Ramsgate Assembly

Ramsgate Assembly is an English Country Dance. It was devised by Thomas Budd in 1795. It was interpreted by A. Simons in 1972 and published in Kentish Hops, Fourth Picking. Found in The Playford Ball. Mentioned in the article A Trip to Netherfield. 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 48 bars. It is in the key: F major. Someone thought this dance was Intermediate.

Budd writes:

The 1st. & 2d Cu: set & half right & left set & half right & left back again lead down the middle up again Allemande turn opposite corners

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 123 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), set, cast, lead, rights and lefts, box the gnat, swat the flea, down the middle and back (and probably others).

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 © 1972 by A. Simons. My visualization of this dance is copyright © 2020 by George W. Williams V and is released under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

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