Kingsale

Kingsail

Kingsale or Kingsail is an English Country Dance. It was published by Walsh in 1732, London. It was interpreted by Charles Bolton (website) in 1991 and published in Retreads Vol.5. It is a proper Duple Minor dance. The minor set lasts 32 bars.

Walsh writes:
All four lead up and back again, then lead to the Wall and back again Then the 1st Cu. cast off and figure in the 2d Cu. Place then back to back and turn hands twice round the two Men lead thro' the two Wo. then the 1st Cu. lead thro' the 2d Cu. and cast off

The tune was published with the dance. It was performed by the Odd Sundays Garage Band (Judy Linsenberg, Shira Kammen and Patti Cobb). The music is used with permission from the Odd Sundays Garage Band.

The animation plays at 93 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 (no music plays during this slow set). 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.

A11-4All lead up a double, turn and lead back
5-8Lead neighbor out to wall, turn, and lead back
A21-21s cast down as 2s lead up
3-81s cross up as 2s cast down full double figure eight
B11-4Partner back to back
5-8Two hand turn twice round
B21-4Men lead between women and cast back as women move outside and lead back
5-81s lead up and cast back as 2s cast down and lead up

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.

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The dance itself is out of copyright, and is in the public domain. The interpretation is copyright © 1991 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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