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Half Hannikin

Recording: half_hannikin--the_recruiting_officer-bfdr02.mp3.zip

   (Couples as many as will in a circle.)
   Holding hands, double into the center and back. Repeat.
   Side left and right with your partner.
   Arm right once around with your partner.
   Arm left one and a half times, so that you end up in a new spot.
   Take hand in a circle & begin again.

From John Fitzhugh Millar's 1985 book, Elizabethan Country Dances. (Thanks to Charlene Charette.) The original Playford is a longways dance. See http://rgoldman.org/pryanksters/dances/halfhan.htm

See an animation of this dance.

Half Hannikin

D M for all improper
Recreation from 2013 Jane Austen Ball in Rochester, NY

16 Up a double a back twice
 8 Sharp siding pass by the left and back by the right
 4 Turn your partner two hands around
 4 and move one place clockwise
   Find a new partner and start again

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIGdC8U1u1w
Tune: John Playford “Half Hannikin”

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