Easter Eve

Easter Eve is an English Country Dance. It was published by Henry Playford (website) in 1701 in The Dancing Master, 11th ed., London. It was interpreted by Bernard Bentley in 1971 and published in The Fallibroome Collection, Vol. 4. It is a proper Duple Minor dance. The minor set lasts 32 bars.

Playford writes:
The two men leads throught he wo. and half Figure, and turn in contrary place The wo. do the same The first couple being in the second cu. place, the 1. man cross with the second wo. and the first wo. do the same, then hands half round and turn single Now right and left till you come in the second couples places, and lead through the second couple and turn.

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 dance contains the following figures: set, turn single, circle, cast, lead, figure eight, rights and lefts (and probably others).

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The dance itself is out of copyright, and is in the public domain. The interpretation is copyright © 1971 by Bernard Bentley. 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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