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Performance Programs
Sara & Maynard Johnson
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Music, Minuetts and the Age of Powdered Wigs
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Importance of dancing to colonists
- Few social events
- Some danced every night in winter; it helped heat the house.
- Also a way for young people to meet.
Dances or Assemblies
- opened with minuetts, then went to country dances, Scotch reels, and later, cotillions and Virginia reels
- Minuett Single couple dance an opportunity to show off clothing and dancing ability
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Clothing
- Men’s buttons breeches, waistcoat, frock coat
- Socks with clocks - stockings and garters and single lasted shoes
- Stays and posture and loose women
- Wigs blockheads, macaronis and powder rooms
- Minuett bow and curtsey best foot forward
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Good and bad dancers
- George Washington a good dancer
- Matthew Lyon not admitted
- Colonel Grundy only mention in history as a bad dancer
Dance Masters
- Teach children
- Private lessons for those unfortunate enough not to have learned when young
- Teach newest dances
- Organize and direct dance assemblies party planner
Music:
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Trumpet Minuett, Lady Coventry’s Minuet, Geminiani’s Minuett, Billy Pringle’s Pig, Barberini’s Tambourine, a country dance such as Hunt the Squirrel, a Scotch Reel such as Tullaghorum or Breachanloam.
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