Lilypad Island is an English Country Dance. It was devised by Leslie Lassetter in 1994 and published in Hudson Barn II. It is a proper Duple Minor dance. The minor set lasts 32 bars.
If I follow what I think the instructions say then I end up with the 2s improper at the end of the dance. So I have changed the instructions in B:9-12 from "second couple lead up (progression)" to "second couple cross up".
Perhaps the 2s are intended to become improper as man hands his partner through the arch (A:12-14), but the instructions don't say so.
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), turn single, turn single cloverleaf, lead, rights and lefts, cross go below (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=LilypadIsland
The dance is copyright © 1994 by Leslie Lassetter. My visualization of this dance is copyright © 2023 by George W. Williams V and is released under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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