The performer's feet rarely leave the ground for long, as the step is fast, typically performed at a speed around 116 at feiseanna. Light jigs Ī light jig is the second-fastest of all jigs. The following distinction is primarily observed in modern competitive Irish dance and should not be confused with the general notion of how the jigs are played and classified among traditional Irish musicians. As with most other types of dance tunes in Irish music, at a session or a dance it is common for two or more jigs to be strung together in a set, flowing on without interruption. The most common structure of a jig is two eight-bar parts, performing two different steps, each once on the right foot, and one on the left foot. It is transcribed in compound metre, being 6Ĩ time. The jig is second in popularity only to the reel in traditional Irish dance it is popular but somewhat less common in Scottish country dance music. Ireland and Scotland ĭuring the 17th century the dance was adopted in Ireland and Scotland, where it was widely adapted, and the jig is now most often associated with these countries, especially Ireland. Of dances, solo (suitable for jigs), paired, round, country or courtly’ in Playford's Dancing Master (1651) ‘the dance game in “Kemps Jegg” is a typical scenario from a dramatic jig and it is likely that the combination of dance metre for steps and non-metrical passages for pantomime indicates how a solo or ensemble jig might have been danced by stage players.’ Later the dance began to be associated with music particularly in 6Ĩ time. It was known as a dance in 16th-century England, often in 12Ĩ time, and the term was used for a post-play entertainment featuring dance in early modern England, but which ‘probably employed a great variety
The use of “jig” in Irish dance derives from the Irish jigeánnai, itself borrowed from the Old English giga meaning ‘old dance’. The term jig was probably derived from the French giguer, meaning ‘to jump’ or the Italian giga. English Elizabethan clown Will Kempe dancing a jig from London to Norwich in 1600
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