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(Photo Ian Anderson)
1979 Silver Jubilee
Sidmouth I.F.F.
Dance performed: The Captain’s Dance

In Gaspé, sailors had to outdo each other in agility to win the heart of their beloved.

1974 Sidmouth International Folk Festival (England)
Dance performed: the Clog
According to some authors the gigue, in its original popular form, used to be a couple dance introduced to the English Court under the reign of Queen Elizabeth I.

(Photo Ian Anderson)
1979 Silver Jubilee
Sidmouth I.F.F.
Dance performed : le Cotillon du Saguenay
From the Saguenay-Lac St-Jean region, the gigue steps bring a lively touch to this choreography.

( photo Bryan Smith)
1974 Sidmouth International Festival of Folk Arts, England
Dance performed : le Valse Lancier (Lancers Waltz)
The dance figures adopt different names from one quadrille to the other. In the Lanciers valsés, for instance, they are successively called tiroirs, lignes, moulinets, visites and lanciers. (A lancer was a cavalryman armed with a lance !)

( photo Bryan Smith)
1974 Sidmouth International Folk Festival
Dance performed : Castor-P’tits Chars suite(Beaver-Country Trains suite)
The Beaver Dance was popular in several localities of the Lac St-Jean region. The name comes from its foot movement, reminiscent of the swaying of a beaver’s tails.
The P’tits Chars, also from that region, reproduces with its foot rubbing moves the rhythmic sounds of a country train.