Jemmey's Fancy ~ Thompson
Jemmey's Fancy ~ Thompson is an English Country Dance. It was published by Thompson in about 1757 in Thompson's Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, Vol I, London. It was interpreted by George Williams in 2023. It is a proper Triple Minor dance. The minor set lasts 40 bars.
Thompson writes:
The 1st. and 2nd. Cu. hands across Left hands back again 1st. Cu. cast off. the Man hands round with the 3rd. and the Wo. with the 2nd. the 1st. Man heys with the 3rd. Cu. and the Wo. with the 2nd. Cu. Set contrary corners and turn lead thro' Bottom & Top and turn
Thompson appears to give 8 bars for hands across, while modern dancers do this in 4.
The set and turn corners leaves the 1s improper, so after they lead through bottom and top they need to turn half to get proper.
That leaves us with 40 bars when Thompson thinks it should take 48. The music consists of two 8 bar strains; I suggest the tune be played AABBB.
On the other hand lead thro' Bottom & Top and turn is something I would think would take 12 bars. I'm going to turn it into 16 by making the "turn" into a right turn followed by a left.
The music consists of two 8 bar strains, the dance needs 48 bars. I suggest AABBAB.
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 dances of George Williams (including interpretations like this one) are licenced under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike: CC BY-NC-SA license.
| A1 | 1-4 | 1s+2s right hands across... |
| 5-8 | ...and left hands back | |
| A2 | 1-4 | 1s long cast down as 2s lead up |
| 5-8 | W1+2s, M1+3s circle three left | |
| B1 | 1-8 | 1s pass 1st corners left to starts heys for three with the end couples |
| B2 | 1-4 | 1s set to 1st corners and two hand turn them |
| 5-8 | 1s set to 2nd corners and two hand turn them (1s ending improper, in the middle, facing down) | |
| B3 | 1-3 | 1s lead below 3s and cast back to middle |
| 4-6 | 1s lead above 2s and cast back to middle | |
| 7-8 | 1s two hand turn half to proper |
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