Green Sleeves and Pudding Pies
Green Sleeves and Pudding Pies is an English Country Dance. It was published by John Playford (website) in 1686 in The Dancing Master, 7th ed.. It was interpreted by Scott Pfitzinger (mod) in about 2019. It is a proper Triple Minor dance. The minor set lasts 48 bars. The tune is a jig.
Playford writes:
First cu. change places and side with the 2. cu. and turn each other, then 2. cu. side and turn again into their places, then each cu. cross over and change places, and go the Figure of 8, then 1. man fall back and turn his own, the rest doing the same. This to the first Strain of the Tune.
First man set to the 2. wo. and go back to back, and 2. man set to the 1. wo. and go back to back, then all four take hands and go half round and fall back, then cross over with your own, while the 2. cu. slip up, and take hands and turn down between the 2. cu. and so lead down between the 3. cu. and cast up and turn your own; The other cu. do the same. This to the second Strain.
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.
An online description of the dance may be found here.
The dance contains the following figures: hand turn (allemande), set, circle, cast, lead, figure eight, siding, back to back, (and probably others).
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