Cockleshells (up)

Cockleshells is an English Country Dance found in the 1701 version of Playford's Dancing Master. This is a proper duple minor dance "for as many as will". Playford's original dance was a Triple Minor where the 3s did absolutely nothing except act as posts for the 1s to figure 8 around. Charles Bolton adapted the dance to a duple minor in 1985 with the 1s figure eighting around the next 2s. Bolton used a double full figure 8 (Playford says figure 8 and partner turn) with no partner turn, this is a slight modification of Bolton's work with the 1s doing a half figure 8 and then a two hand turn to proper. The figure 8 is done with the current 2s here (because traditional country dances rarely interact outside the minor set) Bolton's adaptations are licensed with a Creative Commons license (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike: CC BY-NC-SA) (See https://creativecommons.org/licenses/ ) by the CDSS Online Library with permission from Charles Bolton. https://www.cdss.org/programs/cdss-news-publications/cdss-online-library/bolton-collection/bolton-collection-retreads . The tune of the same name was published with the dance. It was performed by Bare Necessities (Earl Gaddis, Mary Lea, Peter Barnes, and Jacqueline Schwab) on the album "By Choice". It is used with permission of Country Dance Society, Boston Centre, Inc. The animation plays at 111 counts per minute normally, but the first time through the set the dance is slowed down so people can learn the figures 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 will change each time through the minor set. https://www.upadouble.info/