Push about the Jorum ~ Bride
Push about the Jorum ~ Bride is an English Country Dance. It was published by Bride in 1775 in Bride's Favorite Collection of Two Hundred Select Country Dances, London. It was interpreted by George Williams in 2023. It is a proper Triple Minor dance. The minor set lasts 48 bars.
The RSCDS attributes this dance to Skillern, but Bride published the figure first, then Skillern, Longman & Broderip, and Thompson published it as well. The only one I can find is Thompson, who writes:
The 1st. Lady turns the 3d. Gent 1st. Gent. turns the 3d. 1st. Lady Allemand Right & Left with the 2d Gent. at the same time the 1st. Gent. Allemands with the 2d Lady Sett 3 & 3 top & bottom the same sideways hands six round back again lead out sides
The music consists of 3 eight bar strains. To make the first two turns take up a full eight bars I presume the turns need to be turn right followed by a turn left (just like the allemandes and the circle).
I'm going to assume that there's a misprint and that while the 1st Lady is Allemanding the 2nd Man, the 1st man should be allemanding the 3rd Lady (not the 2nd as Thompson writes).
If the 1s both allemande 2s at the same time there would be a crash in the center — unless the 1s were improper? But there's no good way for them to become improper (M2 would need to move into M1's place while M1 was still in it).
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 George Williams (including interpretations like this one) are licenced under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike: CC BY-NC-SA license.
| A1 | 1-8 | W1 right turn M3, and left turn back, W1 ending in 2nd place proper and W2 twirling up |
| A2 | 1-8 | M1 right turn W3, and left turn back, M1 ending in 2nd place proper and M2 twirling up |
| B1 | 1-4 | 1s+1st corners regency allemade right |
| 5-8 | ...and back to the left, M1 ending between 3s, W1 between 2s | |
| B2 | 1-4 | Lines of three across at the ends set twice (1s only set once then move to 2nd place proper) |
| 5-8 | Lines of three on the sides set twice | |
| C1 | 1-4 | Circle six left... |
| 5-8 | ...and back to the left | |
| C2 | 1-4 | 1s lead out sides: 1s lead out between inactive women, loop around them back to center and two hand turn half, facing men |
| 5-8 | 1s lead out between inactive men and loop around them back to 2nd place own side |
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