Corn Rigs

Corn Rigs is a Scottish Country Dance. It is a traditional dance with no clear origin. It was interpreted by RSCDS in 1927 and published in RSCDS Book 4. It is R8×32 2C/4C, a proper Duple Minor dance. R32.

The RSCDS attributes this dance to Wilson, but I have my doubts.

In 1816 Wilson in A Companion to the Ball Room, London, gives three figures to this tune, in 1830 Smyth in A Pocket Companion... gives a figure, as do Anderson (1897) and Allan (~1900). But none of those figures seems to match the RSCDS figure.

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.

1-81s cast, go down outside the set, take a peek, cast back
9-161s full figure eight around the 2s
17-241s lead down the middle, turn, lead back
25-32Poussette

If you find what you believe to be a mistake in this animation, please leave a comment on youtube explaining what you believe to be wrong. If I agree with you I shall do my best to fix it.

If you wish to link to this animation please see my comments on the perils of youtube. You may freely link to this page, of course, and that should have no problems, but use one of my redirects when linking to the youtube video itself:
https://www.upadouble.info/redirect.php?id=CornRigs

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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 out of copyright in the US, but I'm not sure of other jurisdictions. My visualization of this dance is copyright © 2022 by George W. Williams V and is released under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

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