A New and Awful Dignity is an English Country Dance. It was devised by Gary Roodman (website) in 2012 and published in A Group of Calculated Figures. It is a proper Triple Minor dance. The minor set lasts 16 bars. It is in the key: G minor. Someone thought this dance was Intermediate / Hard.
The seventieth birthday! It is the time of life when you arrive at a new and awfl dignity: when you may throw aside the decent reserves which have oppressed you for a generation and stand unafraid and unabashed upon your seven-terraced summit and look down and teach — unrebuked
— Mark Twain
The animation plays at 120 counts per minute normally, but the first time through the set the dance will often be slowed down so people can learn the moves more readily. 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.
The dance contains the following figures: turn single, circle, lead, hands across, hey, parallel hey, hey for three, rights and lefts, siding, cross go below (and probably others).
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The dance is copyright © 2012 by Gary Roodman. My visualization of this dance is copyright © 2020 by George W. Williams V and is released under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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