Beaux of Oak Hill
Beaux of Oak Hill is a New England Contra Dance. It was published by Elias Howe in 1862 in American Dancing Master, Boston. It was interpreted by Cracking Chestnuts in 2008. It is an improper duple minor longways dance. The minor set lasts 32 bars.
A dance of this name appears in Howe's American Dancing Master, but it has been much modified since then — for one thing, it was originally proper.
First lady down the centre with 2d gentleman, back, and the lady cast off, 1st gent. down the centre with 2d lady, back, and the gent. cast off, 1st four balance, half right and left, balance again, half right and left to places. — American Dancing Master
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.
An online description of the dance may be found here.
The dance contains the following figures: set, ladies chain (courtesy turn), right and left through, swing (and probably others).
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The dance itself is out of copyright, and is in the public domain. The interpretation is copyright © 2008 by Cracking Chestnuts. My visualization of this dance is copyright © 2021 by George W. Williams V and is released under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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