Dancing "Almost Anything" at Bedford Tuesday Playford
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During the hiatus in dancing caused by the Covid 19 pandemic in 2020 & 2021, Kevin Prigmore presented on YouTube numerous videos of himself (with or without other members of the band "Kelly's Eye") playing folk dance music. One of these videos is the music for the dance "New Anything". The track is too short to be useful for the triple minor dance "New Any-thing" (published by John Playford's successors, probably in 1710), so I wrote this three couple dance.
3 couple longways set.
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Kevin Prigmore (file size 2.0 MB)
. This track is 6x32bars
at 98bpm. It uses St Catherine as a second tune. Note that it has no introduction at all.. This track
is 2+6x32bars and again at 98bpm. It uses Blenheim House as a second tune.A score can be found at The Session
| bars | |
| A1 1‑2 | 1st & 2nd couples clap: own hands, partner's right hand, own hands, partner's left hand, |
| 3‑4 | 1st & 2nd couples turn single, |
| 5‑8 | Top two couples (1s & 2s) two changes of a square hey giving hands. |
| A2 1‑4 | 1st couple (now in middle places, improper) & 3rd couple do clapping and turn single (as in A1 1‑4), |
| 5‑8 | Bottom two couples (1s & 3s) two changes of a square hey giving hands. |
| B1 1‑4 | Couple at top of set (2s) half figure of eight
down through middle couple (3s) to own side of the set, while bottom couple (1s) back-to-back partner; |
| 5‑8 | Middle couple (3s) half figure of eight
down through bottom couple (1s) to own side of the set, while top couple (2s) back-to-back partner. All are now proper and facing partner across the set. |
| B2 1‑4 | Middle couple (3s) take nearest hand of the neighbour above them, then come up the centre, cast away from partner at top of set, and go back to middle places. For this movement the people at top of set, M2 & W2, act as gateposts turning with M3 & W3; |
| 5‑8 | Middle couple (3s) take nearest hand of the neighbour below them, then go down the centre, cast away from partner at bottom of set, and back to middle places, with people at bottom of set (M1 & W1) acting as gateposts. |
| Repeat twice more | |