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gigue

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gigue: see jig jig, dance of English origin that is performed also in Ireland and Scotland. It is usually a lively dance, performed by one or more persons, with quick and irregular steps. When the jig was introduced to the United States, it was often danced in minstrel shows.
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gigue

Dance derived from the English jig that was popular as a lively court dance in 17th-century Europe. Originally a solo dance, in its courtly form it was danced by couples in formal ballet style to music in ⁶⁄₈ or ¹²⁄₈ time. As a musical form, it became the last movement in the standard suite.
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The next difficult variation is Variation 7, which is even less difficult than the rhythmically similar Gigue from French Suite No.
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He made Gigue in Balanchine's Mozartiana memorable with his precision footwork, and he endowed Puck of A Midsummer Night's Dream with gleeful mischievousness.
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