Swedish Dance

Swedish Dance is a European Contredanse. It was published by Thomas Hillgrove in 1857 in The Scholar's Companion and Ball-Room Vade-Mecum. It is a Three Face Three dance. The minor set lasts 32 bars.

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.

1-4Lines of three forward and back
5-8That again, forward and back
9-12Centers set twice to the opposite on their right
13-16Those, right hand turn
17-20Centers set twice to the opposite on their left
21-24Those, left hand turn
25-28Centers move right to circle left three with the two there
29-32and back by the right
33-36Centers move left to circle right three with the two there
37-40and back by the left
41-44Everyone right hands across
45-48and back by the left
49-52Circle six
53-56and back by the right
57-60Lines of three forward and back
61-64Pass through and on to the next

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The dance itself is out of copyright, and is in the public domain. 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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