Strawberrys and Cream - Sancho
Strawberries and Cream ~ Sancho
Strawberrys and Cream - Sancho or Strawberries and Cream ~ Sancho is an English Country Dance. It was devised by Ignatius Sancho in 1779 and published in Twelve Country Dances for the Year 1779. It was interpreted by George Williams in 2025. It is a proper Triple Minor dance. The minor set lasts 24 bars.
Sancho writes:
Turn your Partner with the Right hand and cast off one Cu. turn your Partner with the Left hand and Gentn. cast off the Lady cast up set 3 and 3 top & bottom set 3 and 3 sideways the Gentn. strike the whole figure at bottom the Lady at the same time at top and foot to your partner
The music consists of three 4 bar strains.
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.
An online description of the dance may be found here.
| A1 | 1-4 | 1s quick right hand turn and cast down as 2s wait and lead up |
| A2 | 1-4 | 1s quick left hand turn and cast left (man down, lady up), finishing between end couples |
| B1 | 1-4 | Lines of three across set twice (the 1s set once and finish 2nd place proper) |
| B2 | 1-4 | Lines of three on the sides set twice |
| C1+2 | 1-6 | 1s look right (man down, lady up) and full figure eight through end couples |
| 7-8 | 1s set |
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