Halfe Hannikin ~ Cook

Halfe Hannikin ~ Cook is an English Country Dance. It was published by John Playford (website) in 1651 in The English Dancing Master. It was interpreted by Tom Cook sometime before 2025-01-06 and published in Colin Hume's Website. It is a Circle as many as will dance. The minor set lasts 24 bars. It is in the key: G Major.

There is a record that a dance with this name was danced in 1623, but who knows if it used the same figures.

In Sharp's adaptation (and the original Playford text) people only move half a position, and don't skip anyone. This leaves the top man and bottom woman out for the next minor set of the dance

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.

The tune was published by Playford with the dance; and was synthesized by Colin Hume's software.

The animation plays at 113 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 (no music plays during this slow set). 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.

The dance contains the following figures: hand turn (allemande), set, turn single, siding (and probably others).

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The dance itself is out of copyright, and is in the public domain. I do not have a date for the interpretation, so it may be under copyright. My visualization of this dance is copyright © 2025 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.