The Gloucester - Chivers

The Gloucester - Chivers is an English Country Dance. It was devised by G.M.S. Chivers in 1821 and published in The Dancer's Guide, London. It was interpreted by George Williams in 2021. It is a Four Face Four dance. The minor set lasts 32 bars.

Chivers writes:
Advance and retire in two lines — all set to partnes — chain figure of eight, to places, and turn partners the two lines lead round and exchange places (four parts or thirty-two bars).

Most of this is fairly self-explanatory, but I'm not sure what he means by "the two lines lead round and exchange places". The obvious thing is for each line across to join hands and loop clockwise around the set. More problematic, it puts people facing the wrong way, and in the wrong place (men in women's places, and vice versa) so I've added a two hand turn half to fix that.

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.

A11-4Lines of four forward and back
5-8Face partner and set twice
A2+B11-12Grand chain (right and left) all the way round, and when you meet your partner...
13-16...Two hand turn
B21-8Take hands on the sides, loop clockwise half-way round the minor set, two hand turn partner half to face the next couple

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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