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--- ins_newcastle [2019/04/24 00:22] – created - external edit 127.0.0.1
+++ ins_newcastle [2025/08/10 02:27] (current) – mar4uscha
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 ====== Newcastle ======
 As in "The Playford Ball"\\
+Cecil Sharp, 1911\\
 Square for 4 couples\\
 Recordings: {{ ::music:newcastle-bsbnd03.mp3.zip |}}\\
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-Newcastle                 Round for eight
+====== Newcastle ======
+Round for eight \\
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    B6    8  Fall back in lines, come forward.
   Turn single and cross over with opposites to original places.</code>
-Newcastle           4 couple round
-<code>
-   Hands-8 into centre, fall back; partners set, contraries set. Repeat.
-   Partners arm R; men L hands across to places
-   while women skip round them, clockwise to places.
-   Partners arm L; women R hands across to places
-   while men skip round them, anticlockwise to places.
-   Partners side; step R and honour, pass on. Side with the next, step and honour, pass on.
-   Original head couples (now at sides) lead forward a double,
-   lead back and make arches;
-   original side couples cast round, through arches and back.
-   Repeat with side couples making the arches and head couples casting.
-   Arm R with next; arm L 3/2 and pass on.
-   Repeat with next and fall into lines up and down the room,
-   close together, original heads at ends of lines.
-   Join hands in lines and fall back a double, forward a double;
-   turn single, cross over with person opposite
-   and form lines across the room, original sides at ends.
-   Fall back in lines, come forward; turn single and
-   cross over with opposites to original places.</code>
+**NEWCASTLE**\\
+Although the town of Newcastle was an important
+source of coal for London, it is quite possible that this
+elegant dance was inspired by William, Duke of
+Newcastle, a royalist who remained in London and bent
+his interests towards the theatre during the interregnum.