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Orchesography

Of simple and compound Steps.

John Weaver translation

All

Steps

may be either

simple

or

compound

.

A simple Step, is that which is alone, as all those which hitherto demonstrated; and a compound Step, is, where two or more Steps are join’d together by a Line, and which then are to be reputed as one Step only, as will appear by the following Steps.

Illustration from Orchesography, or, the Art of Dancing The Art of Dancing by Characters and Demonstrative Figures

To practise more easily what has already been taught and demonstrated, you may make Use of the following Tables; where you will find all or the greatest Part of the Steps us’d in Dancing, whether with one Foot, or the other, forwards, backwards, sideways, or turning, as well upon streight Lines, as diametrical.

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