Miss Clemy Stewart's Reel - Williams
Miss Clemy Stewart's Reel - Williams is an English Country Dance. It was devised by Castle Menzies in 1749 and published in The Register of Dances at Castle Menzies, Scotland. It was interpreted by George Williams in 2024. It is a proper Triple Minor dance. The minor set lasts 32 bars.
Quoted from The Register of Dances at Castle Menzies (as transcribed by Jim Healy):
[1st man] casts off & turns the 3d woman then the 1st woman the same, then cross hands above & below, the 1st pair sets cross & reels at the sides.
The RSCDS likes its finishing reels, but I see nothing to indicate that the reels are on the opposite side, nor that the 1s should cross after it.
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.
| A1 | 1-2 | M1 casts down as M2 twirls up |
| 3-4 | M1+W3 left hand turn | |
| 5-6 | W1 casts down as W2 twirls up | |
| 7-8 | W1+M3 right hand turn | |
| A2 | 1-4 | 2s+1s right hands across |
| 5-8 | 1s+3s left hands across | |
| B1 | 1-4 | 1s set twice to 1st corners |
| 5-8 | 1s set twice to 2nd corners | |
| B2 | 1-8 | 1s pass person on the left by the right to start reels of three on the sides |
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