Summary

• This piece takes a leap from the courtly era to the jive era of the early 20th century. It is an exuberant and lively dance with more free and unrestrained movement travelling over the stage space with dominant circular patterns, advancing and retreating. This piece is a total contrast to Lady Jane.
• There is a male/female divide across the dance space. Suggesting leader and friends. The dancers fight for attention. Their actions are bold, sharp and they are trying to impress.
• The male declares his love and states his expectations of her. We have a return of the strutting male movements introduced in LRR but are subtler and focus on abstracted wing flapping which was typical of popular dance in the jive era. There are also traces of abstracted courtly dance movements that links to the previous piece. The two separate and love fades away in contrast to the male expectations.
• The group disperse, walking backwards off the stage leaving only one couple. Their duet is based on social dancing but the girl expends only a minimum of energy while the man shows off. At the end he departs with three other men while the girl, upstage left, traces a vertical wave of air with her hand as she crouches down and in the diminishing light fades away.
• • “A joyous, witty piece requiring dancers with “rubber legs and ‘elastic bodies’ to represent the familiar cocky strutting of the early Mick Jagger.”