The New Exchange

The New Exchange or Durham Stable is an English Country Dance. It was published by John Playford (website) in 1651 in The English Dancing Master. It was interpreted by Scott Pfitzinger (website) in about 2019. It is a proper 3 Couple Longways dance. It is a USA dance. The dance lasts 96 bars. The tune is a jig. It is in the key: G Major.

Note: The New Royal Exchange is a completely different dance.

Playford writes:

Lead up all forwards and back, set and change places That again First man set to his own wo. the 2. as much, the 3 turn his own Third man set to his own, the 2. as much, the first man turn his own
Sides all, set and change places That again First man and last wo. meet and stand, first wo. and last man as much, first man and last wo. change places, the other change, the 2. change with his own. This Change back again to your places
Amrs all, set and change places That again First Cu. go down between the 2. the third come up between the first, the 2. come down between the 3. set and turn S. All this again to your places

At the end of B1+2 of part 3 Playford has "set and turn single" which takes 4 bars. But we've already used 6 bars to slip up and down (and we've only got 8 bars). I have changed it to a "set".

The animation plays at 120 counts per minute. Men are drawn as rectangles, women as ellipses. Each couple is drawn in its own color.

The dance contains the following figures: USA, hand turn (allemande), set, siding, arming, (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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The dance itself is out of copyright, and is in the public domain. The interpretation is copyright © ~2019 by Scott Pfitzinger. And is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike: CC BY-NC-SA license. My visualization of this dance is copyright © 2021 by George W. Williams V and is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike: CC BY-NC-SA license.