Sellenger's Round or
The Beginning of the World
Original
instructions Facsimile of John Playford's The
English Dancing Master
3rd Edition 1657
(Hopefully) easier to
understand instructions:
As
many couples as want to dance stand in a circle with the woman to the
right and the man to the left of each couple.
Part
I
A Everyone
holds hands and takes eight sliding steps to the left. Repeat to the
right
B1 Everyone takes four steps forward to the center of the circle, then four steps back to their places.
Face
your partner, take a step to the right, then a step to the left, then
turn around.
B2 Repeat B1.
Part
II
A While
holding hands, everyone takes four steps forward to the center of the
circle, then four steps back to their places. Repeat.
BB Repeat B1 and B 2 from Part I.
Part
III
A Partners
face each other, take four steps toward each other until they are
lined up right shoulder to right shoulder, then take four steps back
to their place.
Partners
face each other, take four steps toward each other until they are
lined up left shoulder to left shoulder, then take four steps back
to their place.
BB Repeat B1 and B 2 from Part I.
Part
IV
A Partners
hold right hands and walk eight steps around each other. Partners
hold left hands and walk eight steps around each other.
BB Repeat B1 and B 2 from Part I.
