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Updated: May 21, 2025
Et comme les Anglais ne scanroient Que danser les Anglaises, Bonaparte leur montrera Les figures Françaises. Allons mes amis de grand rond, En avant, face a face, Français le bas, restez d'a plomb, Anglais changez les places. Vous Monsieur Pitt vous balancez, Formez la chaine Anglaise, Pas de cotè croisez chassez C'est la danse Française!
We therefore subjoin a Glossary of all such words and expressions as have long since been universally accepted as the accredited phraseology of the Ball-room. A vos places, back to your own places. A la fin, at the end. A droite, to the right. A gauche, to the left. Balancez, set to your partners. Balancez aux coins, set to the corners.
Top and opposite couples hands across; then back again; balancez and turn partners; chaine des dames; half promenade across; half right and left to places. Top gentleman advances and retreats twice. Balancez to corners and turn, each lady passing to her next neighbour's place. Having changed your partner, all promenade quite round.
Balancez quatre en ligne, four dancers set in a line, joining hands, as in La Poule. Balancez en moulinet, gentlemen and their partners give each other right hands across, and balancez in the form of a cross. Balancez et tour des mains, all set to partners, and turn to places. Ballotez, do the same step four times without changing your place. Chaine Anglaise, opposite couples right and left.
The Polka is danced with a circular movement, like the Valse; in each bar you half turn, so that, by the end of the second bar, you have brought your partner completely round. It was at first customary to promenade your partner round the room, doing a kind of balancez to each other in the Polka step before commencing the valse figure.
The good people of the borough had scarcely a chance, however, to get their eyes thoroughly open, when, just as it wanted half a minute of noon, the rascal bounced, as I say, right into the midst of them; gave a chassez here, and a balancez there; and then, after a pirouette and a pas-de-zephyr, pigeon-winged himself right up into the belfry of the House of the Town Council, where the wonder-stricken belfry-man sat smoking in a state of dignity and dismay.
First couple promenade round inside the quadrille. Four ladies advance, courtesy to each other, and retire; four gentlemen advance, bow, and retire. Balancez and turn partners. Grand chain half way round. All promenade to places, and turn partners. Second and side couples repeat as before. Promenade all round for finale. The Lancers Quadrille is perhaps the most graceful and animated of any.
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