The Bishop ~ Pat Shaw

The Bishop ~ Barraclough The Bishop ~ Pat Shaw The Bishop ~ Apted

The Bishop ~ Pat Shaw is an English Country Dance. It was devised by Thompsom in 1778 and published in Twenty four Country Dances for the year 1778. It was interpreted by Pat Shaw (website) in about 1965 and published in Another Look at Playford. It is a proper Triple Minor dance. The minor set lasts 32 bars. Someone thought this dance was Easy.

Thompson writes:
The 1st. Gent: cast off and turn the 3d. Lady 1st. Lady cast off and turn the 3d. Gent Lead thrõ the top and cast off hands 6 quite round

Shaw follows the interpretation in The Apted Book except in the first four bars of B1+2, where he follows what Thompson actually wrote.

This interpretation is undated, but presumably was done around the 1960s.

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, gypsy, circle, cast, lead, lead and cast (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.

If you wish to link to this animation please see my comments on the perils of youtube. You may freely link to this page, of course, and that should have no problems, but use one of my redirects when linking to the youtube video itself:
https://www.upadouble.info/redirect.php?id=TheBishop-PShaw

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The dance itself is out of copyright, and is in the public domain. The interpretation is copyright © ~1965 by Pat Shaw. My visualization of this dance is copyright © 2021 by George W. Williams V and is released under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

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