Anne's First Festival
Anne's First Festival is an English Country Dance. It was devised by Colin Hume (website) in 1992 and published in New Dances for Old. It is a 4 Couple Longways dance with the 3s, 4s improper. There is no progression in this dance. It is a multipart dance. The dance lasts 176 bars. Someone thought this dance was Hard.
The tune was published by Playford for the dance, The Old Mole. Synthesized music by Colin Hume
The animation plays at 124 counts per minute. Men are drawn as rectangles, women as ellipses. Each couple is drawn in its own color.
The dance contains the following figures: set, cast, hands across, hey, hey for three (and probably others).
If you find what you believe to be a mistake in this animation, please leave a comment on youtube explaining what you believe to be wrong. If I agree with you I shall do my best to fix it.
If you wish to link to this animation please see my comments on the perils of youtube. You may freely link to this page, of course, and that should have no problems, but use one of my redirects when linking to the youtube video itself:
https://www.upadouble.info/redirect.php?id=AnnesFirstFestival
The dance is copyright © 1992 by Colin Hume. My visualization of this dance is copyright © 2023 by George W. Williams V and is released under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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