Summary

• This is a fast and energetic dance with repeated entrances and exits for all the company although the focus is on the man who begins the number. It features elaborate bows of introduction and the placing of forefingers immediately above the head (to represent the horns of the Devil). Dancers enter and exit picking up movement material from one another, performing in unison both paralleling and reflecting one another’s gestures. There is a feeling of confrontation and claiming the girl.
• Just as the words ‘Pleased to meet you’ are illustrated by courteous bows so, for example, the words ‘made damn sure that Pilate washes his hands and sealed His fate’ are depicted by a solo dancer ‘washing’ his hands round one another.
• The final section of this dance is a quick reprise of all eight preceding numbers.
• The reprise opens with the Rooster strut followed by a girl lifted by the two men at the end of ‘Little Red Rooster’.
• The dancers then perform in quick succession the minuet-style movement from ‘Lady Jane’; duet material from ‘Not Fade Away’; the face-slap from ‘As Tears Go By’; the male soloist's encounter with the women from ‘Paint It Black’; the woman's leap into the four men's arms from ‘Ruby Tuesday’; and duet material from ‘Play With Fire’.
• Finally, after a reprise of the elaborate introductions by the devil, the soloist of the first piece goes into the ‘Rooster strut’ and, as he adjusts his tie yet again, the lights go out.