How to know what Steps and half Positions are with the right Foot, and what with the left.
The
Tract
or
Line
, on which
Dances
are describ’d, whether forward or backward, must be consider’d in respect to its right side mark’d R, and the left side mark’d L, as may be seen by the following
Example.
The Steps and half Positions, which are on the right side, are made with the right Foot; and those which are on the left side, with the left Foot, as the following Movements will demonstrate, where I shall give to each Step and half Position, the same Letters r and l, the better to explain them.
Besides the Letters, r and l, the Step and half Position of the right or left Foot, will be easily known, by observing which way the Toes are turn’d.
The Toe turning outwards on the right side, is the right Foot, and the Toe turning outwards on the left side, is the left.
The different Tracts or Figures made in Dancing, whether forwards, backwards, sideways, or round, will be explain’d by what follows.
The Tract mark’d A, is moving forwards, the Face towards the upper end of the Room.
The Tract B retires or goes back, the Face towards the lower end of the Room.
The Tract F is moving forwards, the Face towards the right side of the Room.
The Tract H retires, the Face towards the left side of the Room.
The Tract I, moves forwards, the Face towards the left side of the Room.
The Tract K retires backwards, the Face towards the right side of the Room.
The Tracts G, move round, and the Tracts M, retire round.
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In moving sideways, the Tract or Line must also be considered as to its two sides, viz. the upper side mark’d X, and the under side mark’d Y. Steps and half Positions, which are on the upper side of the Line, are to be made with the foremost Foot, and those which are on the under side, with the hinder Foot.
The Tracts mark’d N, are moving sideways to the right, towards the lower end of the Room.
The Tracts R, move round sideways to the right.
And the Tracts S, move round sideways to the left.