The Poppy and the Thistle
Inspired by Keith Rose's Crib Diagrams.
The Poppy and the Thistle is a Scottish Country Dance. It was devised by Deanna Saint Amand in 2015 and published in Celebrating 50 Years (RSCDS Los Angeles). It is a 4 Couple Longways dance with the 3s, 4s improper. In this dance the couples are permuted by: 2413. St32Someone thought this dance was Intermediate.
The animation plays at 120 counts per minute normally, but the first time through the set the dance is 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.
The dance contains the following figures: hand turn (allemande), set, circle, cast, lead, hands across (and probably others).
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The dance is copyright © 2015 by Deanna Saint Amand. My visualization of this dance is copyright © 2022 by George W. Williams V and is released under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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