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-====== Elephants Stairs ======
+===== Elephant Stairs =====
+Proper duple minor, Walsh 1727
+(Andrew Shaw c. 2017)
-Longways, duple minor proper\\
-Walsh, 1727. \\
-Interpreted by Andrew Shaw 2017\\
-Tune: Elephants Stairs
 <code>
-A1 1-8 1st cpl. figure 8 around the standing 2nd cpl., starting by casting down and
+C1 cast into full figure 8 round C2 (who don't move)
-       finishing by turning out into original place, taking 6 steps to cast down, 6
+C2 cast up into full figure 8 round C1
-       to cross up, 6 to cast down again, and 6 to cross up and turn out into place.
+Men lead through women and cast back to place
-A2 1-8 2nd cpl. figure 8 around the standing 1st cpl., starting by casting up and
+C1 lead through C2 and cast back to place
-       finishing by turning out into original place, the timing of the movement as
+Women lead through men and cast back to place
-       in AI.
+C2 lead up through C1 position, cast back and
-B1 1-4 Men lead through the we. and cast back to place (6 + 6 steps).
+then lead up again to C1 position WHILE C1 cast
--8 1st cpl. lead down through 2nd cpl. and cast back to place (6 + 6 steps).
+down, lead up and cast down again to new
-B2 1-4 Women lead through the men and cast back to place (6 + 6 steps).
+position.
--8 2nd cpl. lead up through 1st cpl., cast back to place and lead up again into 1st
+</code>
-       place, as 1st cpl. cast down, lead back to place and cast down again into 2nd
-       place (unphrased). </code>
-Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZZUj1uYz5Y\\
-Note on the title:\\
-Watermen's Stairs were part of the river transport system on the Thames in London, used at high tide
-to pick up and put down passengers. Elephant Stairs are on the south bank of the river, at the foot of
-Elephant Lane in Rotherhithe. They are shown on Rocque's map of 1746 and Greenwood's map of
-, amongst others, and are pictured in one of Avery Illustration's photographic riverscapes
-commissioned by the Port of London Authority in 1937. Surprisingly, despite the total redevelopment
-of this area since then, a modern set of steps still gives access to the foreshore from Elephant Lane.
-Note:\\
-In contrast to the measured nature of the rest of the dance, B2 5-8 should be danced with drive, as a
-continuous movement. 1st cpl. should be able to move effortlessly into the next turn of the dance.
-Note on the dance: \\
-The figure is that of the dance Valiant Jockey set to a different tune. Valiant ]ockey was first published
-by Henry Playford in The Dancing-Master ... The Ninth Edition, in 1695.
-For history buffs:
+Music: Persons of Quality, Elephant Stairs album
-https://knowyourlondon.wordpress.com/2019/01/04/elephant-stairs/\\
-From at least Tudor times until the 19th century, one way for a pedestrian in London to travel was to be rowed on the Thames. River stairs were once to found every few hundred yards along both sides of the Thames...