Jaque Latin or Jacques Latin is a European Contredanse. It was published by G. Willsim in 1755 in Recueil de 24 Contredances Angloise les Plus Usité. It was interpreted by Charles Hendrickson in 1996 and published in English Dances for the Dutch Court. Found in The Playford Assembly. It is a proper Duple Minor dance. The minor set lasts 48 bars. It is in the key: G minor.
Yes, Jacques does appear to be spelled Jaque here.
The tune was a traditional English air called Jack Latin and was published with the dance. It was performed by Bare Necessities (Earl Gaddis, Mary Lea, Peter Barnes, and Jacqueline Schwab) on the album By Request. The music is used with permission from the Country Dance Society, Boston Centre, Inc.
The animation plays at 116 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: set, cast, lead, hands across, hey, lead and cast (and probably others).
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The dance itself is out of copyright, and is in the public domain. The interpretation is copyright © 1996 by Charles Hendrickson. My visualization of this dance is copyright © 2020 by George W. Williams V and is released under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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