Dance The Jimp Waist 3284
Strathspey · 32 bars · 3 couples (1x) · Longwise - 5 (Progression: 231)
- Devised by
- Unknown
- Intensity
- 88000/88000/80000/88800 = 40% (whole dance)
- Formations
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- Rights and Lefts (R&L)
- Hands round - 6 - and back (HR;6P;BACK;)
- Note: This list may be incomplete and/or incorrect.
- Steps
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- Highland Schottische, Strathspey travel
- Note: This list may be incomplete and/or incorrect.
- Published in
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- Book 9 [2]
- Scottish Country Dances Books 7 to 12 (Combined A5 edition) [26]
- Pocket: Books 7,8,9 [26]
- Scottish Country Dances in Diagrams. Ed. 8 [334] (diagram only)
- Scottish Country Dances in Diagrams. Ed. 7 [301] (diagram only)
- Scottish Country Dances in Diagrams. Ed. 6 [292] (diagram only)
- Recommended Music
- Extra Info
The Jimp Waist
A “jimp” or slender, neat waist is often a young lady’s goal, no matter how it is achieved. Robert Burns in “A Mauchline Wedding” describes the attainment of an 18th century young lady’s fashionable figure. The two lines omitted from the third stanza are the work of Burns’ editor.
2.
The rising sun o’er Blacksideen
Was just appearing fairly,
When Nell and Bess got up to dress
Seven lang half-hours o’er early!
Now presses clink, and drawers jink,
For linens and for laces:
But modest Muses only think
What ladies’ underdress is
On sic a day!
3.
But we’ll suppose the stays are lac’d,
And bonie bosoms steekit,
Tho thro’ the lawn – but guess the rest!
An angel scarce durst keek it.
Then stockins fine o’ silken twine
Wi’ cannie care are drawn up;
An’ garten tight whare mortal wight –
* * * * * * *
* * * * * * *
4.
But now the gown wi’ rustling sound
Its silken pomp displays;
Sure there’s nae sin in being vain
O’ siccan bonie claes!
Sae jimp the waist, the tail sae vast –
Trouth, they were bonie birdies!
O Either Eve, ye wad been grieve
To see their ample hurdles
Sae large that day!
| Name | Artist | Album | Media | Trk | Type | Time | Pace | Clip | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Jimp Waist | Bobby Crowe and his Scottish Dance Band | Book 9. Music for Twelve Scottish Country Dances | LP+ | 8 | S32 4 | 4:12 | 63.0 | ||
| The Jimp Waist | Lindsay Weir and her Scottish Dance Band | Book 9. Music for 18 Scottish Country Dances (Book 9 plus 4 Dances 2008 and 2 dances for Eileen Watt) | CD | 2 | S32 10 | 10:22 | 62.2 |
The Jimp Waist 3/5L · S32
2 chords - 2nd chord 1s cross to 2nd place opp sides, 2s step up to top place own sides
- 1-8
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1-2 1M+2L & 1L+2M in Allemande hold cross the dance, Men passing LSh, face down on Men’s side, up on Ladies’ side
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3-4 Lady turns under Man’s right arm, Man turns under own right arm, Lady turns left under own left arm to face across set
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5-8 Repeat 1-4 back to places
- 9-16
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2s+1s dance R&L
- 17-24
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1s set HS, turn 2H & cast down to 3rd place (3s step up 23-24)
- 25-32
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2s+3s+1s circle 6H round & back
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Repeat, 1s dancing with 3s. Bar 23-24 1s cast 2 places to 4th place, return to own sides at start of new repeat. New top couple cross to 2nd place opp sides bars 31-32
Watch on YouTube
(YouTube must be enabled in cookie preferences to embed videos.)From the RSCDS video Scotland Dancing Again
Added on: 2020-06-12 (Ward Fleri)
Quality: Demonstration quality
Watch on YouTube
(YouTube must be enabled in cookie preferences to embed videos.)1996 RSCDS teaching video
Added on: 2020-07-26 (Murrough Landon)
Quality: Demonstration quality
Watch on YouTube
(YouTube must be enabled in cookie preferences to embed videos.)Budapest SCD Weekend 2023, Ball on 23.09.2023
Added on: 2023-09-25 (Ilana Steiner)
Quality: Informal/Social (RSCDS)
| Name | Date | Owner | Last changed |
|---|---|---|---|
| RSCDS Book 9 | Ward Fleri | July 10, 2021, 3:12 a.m. | |
| Budapest SCD Weekend 2023 - Ball | 2023-09-23 | Zsolt Molnar | Sept. 4, 2023, 4:24 p.m. |
| Budapest Local Club 20.04.2023 | 2023-04-20 | Zoltán Gräff | April 20, 2023, 9:43 a.m. |
| Easter Workshop 2011 | Anselm Lingnau | Jan. 20, 2012, 2:06 p.m. | |
| A set before scds | 2023-11-10 | George Hobson | Nov. 10, 2023, 12:22 p.m. |
