The Goose and Gridiron

The Goose and Gridiron is an English Country Dance. It was published by Thompson in 1768 in Twenty Four Country Dances for the Year 1768. It was interpreted by Tom Cook in 1975 and published in Come Let's Be Merry. Found in The Playford Assembly. Originally proper this version is a 3 Couple Longways dance with the 1s, 3s improper. In this dance the couples are permuted by: 231. The minor set lasts 32 bars.

Thompson writes:

Cast off one Cu. Lead thro the bottom and cast up Lead thro' the top & cast off six hands round Right and Left

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.

The dance contains the following figures: hand turn (allemande), circle, cast, lead, figure eight, rights and lefts (and probably others).

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The dance itself is out of copyright, and is in the public domain. The interpretation is copyright © 1975 by Tom Cook. My visualization of this dance is copyright © 2019 by George W. Williams V and is released under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

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