Cruickshank 2001
Bray 1699
Duple Improper, 2 steps/bar
Recordings: bartlett_house--023b.mp3.zip
bartlett_house-psp17.mp3.zip– preferred recording
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.
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.