Green Mountain Volunteers

Green Mountain Volunteers is a New England Contra Dance. It was devised by Emma Burchenal in 1918 and published in American Country Dances, New York/Boston. It was interpreted by Smukler & Millstone in about 2008 and published in Cracking Chestnuts. It is an improper duple minor longways dance. The minor set lasts 32 bars.

Burchenal says "chassé" but she describes a promenade in A1&2. Smukler & Millstone say "chassé", but they mean "as a couple" rather than individually.

In B2 Burchenal says "right and left four" while Smukler & Millstone say "right and left through", but the CDSS video shows a "right and left four".

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: cast, right and left through, swing (and probably others).

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=GreenMountainVolunteers

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The dance is out of copyright in the US, but I'm not sure of other jurisdictions. The interpretation is copyright © ~2008 by Smukler & Millstone. 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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