A "Jig" is a lively folk dance, a step dance in which one or two soloists perform rapid, intricate hopping steps to music in 6-over-8 time or a 'Slip-Jig' in 9-over-8 time. Surviving most strongly in irish folk tradition, Jig dances were also popular in Scotland and England in the 15-and 1600's.     Related to modern english clog dances, they were often used as stage dances. The English Bacca Pipes Jig, danced over two crossed clay pipes, closely resembles the Gillie Callum sword dance of Scotland. The Jig was adopted in France at the Court of Sun King Louis XIV, where, as the "Gigue", it became a more subdued dance for couples. In the baroque suite by composers such as Johann Sebastian Bach, the Gigue is the final movement. Jig also refers to any country dance tune in Jig time and to any set dance, a country dance for a group of couples to a Jig tune.
  Ireland dances around the Globe"Dance first. Think later. It's the natural order."
Samuel Beckett (1906-1989), Irish Novelist and Playwright 
"How can we know the dancer from the dance ?"
William Butler Yeats, Irish Poet
In special dedication to:
"JJC", Ireland's Joanie & ERAC's "Lassie" Ariana
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