This is a wonderful way to demonstrate 'on paper'!!!!! Wow!!

Animation is fine and the date here on youtube is fine, but the date on upadouble says 2010

The "ch" in Lochiel is pronounced like the "ch" in Bach -- as though you have a small hairball in your throat.

Love this,makes me want to do a jig😂

Love the little candles!

Thank you for making this!

As usual very well done and very useful to help understanding a difficult dance. Thank you George!!

Thank you, very useful diagrams and explanation.

a revelation 🎉😊

Muziek?

This is fantastic. Thank you for making all of these.

Description box error: the tune is The Merry Merry Milkmaids

Description box typo: the tune is The Old Mole

The description box is incorrect; it's for a different dance.

Ah -- I see it has been re -choreographed as a square dance hence the claim to the USA - perhaps this should be stated .

This cannot be a USA dance -- It is and English (UK) country dance from 1651 --- not American at all . Please correct !

Thank you for this wonderful dance, Mr. Williams! I found the notation for the tune on abcnotation. Do you happen to know if there is a recording available that I could use for our dance meetings? Whether it's on CD, MP3 or Bandcamp, I'd appreciate any tips.

Thanks for the dance sequence, we are practicing Maiden Lane with Jill Elliot for the Clapton concert, also learning the tune in beginners fiddle class, I find it a difficult dance to remember, this helps.

What a great idea! Thank you for sharing!

Thanks for your good animations!!!! I can recommend for new animations the easy Cotillons of Thomas Hurst (1769, see library.. etc.). Please make animations of the easy first three cotillons of the collection from 1769 😀 (all 16 from this collection would be good too!!)

Zu welcher Musik wird das Lied getanzt?

Wonderful dance, thank you

In the B1 section, the video shows the 1s heying above with the 2s. However, the text says that the 1s are heying below with the 3s. As a caller, I really appreciate the effort that you put into your videos, especially those dances that do not have any other videos.

Here a recommendation for a new animation: Lidia´s Ramble 1754 Thompson

Is there any specific music this would be danced to? I’ve just started an English country dance group and I’m not very familiar with the music choices yet.

The description says triple minor, but the video shows a duple minor.

This dance is a 3-couple dance in the 1651 edition of Playford, not a triple minor.

"Pretty Nun" is an English Country Dance, should be Ormond House. Sorry

Thank you for the video. Unfortunately, all but the last set with music are off by 4 bars, since the animation already starts during the 4 bars of introduction. And as a side note for those who are interested: in Germany it has become the custom that the twos instead of just watching the ones do their meet and fall back, dance a fall back and meet both times to have a more flowing and dynamic lead up/down.

For AABB. I know an interpretation with changing AA with BB for every verse

After 3 years I gave you the first like

Same tune of Juice of Barley

Thanks

Danced today at North Weston village hall courtesy of Jill E and Marc,

The casting moves (men in A1 and women in A2) are both to the right, dancers traveling clockwise, not to the left. The animation is correct, the audio has the error.

Please make an animation of "The Highwayman" (see libraryofdances: The London Magazine, or Gentleman's Monthly Intelligencer, 1750, p.516), for me, the choreography is a mistery 🙂 I see two versions of the structure for the verse: AABBC and AABBCA.

this is so cool!! but i can't imagine how difficult it would be to preform one of those dances. by the way am curious if you perhaps run a dance class?

This dance is proper triple minor not duple.

Hello, I am ever so grateful for your video, especially to see dance instructions in action when no other video of the dance can be found. I occasionally teach English and Scottish Country Dance and since I am sight-oriented, having seen the movements of the couples at least once, makes it much easier for me to teach and call it. I am about to teach and call Dish-oriented in a couple of weeks and eagerly started the video. But unfortunately, there's a mistake in the animation that kind of makes the dance less interesting for couples 3 and 4 and actually works against what the choreographers intended. When the set is across the hall in verse 2 and 4, the new active couples that start with the "lead down the middle and back" start from the wrong side of the hall. The top of the set moves CCW (top left wall, bottom, right wall), so the couple that starts the verse at the bottom of the set, becomes the new active couple in the next verse (by their original numbers it's couples 1, 4, 2, 3). You move the top of the set CW and so just the red couple 1 and the green couple 2 alternate in being the active couple, while blue (3) and yellow (4) don't become the active couple at all. I hope it isn't too much work to correct the video. Thanks again for all your work.

Love your animations! I miss the music when it isn't included and our dance group uses gender neutral language so it took me a minute to figure out the men were left file- women right.

This is a terrific dance. Don't be surprised though in the B2 that couples get 12 beats to swing rather than 16. The figure before the swing is to have gents (larks) turn 3/4 and it often takes more than two beats to do that.

In my instructions, there are cascading stars: top couples - right hand star, middle - left and bottom - right. It will be awkward to dance all of them as a right hand star. Sorry.

I have a question to the interpretation of the choreography of the dance "The Highwayman" , look at libraryofdance, there at "London Magazine" 1750, p.516. The choreography is a mistery for me 🙂

Hmmmmm

Sorry, at the beginning of your comments, there is wrong name of the dance: "Wildboar's Maggot" Should be " The Sprigs of Laurel"

Thanks😀

What platform do you use to make videos! I need to make a video explaining each step of two English country dances and love the way you explain things.

What platform are you using to animate this?

"It is a 4 couple dance in a square formation." Sorry, looks like Duple Minor proper to me.

Minor Nit - the tune during the dance is correct, but a different tune was used at the intro to the video.