duple minor longways
Bishop 2/4 D major 1788 BI p. 65
B2. Pousette is CCW, with current first diagonal dancers backing up to start.
duple minor longways
Jack Latin Traditional 2/4 G major 1700s BII p. 66
duple minor longways
6/8 E minor BII p. 85
Beer:
Background: Designed as a less strenuous version of “The Spaniard,” from Thompson, 1777.
Tune: The Minor Spaniard, by Jenny Beer. A minor key variation on “The Spaniard” tune.
duple minor longways
3/2 F major BI p. 137
3-couple longways
Goff Hall Dan Lanier 2/4 A major 1984 BII p. 5
duple minor longways
Millison’s Jegge Playford 6/8 D minor 1651 BII p. 63
Friendly & Sackett:
Our local dance group in Ashland is part of a network of groups in Oregon, The Heather and the Rose Country Dancers. The H&R newsletter is titled Progressed and Improper. This inspired us to write a dance where the Is would end improper to start the next round, allowing dancers to experience dancing from both sides of the set. As we worked with the concept, we expanded the idea to include the turn as a couple to give dancers further opportunities to play with roles they may not be used to. The dance became, in a sense, a choreographic statement of the way we approach the dance form. Many thanks to Bruce Hamilton for the title.
⚠️ Don’t forget to mention that the 1s swap sides each time through the dance!
Friendly & Sackett:
For the turn as a couple in B1 bars 3-4, the 2s, who are above, always go down and to the inside of the set and under the joined hands while the 1s go up and to the outside of the set. It is similar to a California twirl without the feeling of a twirler and a twirlee.
duple minor longways
John Whelan 3/4 B minor 1985 NIB · Sheet music ↗
Camus:
- This dance uses a crossover setting step similar to (the West Coast interpretation of) Irish Lamentation. It’s the cross-step waltz basic: Dancers start by crossing their right foot over their left. Starting the whole dance with the R foot may help.
- It’s nice to have a lot of space for this dance, both up and down the set and across.
3-couple longways
Rachel Bell 2/2 C major 2017 BIII p. 109
duple minor longways
Jim & Judy’s Wedding Larry Unger 3/4 D major 1988 NIB
A1/A2: The back to backs here look like this: two waltz steps passing other corner forward, one waltz step back to meet corner shoulder to shoulder by the other shoulder and catch eyes, then turn single away from corner back to place.
duple minor longways (originally published improper)
2/2 D minor BI p. 20
B1. Can explicitly note that the two hand turns have different speeds or let dancers figure it out. B2. Can be a double figure eight for more experienced dancers.
| Title | Choreographer | Year | Formation | Key | Meter | Tune | Composer | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| First Half | ||||||||
| Knole Park | Voight | 1809 | duple minor longways | D major | 2/4 | — | Bishop | BI p. 65 |
| Jaque Latin | G. Wilsim | 1755 | duple minor longways | G major | 2/4 | Jack Latin | Traditional | BII p. 66 |
| The Minor Spaniard | Jenny Beer | 2000 | duple minor longways | E minor | 6/8 | — | — | BII p. 85 |
| Well Hall | Playford | 1679/1701 | duple minor longways | F major | 3/2 | — | — | BI p. 137 |
| The Astonished Archaeologist | Philippe Callens | 1992 | 3-couple longways | A major | 2/4 | Goff Hall | Dan Lanier | BII p. 5 |
| Impropriety | Brooke Friendly & Chris Sackett | 1999 | duple minor longways | D minor | 6/8 | Millison’s Jegge | Playford | BII p. 63 |
| Trip to Skye | Renee Camus | 2024 | duple minor longways | B minor | 3/4 | — | John Whelan | NIB |
| Second Half | ||||||||
| Alternates | ||||||||
| Peridot Ring | Susan Kevra | 2017 | 3-couple longways | C major | 2/2 | — | Rachel Bell | BIII p. 109 |
| Sunlight Through Draperies | Tom Roby | 2002 | duple minor longways | D major | 3/4 | Jim & Judy’s Wedding | Larry Unger | NIB |
| Childgrove | Playford | 1701 | duple minor longways | D minor | 2/2 | — | — | BI p. 20 |