Ore Boggy

O'er Boggie ~ Neal

O'er Boggie ~ Walsh Ore Boggy

Ore Boggy or O'er Boggie ~ Neal is an English Country Dance. It was published by John & William Neal in 1726 in A Choice Collection of Country Dances. It was interpreted by Rich Jackson & George Fogg in 1990. Found in The Playford Assembly. It is a proper Duple Minor dance. The minor set lasts 32 bars. It is in the key: A/C modal.

I initially assumed that "ore boggy" was a cart for carrying ore, but it should actually be spelled "O'er Bogie", Bogie being a river in Scotland. According to Graham Christian there were different marriage requirements on the different sides of the Boggie, and young couples would cross it to make it easier to get married.

Walsh published a different dance to the same name, and Johnson and Thompson published a dance with the same figure but a different tune and name (Take a Dance), and Rutherford published another figure to that name.

The Neals (for Ore Boggy) write:
1st. cu: lead thrô 2d. cu: cast up to their places & turn both hands: 2d cu. lead up thrô 1st. cu: l cast off into their own places, turn both hands: 1st. cu: cross over & half figure thrô 2d. cu: into2d. cu: places Right & left twice:

Johnson writes (for Take a Dance, page 87):

First Cu. lead thro' the 2d cu. cast up and turn Partners 2d Cu. lead thro' the 1st Cu. cast off and turn Partner Cross over and half figure Right and Left

The tune was published with the dance. It was performed by Bare Necessities (Earl Gaddis, Mary Lea, Peter Barnes, and Jacqueline Schwab) on the album By Request. The music is used with permission from the Country Dance Society, Boston Centre, Inc.

The animation plays at 111 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 dance contains the following figures: hand turn (allemande), cast, lead, figure eight, rights and lefts, lead and cast, cross go below (and probably others).

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