Historical Source
The Seven Step (Come, Do The Seven) — Adèle Collier / Bennett Scott (Chappell & Co. Ltd. London, 1930)
Publisher: Adèle Collier (inventor and creator of the dance — also the author of POWERS-1919-FELDMAN-FT 'Feldman's How to Dance the Fox-Trot' 11 years prior; her dancing partner there was Robert Sielle) / Words and music by Bennett Scott / Published by Chappell & Co., Ltd., 50 New Bond Street, London W.1 (with offices in New York and Sydney). Copyright MCMXXX (1930). Plate number 30480. Marked Andante. 4/4 time. Sheet-music-bound pamphlet with the named steps printed at the front and back of the score. Source: Richard Powers collection (POWERS/SevenStep.txt — 47 lines OCR; the OCR is partly degraded by the cover-plate enumeration which includes 'STEP IN WALK / 5T-H STEP IN NATURAL TURN / STEP IN THE SIDE STEP / THE CROSS-STEP IN THE SWING-STEP' as the named-step navigation listing). Per Collier's instruction: 'These four steps can be danced in any order. The Lady's steps are the same as the Gentleman's, commencing with the opposite foot.' The four primary steps are The Walk, The Natural Turn, The Reverse Turn, and The Side Step, with a fifth Swing Step described separately at the end of the booklet. Documents the late-1920s / early-1930s English composed-dance publishing convention of pairing named-figure choreography with sheet music. Adèle Collier's inventor-attribution (rather than the more common arranger-attribution) places the Seven Step in the 1930 ISTD-presidential-endorsement / Cassani-1927-Yale-Blues lineage of inventor-pamphlet composed dances. Has_Step_Detail = Partial (explicit Count 1-2-3-4 notation and foot direction; no CBM/sway/rise-and-fall — 1930 pre-revised-Silvester ballroom vocabulary). Distinct from the Castle 1914 Tango 'Seven Step' (H-GAB-TAN-F0118) which is a Tango figure named 'Seven Step', not the Bennett Scott / Adèle Collier 1930 composed dance. The Seven Step is Collier's only known composed-dance authorship after the 1919 Fox-Trot pedagogical pamphlet.Year: 1930Family: collier-7stepCatalog: local
Dance manual/reference by Adèle Collier (inventor and creator of the dance — also the author of POWERS-1919-FELDMAN-FT 'Feldman's How to Dance the Fox-Trot' 11 years prior; her dancing partner there was Robert Sielle) / Words and music by Bennett Scott / Published by Chappell & Co., Ltd., 50 New Bond Street, London W.1 (with offices in New York and Sydney). Copyright MCMXXX (1930). Plate number 30480. Marked Andante. 4/4 time. Sheet-music-bound pamphlet with the named steps printed at the front and back of the score. Source: Richard Powers collection (POWERS/SevenStep.txt — 47 lines OCR; the OCR is partly degraded by the cover-plate enumeration which includes 'STEP IN WALK / 5T-H STEP IN NATURAL TURN / STEP IN THE SIDE STEP / THE CROSS-STEP IN THE SWING-STEP' as the named-step navigation listing). Per Collier's instruction: 'These four steps can be danced in any order. The Lady's steps are the same as the Gentleman's, commencing with the opposite foot.' The four primary steps are The Walk, The Natural Turn, The Reverse Turn, and The Side Step, with a fifth Swing Step described separately at the end of the booklet. Documents the late-1920s / early-1930s English composed-dance publishing convention of pairing named-figure choreography with sheet music. Adèle Collier's inventor-attribution (rather than the more common arranger-attribution) places the Seven Step in the 1930 ISTD-presidential-endorsement / Cassani-1927-Yale-Blues lineage of inventor-pamphlet composed dances. Has_Step_Detail = Partial (explicit Count 1-2-3-4 notation and foot direction; no CBM/sway/rise-and-fall — 1930 pre-revised-Silvester ballroom vocabulary). Distinct from the Castle 1914 Tango 'Seven Step' (H-GAB-TAN-F0118) which is a Tango figure named 'Seven Step', not the Bennett Scott / Adèle Collier 1930 composed dance. The Seven Step is Collier's only known composed-dance authorship after the 1919 Fox-Trot pedagogical pamphlet. (1930). Imported from local collection.