That chassee and heel, toe, heel, toe combination is essentially a chassee and beaten step combination, very common in 18th century country dances. The beaten step was not usually specified in the description of the dance, but was one of the steps that might be used whenever a "footing step" was called for.
See my blog entry on Ashley's Ride for an example: http://www.dancehistoryalive.com/blog/2015/05/ashleys-ride/ Jacob On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 9:33 PM, Michael Barraclough via Callers < [email protected]> wrote: > No old ones that I am aware of. Some other modern ones. > -- > Michael Barraclough > [email protected] > www.michaelbarraclough.com > > > > -----Original Message----- > *From*: Tom Hinds <[email protected] > <tom%20hinds%20%[email protected]%3e>> > *To*: [email protected] > *Cc*: Valerie Cohen <[email protected] > <valerie%20cohen%20%[email protected]%3e>>, > [email protected], [email protected] > *Subject*: Re: [Callers] Favorite Triplet ? > *Date*: Wed, 30 Mar 2016 21:03:43 -0400 > > Michael, > > That's one of my favorites too. I'm curious about the chasse down > and heel toe. Are there any old English dances that have this > combination? Maybe French (shouldn't leave them out)? > > > > Tom > > > > _______________________________________________ > Callers mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.sharedweight.net/listinfo.cgi/callers-sharedweight.net > > -- [email protected] http://jacobbloom.net/
