Jockey to the Fair

This dance was written by Paul Handford, foreman of Thames Valley International.

Chorus

Each corner, in turn, performs the following sequence to the "B" music:

• A sidestep figure (closed sidestep left, double step, closed sidestep right, double step) in place.
• Two double steps to cross to your corner's place
• four plain capers to turn around (over your right shoulder)
• two of "something distinctive" to move face-to-face with your corner in the middle.
• Two hop-backs and foot-together-jump back to your corner's position.

"Something distinctive" is:

1. struts (swagger-step) ("B" music)
2. plain capers ("B" music)
3. forrie capers ("beetle crushers") ("C" music)
4. whole capers ("upright capers") ("C" music)

Bacon-Style Notation

(This notation is from Thames Valley International's TVI-Invented Dances page. In the event of discrepancies, the TVI page is the authoritative source.)

(A.B3)2(A.C3)2

CF: Long HR

DF: ss/4/ss/4/ in place; 4/4/ to cross corners; 4PC in opp. cnr.: out, right in, in. Remaining music, track into centre and back out as follows:
DF1: lr/salute/hb/sj.
DF2: RL/RL/hb/sj.
DF3: HC/HC/hb/sj.
DF4: UC/UC/hb/sj. As 3rd. couples withdraw, all make circle for HR.

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Last modified: 1996/04/24 15:14:04 by jcb@mit.edu