Zorinsky ~ Preston
Zorinski
Zorinsky ~ Preston or Zorinski is an English Country Dance. It was published by Preston in 1796 in Preston's Twenty-Four Country Dances for the Year 1796, London. It was interpreted by George Williams in 2023. It is a proper Duple Minor dance. The minor set lasts 32 bars.
Preston writes:
Sett & half right & left the same back again, lead down the middle up again cast off & Allemande.
The final allemande is probably intended only for the 1s in the original, but I follow Jacqueline Schwab's interpretation in giving it to both couples.
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 | Set twice to partner |
| 5-8 | Face partner: two changes of rights and lefts | |
| A2 | 1-4 | Set twice to neighbor |
| 5-8 | Face neighbor: two changes of rights and lefts | |
| B1 | 1-8 | 1s lead down the middle, turn alone, lead up to top and cast down as 2s lead up |
| B2 | 1-4 | All partner right hand turn, ending with woman turning under |
| 5-8 | All partner left hand turn, ending with woman turning under |
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