Half Panickin'

Half Panickin' or Half Hannikin Meets Lord of Carnarvan is an English Country Dance. It was published by John Playford (website) in 1651 in The English Dancing Master, London. It was interpreted by Bob Lilley in 2013 and published in Bob Lilley's Nightmarish (and Other) Dances. It is a proper Duple Minor dance. It is a double progression dance. It is a mixer. The minor set lasts 32 bars. It is in the key: G Major. Someone thought this dance was Very Hard.

The title is a spoof on "Halfe Hannikin".

Playford writes:

Lead up all a D. forwards and back That again Sides all Turn your own First man stand alone, and the last wo. stand alone, the rest of the men take all the next we.

Lead up as before Sides all Turn your we. First man take 2. man with his left hand, last wo. taking the next wo. with her right hand.

Lead up as before Sides all Turn your we. Then the 2. man stand alone, the first man take third man, last wo. taking the next change thus every time till you come to your own places.

Everyone is active, except that in a longways set two people will be unable to do the diagonal changes.

The animation plays at 120 counts per minute normally, but the first time through the set the dance will often be slowed down so people can learn the moves more readily. Men are drawn as rectangles, women as ellipses. Each couple is drawn in its own color, however the border of each dancer indicates what role they currently play so the border color may change each time through the minor set.

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The dance itself is out of copyright, and is in the public domain. The interpretation is copyright © 2013 by Bob Lilley. My visualization of this dance is copyright © 2024 by George W. Williams V and is released under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Lead up all a D. forwards and back That again	Sides all Turn your own First man stand alone, and the last wo. stand alone, the rest of the men take all the next we.

Lead up as before	Sides all Turn your we. First man take 2. man with his left hand, last wo. taking the next wo. with her right hand.

Lead up as before	Sides all Turn your we. Then the 2. man stand alone, the first man take third man, last wo. taking the next change thus every time till you come to your own places.