The Duchess's Slipper ~ Williams

The Duchess's Slipper ~ Williams is an English Country Dance. It was published by Longman & Broderip in 1790 in Longman and Broderip's Fourth Selection of...Country Dances, Reels &c., London. It was interpreted by George Williams in 2024. It is a proper Duple Minor dance. The minor set lasts 24 bars.

Longman & Boroderip first published a dance called "The Duchess's Slipper" in 1790, and republished it in 1796 (with the same figure) in Twenty Four Country Dances for the Year 1796.

The 1st. Lady hay with her partner and the 2d. Gent: The 1st. Gent: hay with his partner and the 2d. Lady Lead down two Cou: up again one Cou: Allemande

The music consists of a four bar strain and an eight bar strain, both repeated.

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.

The dances of George Williams (including interpretations like this one) are licenced under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike: CC BY-NC-SA license.

A11-4W1 pass M2 left to hey with the men
A21-4M1 pass W2 right to hey with the women
B11-81s lead down, turn, lead back to 2nd place, as the 2s lead up
B21-4Regency allemande right...
5-8...and back to the left

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