Come Ashore, Jolly Tar is a Scottish Country Dance. It is a traditional dance with no clear origin. It was interpreted by RSCDS in 1931 and published in RSCDS Book 7. It is R8×32 2C/4C 1s cross, an improper duple minor longways dance. R32.
RSCDS Book 7 says this was "collected in Angus and Perthshire, and there called Jacky Tar."
Thompson, in 1803, published a dance called "Jack Tar's Delight" but its figure does not match.
Wilson, in 1816, published a dance called "Jackey Tarr", but its figure does not match.
The animation plays at 120 counts per minute normally, but the first time through the set the dance will often be slowed down so people can learn the moves more readily. Men are drawn as rectangles, women as ellipses. Each couple is drawn in its own color, however the border of each dancer indicates what role they currently play so the border color may change each time through the minor set.
An online description of the dance may be found here.
The dance contains the following figures: hand turn (allemande), set, hands across, rights and lefts (and probably others).
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I do not have a publication date for the dance and do not know whether it is under copyright or not. The interpretation is copyright © 1931 by RSCDS. My visualization of this dance is copyright © 2024 by George W. Williams V and is released under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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