The Queen of Tarts

(CW1223)  (28 JUN '12)

Dance 3 in "Simonet's Suite"*.    4-Couple Round.    Change-partner (men progress one-quarter anticlockwise, ladies finish halfway round).    After 4 rounds all are home, but then repeat A1:1-8 as a coda to "square-up" the set, ready for "The Pretty Parisian" (the fourth dance in this suite of five).

A1:1-8

Partners set and turn-single right (8), into a Grand Chain, starting right hands to partner, four changes, to face partner again (8).

  B:1-8

Partners right-hand turn halfway, left-hand turn halfway (8), into an all-four Ladies' Chain, ladies just going to the next man round for a left-hand turnout, and all face this "currant tart"-ner in square formation (8).

A2:1-8

All set and turn-single right (8), into a Grand Chain, starting right hands to currant tart-ner, four changes, to face them again (8).

  C:1-8

All two-hand turn this one halfway to face out (4), lead out, turning away to face the corner dancer (4), two-hand turn this one halfway to face in (4) and lead back in (on the corner), turning away to face a new partner (4).

Repeat the whole dance three more times, to original places, then repeat A1:1-8 as a coda to finish in a square set.

Music: "La Poule"(ABAC x 4, + A) by Simonet (c.1820), as played by Spare Parts for the third figure, "No.3  La Corinne", of the "Fashionable Parisian Quadrille" suite on their 2007 CD "The Regency Ballroom" (Track 8).


* The non-stop sequence of five inter-connected dances that I've written to fit tracks 6-10 of the above CD (preferably without repetition, hesitation or deviation!) is called "Simonet's Suite" and consists of: "An(ne)t(te')s in her Pants" (4-couple longways), "Summer Storms" (4-couple Becket), "The Queen of Tarts" (4-couple Round), "The Pretty Parisian" (Square) and "The Last Syllable" (4-couple longways again).


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