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Cotillion
Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette, 11th September 1890

16 bars	FIRST CHANGE: Dance whole circle right - and back again
4 bars	The head couples move to the front of the couple on their right and rigadon, the figure ends with everyone in two lines across the set
4 bars	All join hands in rings of four and circle once around, the figure ends with everyone in two lines across the set
8 bars	The head couples rigadon, then take two hands with the person they are facing and chasse ouvert and back again, then everyone turns away towards their partner and falls back into two lines across the set
8 bars	Everybody contretems forward and rigadon then turn their partners back to their original home positions
4 bars	The side couples move to the front of the couple on their right and rigadon, the figure ends with everyone in two lines across the set
4 bars	All join hands in rings of four and circle once around, the figure ends with everyone in two lines across the set
8 bars	The side couples rigadon, then take two hands with the person they are facing and chasse ouvert and back again, then everyone turns away towards their partner and falls back into two lines across the set
8 bars	Everybody contretems forward and rigadon then turn their partners back to their original home positions
Continue with 2nd change, main figure, third change and so on

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