La Belle Catherine ~ Duple is an American Country Dance. It was devised by Lucy Mussey in about 1790 and published in Lucy Mussey's Commonplace Book. It was interpreted by Kate van Winkle Keller & Ralph Sweet in 1976 and published in A Choice Selection of American Country Dances of the Revolutionary Era. It is a proper Duple Minor dance. The minor set lasts 32 bars.
Saltator writes:
Two first couple balance, half round, dance address, back, first couple down the middle, up bissè, right and left atop.
I think "brissè" must mean cast.
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, circle, cast, lead, rights and lefts, lead and cast, down the middle and back (and probably others).
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The dance itself is out of copyright, and is in the public domain. The interpretation is copyright © 1976 by Kate van Winkle Keller & Ralph Sweet. 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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