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The Duke of Wellington's Dancers dancing the cotillion 'Le Rouët à filer' (the Spinning Wheel) at Townhill Park House on 28th June 2016 during a dress rehearsal. From XXIV New Cotillons, 1768, by James Longman. Music performed by The Birmingham Baroque Collective. Note the feeling of controlled perpetual motion.
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“Ah! Do we have more dancers?” The slight, blonde-haired master cried in delight, clapping his hands together.
“Miss Elizabeth, this is Mr. Hughes. Mr. Hughes, Miss Elizabeth Bennet.”
Leenie Brown fell in love with Jane Austen's works when she first read Sense and Sensibility followed immediately by Pride and Prejudice in her early teens. As the second of five daughters and an avid reader, she has always loved to see where her imagination takes her and to play with and write about the characters she meets along the way. In 2013, these two loves collided when she stumbled upon the world of Jane Austen Fan Fiction. A year later, in 2014, she began writing her own Austen-inspired stories and began publishing them in 2015. Leenie lives in Nova Scotia, Canada with her two teenage boys and her very own Mr. Brown (a wonderful mix of all the best of Darcy, Bingley and Edmund with healthy dose of the teasing Mr. Tillney and just a dash of the scolding Mr. Knightley).
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4 thoughts on “Wordless Wednesday: Le Rouët à Filer”
Delightful post and video… I’m sure our Lizzy had the stamina to do the Cotillion and not be out of breath. Her daily exercises in walking… should assist her in dancing prowess. I love watching these videos. Very entertaining… thanks for sharing.
You’re welcome! I’m so happy to find videos like this that I can watch when I am imagining stories. 🙂
That was lovely. I was thinking how the dancers would have to adjust their steps in order to make that circle stay….circular. Or not whip around their partner. Not the number of steps…that looke deceptively easy.. One, two, three, one-two-three. A little shorty like me would be making bigger steps. They made it look like gliding. Thanks Leenie. looking forward to tomorrow’s post.
🙂 I’m a shorty, too, and not overly graceful. However, I think with some repeated practice I could get moves down, though it might not look so smooth and elegant as these dancers LOL
Delightful post and video… I’m sure our Lizzy had the stamina to do the Cotillion and not be out of breath. Her daily exercises in walking… should assist her in dancing prowess. I love watching these videos. Very entertaining… thanks for sharing.
You’re welcome! I’m so happy to find videos like this that I can watch when I am imagining stories. 🙂
That was lovely. I was thinking how the dancers would have to adjust their steps in order to make that circle stay….circular. Or not whip around their partner. Not the number of steps…that looke deceptively easy.. One, two, three, one-two-three. A little shorty like me would be making bigger steps. They made it look like gliding. Thanks Leenie. looking forward to tomorrow’s post.
🙂 I’m a shorty, too, and not overly graceful. However, I think with some repeated practice I could get moves down, though it might not look so smooth and elegant as these dancers LOL