Campbell's Frolic ~ RSCDS
Campbell's Frolic ~ RSCDS is a Scottish Country Dance. It was published by Johnson in 1751 in A Choice Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, Vol. 6th, London. It was interpreted by RSCDS in 1949 and published in RSCDS Book 15. It is J8×32 3C/4C, a proper Triple Minor dance. J32.
Johnson published this in his 6th volume of Country Dances (1751), and Rutherford publishes essentially the same figure in 1756. The RSCDS credits this dance to Rutherford.
Both Johnson and Rutherford spell this dance as "Campbel's Frolick".
Foot it all 4 and Hands across & cast off The same with the 3d. Cu. Lead up to the Top foot it & cast off Hands round all 6 & turn your Partner
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, circle, cast, lead, hands across (and probably others).
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The dance itself is out of copyright, and is in the public domain. The interpretation is copyright © 1949 by RSCDS. My visualization of this dance is copyright © 2022 by George W. Williams V and is released under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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