Pinks and Lilies
Pinks and Lilies is an English Country Dance. It was published by Playford (John Young) (website) in 1726 in The Dancing Master, The Third Volume, 2nd ed., London. It was interpreted by Bernard Bentley in 1971 and published in The Fallibroome Collection, Vol. 4. Originally a Triple Minor this version is a proper 3 Couple Longways dance. In this dance the couples are permuted by: 231. The minor set lasts 28 bars.
The first Man cast off below the second Man, and take Hands and fall down between the third Couple, the Woman follows her Partner, and slips between the second Couple
The first Man being between the third Couple, all three take Hands and go quite round; the first Woman being between the second Couple does the same at the same time; the first Man being between the third Couple Hands quite round, the Women do the same at the same time tili then he come in the middle and meets his Partner between the second and third Couple and turn her; The first Man does the same between the second Couple as before.
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 dance contains the following figures: hand turn (allemande), circle, cast, lead, hey, hey for three (and probably others).
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The dance itself is out of copyright, and is in the public domain. The interpretation is copyright © 1971 by Bernard Bentley. My visualization of this dance is copyright © 2021 by George W. Williams V and is released under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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