SELLENGER'S ROUND

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 151, 27 June 1936, Page 7 (Supplement)

SELLENGER'S ROUND

MISS M. BLACKBURNE Presents—

THE POPULAR CLOSING DANCE

This dance is the Country Dance equivalent to "Auld Lang Sync. It seems to be recognised by common consent as a fitting end to a Folk Vancc evening. It is nof, however, intended to be the end of this scries, but you probably have enough dances now to keep you busy for an evening, and Scllengcr's Round is quite the iigi_ and proper dance to have before you say "Good A ight, so thought this a good time to make you acquainted ■with each other.

Any number of couples can take part. The formation is easyjust a circle with the woman partner on the right. All face the centre with hands joined. VERSE I.—Music No. 1, Bars 1-4: All slip round eight steps clockwise. Bars 5-8: Now reverse the direction and go eight steps counterclockwise. CHORUS I, with its Music. —Bars 1-2: Drop hands and all step forward towards the middle with the right foot, close the left foot to it (see photograph No. 6). This is really what is known as forward a single. Now do this again, but step forward with the left foot and close the right to it; in other words move forward another "single." Take care to keep the circle formation while the first and second singles are danced. Bars 3 and 4: All now take four running steps backward ("backward a double ). s"^" Partners face each other and set to the right and left and turn single." Repeat the Chorus music again with exactly the same movements as before. VERSE 2, with Music No. I.— Bars 1-4: All join hands and take four running steps forward, raising the hands high above the head at the fourth count (see photograph No. 7). Now take four vunning steps backward, lowering the hands. Bars 5-8: Do all this again. CHORUS 2, with its music played twice through.—Repeat the entire chorus twice as after the Ist verse. VERSE 3. —Music No. 1, Bars 1-4: Partners face each other and "side," passing left shoulders and right on the return to positions. Siding is always so easy in a circle dance, for the women are always inside the ring and the men outside when crossing. Bavj 5-8: Repeat siding again. CHORUS 3, with its Music played twice through. Do exactly as before.

VERSE 4.—Music No. 1, Bars 1-4: Partners face and do "arming" with the right arm. Bars 5-8: Now the same with the left. CHORUS 4, music repeated.—All the same as before. VERSE s.—Music No. 1, Bars 1-8: The sth verse is merely a repetition of the Ist. Eight slip steps clockwise, eight counter-clock-wise. I always like to see this part dancod with a little more spirit than the Ist verse, just to show that no one is tired out with the continuous movement of the dance. CHORUS S, with its music played twice through, is the same af all the rest, except that during the last bar each dancer bows or curtsies. It is recorded by Columbia No. DO 11, coupled with "If All thi World Were Paper" and "Black Nag.