Dover Pier
as from “The Playford Ball”
A. Simons, 1961
Duple minor longways, 2/4, B flat Major
Preston's Twenty Four Country Dances for the Year 1791 (Preston & Son), 1791. Kentish 'Hops', collected by A. Simons (Ring 0' Bells Publishing)
A1 1-4 Partners set twice. 5-8 All right hands-across half-way and fall back into opposite place. A2 1-8 Repeat A1 with left hands. B1 1-4 1st couple cross, and move down outside into second place whlle 2nd couple move up. 5-8 1st couple turn two-hands once-and-a-half. B2 1-8 All right-and-left, four changes, beginning with partner.
Recording: dover_pier-bnbc7-03.mp3.zip
dover_pier-05-kha-001.mp3.zip
video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIYGjQWazps
NOTES from CDSS:
B1 5-8
The 1st couple should be sure to leave time to fall back to place at the end of the turn.
A simple dance where dancers can enjoy dancing the easy figures well, both on their own and also in relation to the other dancers.
DOVER PIER
The wharfs at Dover are the chief point of departure for
the continent, being but twenty-one miles across the English
channel to Calais in France.