Of Positions and half Positions having several Marks at once.
Positions
and
half Positions
may have several
Marks
together, as
Steps
have; and it must be observ’d of the
Marks
for
Sinking, Rising, Springing
, and
Capers
, that the
Mark
plac’d nearest to the O, is what must be first made; but when there is the
Mark
for the Foot up, that must certainly be the last perform’d.
| Sink, and rise on one Foot. | Sink, and rise on both Feet. | Rise, and sink on one Foot. | Rise, and sink on both Feet. |
| Sink, and spring on one Foot. | Sink, and spring on both Feet. | Spring, and sink on one Foot. | Spring, and sink on both Feet. |
| Sink, spring, and sink on one Foot. | Sink, spring, and sink on both Feet. | Sink, and caper on one Foot. | Sink, and caper on both Feet. |
| Sink, and spring a half Turn to the Left on one Foot. | The same on both Feet. | Sink, caper a three quarter Turn to the Right on one Foot. | Sink, caper on both Feet a whole Turn to the Right. |
| Turn on the Toes a half Turn to the Left. | The same on the Heels. | Sink, rise, and turn a half Turn on the Toes to the Right. | The same on the Heels. |
All the Marks of sinking and rising, which have been already demonstrated upon the Step, have Relation to the Bendings and Risings of both the Knees: But when it shall happen, that in moving in a Dance, one Knee only ought to bend or rise, the following Rules must be observed.
It will be necessary upon this Occasion, to understand when one Leg moves, what the other ought to do; to demonstrate which, I shall make use of a half Position and a Step, which must be ty’d together by a Small Line, of which, one end is join’d to that which represents the Heel of the half Position, and the other to the Head of the Step. This Union denotes, that the half Position and the Step, are both to act at the same time.
To bend the left Knee, while the right moves extended.
To bend, and rise the left Knee, while the right moves extended.
To bend the left Knee, moving the right half way extended and afterwards to bend in moving.
To bend the left Knee, the right moving extended, and sink in the middle of the Step, and rise on the Toes.
To bend the right Knee in moving, and rise towards the end, the left continuing extended.
Two Steps ty’d together at the Heads, shew they are both to move at once, which can only be perform’d by springing, which I shall hereafter call a starting Step.
These kind of starting Steps, may be practis’d two ways, viz. with both Knees stiff, or falling with the Knees bent.
The first of these needs no other Mark for Direction, but the sliding Mark; but the other must have the sliding and falling Marks together.
| To Spring with both Feet open at once. | With one Foot forwards, and the other backwards, both at once. |
| A starting Step, with both Feet open, the Knees stiff. | A starting Step, one Foot forwards, the other backwards, the Knees stiff. |
| A starting Step, with both Feet open, and falling with both Knees bent. | The same, one Foot backwards, the other forwards. |