Capers at Canterbury ~ Cooper
Capers at Canterbury ~ Cooper is an English Country Dance. It was devised by J. Power in 1822 and published in Select Collection of Dances, Waltzes, Quadrilles, &c. It was interpreted by Paul Cooper (website) in about 2010. It is a proper Triple Minor dance. The minor set lasts 32 bars.
The tune was published by Power with the dance and the music was synthesized by Colin Hume.
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 interpretations on the Regency Dance Site are licenced under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike: CC BY-NC-SA license.
An online description of the dance may be found here.
| A1 | 1-4 | 1s+2s right hands across... |
| 5-8 | ...and left hands back | |
| A2 | 1-4 | 1s+2s set to neighbor and slip across into partners' place |
| 5-8 | 1s+2s set and slip back | |
| B1 | 1-8 | 1s cross, go below 2s, cross again, go below 3s and lead up to 2nd place as 2s lead up |
| B2 | 1-2 | M1+L2 change left (passing back to back) |
| 3-4 | L1+M2 change right | |
| 5-6 | M1+L2 change back | |
| 7-8 | L1+M2 change back |
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=CapersAtCanterbury-Cooper
The dance itself is out of copyright, and is in the public domain. The interpretation is copyright © ~2010 by Paul Cooper. My visualization of this dance is copyright © 2025 by George W. Williams V and is released under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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