Issue 2336: Argyll

Object: Argyll (Dance)
Submitter: Stephen Webb (SJW)
Assigned to: —
Priority: Normal
Disposition: Needs help
Description: In the Extra Info there is reference to this dance being taught by Jean Milligan (at the London Branch Day School) in 1975. I was at that class and when we danced the original instructions there was indeed a problem at b31-32. So JM decided that b25-32 should read b25-30 and an additional two bars added to read b31-32 1M & 2M turn left while 1W & 2W turn right. 1C having progressed to 2nd place and 2C to 1st place. It was also decided that b13-16 were danced using pas de basque step. This can be added to the crib and I suggest Keith be asked to prepare a diagram to reflect this. Many thanks

Previous Actions

Date March 2, 2021, 11:17 a.m.
User Stephen Webb (SJW)

New issue submitted

Date March 2, 2021, 10:35 p.m.
User Murrough Landon (murrough)

Disposition changed to »Needs help« (previously »New«)

I updated the extra info and linked to this issue. The two cribs are effectively both the same and do end up with 1st couple in 2nd place (though not in the way Stephen describes). The contributed crib claims to be the original instructions, but maybe it has already been updated? If so its not clear to me what the problematic original instructions actually were.

Date Jan. 18, 2023, 6:17 p.m.
User Viktor Lehmann (tone2tone)

Hey Murrough! The problem here is, that after bar 8, the couples have already progressed, and the following 8 (or 16) bars seem to keep it this way. Then, all of a sudden, from bar 17 (or 25) on, the couples seemed to have jumped back to their original places. … I think we can’t change any cribs just like that. We can fine tune the extra info to give guidelines of what had happened and what ways people came up with to resolve that matter, and then leave it as one of the odd entries and never produce a diagram for it. I am not happy with changing a dance devised by someone just because Miss Milligan or a group “decided” on what to do with an error they came across. I do not feel entitled to do that. Therefore, I tend to say, as all the above has been dealt with more or less, this issue MIGHT be closed, but will leave it up to you!