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White Wheat

Inspired by Keith Rose's Crib Diagrams, for Playford style dances I have added a few extra symbols.

White Wheat is an English Country Dance. It was devised by Hazel Moir in 2005 and published in Colin Hume's Website. It is a proper 3 Couple Longways dance. In this dance the couples are permuted by: 231. The minor set lasts 32 bars. It is in the key: C major. Someone thought this dance was Hard.

The Ottawa ECD site gives this dance a date of 1992, while Colin Hume's website says 2005. Hazel says she wrote it in 2005.

The tune is a traditional welsh one called Bugeilior Gwenith Gwyn, which means Watching the White Wheat. It was performed by Bare Necessities (Earl Gaddis, Mary Lea, Peter Barnes, and Jacqueline Schwab) on the album A New English Ball. The music is used with permission from the Country Dance Society, Boston Centre, Inc.

The animation plays at 87 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.

An online description of the dance may be found here.

The dance contains the following figures: turn single, circle, cast, lead, hands across, cross go below, back to back, hole in the wall (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.

If you wish to link to this animation please see my comments on the perils of youtube. You may freely link to this page, of course, and that should have no problems, but use one of my redirects when linking to the youtube video itself:
https://www.upadouble.info/redirect.php?id=WhiteWheat

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