The Tempest ~ Thompson
The Tempest ~ Thompson is an English Country Dance. It was published by Thompson in 1782 in Twenty Four Country Dances for the Year 1782, London. It was interpreted by George Williams in 2023. It is a proper Duple Minor dance. The minor set lasts 12 bars.
Thompson calls his dance, The Tempest, and writes:
Right hands across quite round left hands back again cross over one Cu. Right & left
I'm going to fold the two hands across into one 4 bar strain rather than the two used here.
I'm going to assume that cross over one Cu. implies a following half figure eight (or two hand turn once and a half) to get the 1s proper.
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.
| A | 1-2 | Right hands across... |
| 3-4 | ...and left hands back | |
| B1 | 1-2 | 1s cross, go below, as 2s lead up |
| 3-4 | 1s half figure eight up through 2s | |
| B2 | 1-4 | Face partner, four changes of rights and lefts |
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