3 Men in a Boat

(To say nothing of the Dog)

Three Men in a Boat

3 Men in a Boat or (To say nothing of the Dog) is an English Country Dance. It was devised by Fried de Metz Herman (website) in 2000 and published in Serendipity. It is a 3 Couple Longways dance with the 2s improper. In this dance the couples are permuted by: 312. The minor set lasts 32 bars.

THE CHIEF beauty of this book lies not so much in its literary style, or in the extent and usefulness of the information it conveys, as in its simple truthfulness. Its pages form the record of events that really happened, All that has been done is to colour them; and, for this, no extra charge has been made. George and Harris and Montmorency are not poetic ideals, but things of flesh and blood — especially George, who weighs about twelve stone. Other works may excel this in depth of thought and knowledge of human nature: other books my rival it in originalithy and size, but for hopeless and incurable veracity, nothing yet discovered can surpass it. This, more than all its other charms, will, it is felt, make the volume precious in the eye of the earnest reader; and will lend additional weight to the lesson that the story teaches.

Three Men in a Boat
— Jerome K. Jerome
London, 1889

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 dance contains the following figures: hand turn (allemande), set, turn single, gypsy, circle, figure eight, hands across (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.

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