Flora & Phaon

Flora & Phaon is an English Country Dance. It was published by Walsh in 1718 in The Compleat Country Dancing-Master. It was interpreted by Andrew Shaw in 2017 and published in Elephants Stairs. It is a proper Duple Minor dance. The minor set lasts 16 bars. Someone thought this dance was Intermediate.

Walsh writes:
All four Hands half round, and foot it Then Hands the other half round, and turn single Cast off and turn Hands Lead thro' the 2d Cu. and cast off, then turn single, the Man to the Right and the Woman to the Left

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: hand turn (allemande), set, turn single, turn single cloverleaf, circle, cast, lead, cast and lead, lead and cast (and probably others).

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The dance itself is out of copyright, and is in the public domain. The interpretation is copyright © 2017 by Andrew Shaw. My visualization of this dance is copyright © 2018 by George W. Williams V and is released under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

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