Benjamin's Birth Day

Benjamin's Birth Day is an English Country Dance. It was devised by Gary Roodman (website) in 2000 and published in A Number of Calculated Figures. It is an improper duple minor longways dance. The minor set lasts 32 bars. It is in the key: A major. Someone thought this dance was Easy.

The tune, also called Benjamin's Birth Day, was also composed by Gary Roomman and performed by MGM and Reunion on the album Old Friends.

The animation plays at 113 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 (no music plays during this slow set). 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: set, turn single, circle, hey, circular hey, arming, back to back (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=BenjaminsBirthDay

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The dance is copyright © 2000 by Gary Roodman. My visualization of this dance is copyright © 2019 by George W. Williams V and is released under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

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