Playford's Progeny

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====== BARTLETT HOUSE ======
Cruickshank 2001\\
Bray 1699\\
Duple Improper, 2 steps/bar\\
Recordings: {{ ::music:bartlett_house--023b.mp3.zip |}}\\
{{ :music:bartlett_house-psp17.mp3.zip |}}-- preferred recording\\
<code>
 A1  1-4  M cast R, up the middle passing L shoulder to original place, face out.
          W follow partner to opposite W's place, finish facing out
     5-8  Lead partners out and back       
 A2       As above, W casting to L, (Men follow W opposite) passing R shoulders 
          in middle  (now progressed, 1st C proper, 2nd improper)
                           
 B1  1-2  Quick changes R with partners (1 bar), L on side, keep hands on sides  
     3-4  with hands, set forward and back       
     5-8  back to back, L shoulder and finish facing across set       
 B2  1-4  All cast R and dance half way round. Progressed, 2nd improper 1st proper   
     5-8  facing neighbor, 3 changes with hands.</code>
       
       
 Animation http://dancekaleidoscope.org.au/dance.html#BartlettHouse\\
 video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9EtJN2b2ew\\

**The Bartlett Buildings**, sometimes called **Bartlett's Court**, were built by
Thomas Bartlett in 1615, in Holborn, Strype's survey of London in 1720 calls
this little street off Fetter Lane “a very handsome spacious Place, graced with
good Buildings of Brick, with Gardens behind the Houses; and is a place very
well inhabited by Gentry, and Persons of good Repute” It was, moreover,
quite close to Lincoln’s Inn Fields Theatre, where Thomas Bray had danced
and choreographed for the United Company the Bartlett Buildings may have
had personal meaning for Bray.