I Often for my Jenny Strove ~ Bolton

I Often for my Jenny Strove ~ Bentley I Often for my Jenny Strove ~ Bolton

I Often for my Jenny Strove ~ Bolton is an English Country Dance. It was published by Henry Playford (website) in 1690 in The Dancing Master, 8th ed.. It was interpreted by Charles Bolton (website) in 2000 and published in Retreads Vol.8. Originally a Triple Minor this version is a proper 3 Couple Longways dance. In this dance the couples are permuted by: 312. The minor set lasts 32 bars.

Playford writes:
The first man cross over with his Partner into the 2. cu. place, and all four lead up hands a-breast, then fall back and all four turn S. Then cross over below the 3. cu. and all four lead up hands a-bbreast, then the 1. cu. cast up into the 2. cu. place and turn S. then go the Figure above through the 1. cu. and turn your Partner then the Figure through the 3. cu. and cast up into the 2. cu. place and turn your Partner.

Originally a triple minor.

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 dances of Charles Bolton (including interpretations like this one) are licenced under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike: CC BY-NC-SA license by the CDSS Online Library.
An online description of the dance may be found here.

A11-41s cross, go below 2s and move up into a line of four between them
5-8Line of four lead up a double, fall back bending the line
A21-41s cross, go below 3s and move up into a line of four between them
5-8Line of four lead up, fall back bending the line
B11-41s lead up, and half figure eight up around top couple (3s move down)
5-8All partner two hand turn, end couples finish facing in
B21-41s half figure eight down as ends neighbor change and set to partner
5-8All partner two hand turn

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The dance itself is out of copyright, and is in the public domain. The interpretation is copyright © 2000 by Charles Bolton. And is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike: CC BY-NC-SA license. My visualization of this dance is copyright © 2021 by George W. Williams V and is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike: CC BY-NC-SA license.

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