Lidia's Ramble

Lidia's Ramble is an English Country Dance. It was published by Thompson in 1754. It was interpreted by George Williams in 2024. It is a proper Duple Minor dance. The minor set lasts 32 bars.

Thompson writes:

The 1st. and 2d. Cu. foot it and turn Partners foot it Sides and turn cross over half figure and right and left

The music consists of 2 eight bar strains in 2/4 time.

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.

A11-4Set twice to partner
5-8Partner two hand turn
A21-4Set twice to neighbor
5-8Neighbor two hand turn
B11-41s cross, go below, as 2s lead up
5-81s half figure eight up through 2s
B21-8Face partner, four changes of rights and lefts

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.

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The dance itself is out of copyright, and is in the public domain. The interpretation is copyright © 2024 by George Williams. And is released under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. My visualization of this dance is copyright © 2024 by George W. Williams V and is released under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

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