 …
The old MMM Vol 2 says for bars 25–40:
25–32: 1st and 3rd couples make a circle and dance 8 slip steps round to left and 8 back again.
33–40: 1st and 2nd couples make a circle and dance 8 slip steps round to left and 8 back again.
The revised combined MMM edition 0f 2007 says:
25 - 32 1st and 3rd couples dance four hands round and back.
33 - 40 2nd and 1st couples dance rights and lefts.
(this is the same as in Miss Milligan’s still earlier “99 More”).
The source is given as:
Skillern, T: Twenty Four Country Dances for the Year 1781
Customary tune: What you please (Skillern)
| Name | Artist | Album | Media | Trk | Type | Time | Pace | Clip | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| What You Please | Muriel Johnstone's Band | Dance Through The Miscellanies - First Part | CD | 4 | J40 8 | 5:43 | 34.3 | ||
| What You Please | Muriel Johnstone's Band | A Dancer's Miscellany Vol II | MC | 7 | J40 8 | 5:43 | 34.3 |
What you please 3/4L · J40
- 1-8
- 1s+2s set, cross RH & dance RH across
- 9-16
- 1s+2s set, cross LH & dance LH across
- 17-24
- 1s lead down the middle, back to top & cast to 2nd places
- 25-32
- 1s+3s circle 4H round & back
- 33-40
- 2s+1s dance R&L
Watch on YouTube
(YouTube must be enabled in cookie preferences to embed videos.)Johnsonville class, NZ, 2023
Added on: 2023-06-05 (Murrough Landon)
Quality: Reasonable
| Name | Date | Owner | Last changed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Budapest Beginner SCD Course 2019/3 | 2019-09-24 | lldikó Szakolczai | Sept. 25, 2019, 8:53 a.m. |
| RSCDS Beginners Framework 2B | Rachel Pusey | Aug. 11, 2019, 10:43 p.m. | |
| CGB 2023 Sommer Class | 2023-06-22 | Gisela Koehne | June 25, 2023, 5:28 p.m. |
| Id | Subject | Date | Submitter | Assigned to | Priority | Disposition |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1121 | Error in diagram - last 8 bars | Feb. 24, 2017, 2:13 p.m. | Arthur Kingsland | Keith Rose | Normal | Fixed |