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--- ins_brighton_camp [2016/06/23 19:01]
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+++ ins_brighton_camp [2022/12/17 03:34] (current)
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-MUSIC.	MOVEMENTS
+====== Brighton Camp ======
-A.	First couple, with crossed hands, casts off and leads up the middle to position, followed by all the other couples. Fig.24 (p.40).
-B1.	First couple swings down the middle and takes up position below the last couple (progressive). Fig.2 (p.28).
-B2.	All couples swing. Fig. 1 (p.28).
+Longways set for 3 to 6 couples.
+Tune: Brighton Camp
+<code>
+A.	C1, with crossed hands, casts off and leads up the middle to position,
+        followed by all the other couples.
+B1.	C1 swings down the middle and takes up position below the last couple (progressive).
+B2.	All couples swing.
+</code>
+This dance involves a partner swing, a move unknown in traditional English Country Dances
+but familiar to any North American contra or square dancer.
+Country Dance which people were dancing in England in ~1909. Cecil Sharp recorded it
+and published it in "The Country Dance Book" (Part 1) published in 1909.  It is a
+proper longways set "for as many as will",
+Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KytJVrTyKTA

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