Severn Bore is an English Country Dance by Fried de Metz Herman published in "Fringe Benefits" in 1999. It is a proper duple minor dance.
The animation plays at 120 counts per minute. 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.
In the dance the transition from the mirror gypsy to the hey is easy for the men but requires an abrupt turn for the women. Easy progression for W2 requires her to end the hey slightly prematurely.
The Bristol Channel acts as a large funnel which takes the tidal energy spread over a hundred miles or so and concentrates it all into the mouth of the Severn giving the Severn one of the greatest tidal fluxes in the world with changes between high and low tide of almost 30 feet.
When the tidal difference is greatest, near the new and full moons, bores are most likely to occur. About a third of the high tides on the Severn are accompanied by significant bores.
At low water the Severn flows out into the sea, in the dance this is represented when the 1s and 2s lead down.
When the tide changes the water from the sea starts pushing the river water back upstream, in the dance the 1s (representing the ocean) push the 2s backwards up the hall.
Finally the turbulence of the bore is represented by the vortexes on the sides and and in the end, the hey.
This was written by Fried Herman in honour of Robert Moir, a British ECD caller, who lived near the Severn.
A good set of dance notes on what Fried intended from her dancers is at • The Severn Bore
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