Todlen Hame ~ Williams is an English Country Dance. It was devised by Thomas Wilson in 1816 and published in A Companion to the Ball Room, London. It was interpreted by George Williams in 2024. It is a proper Triple Minor dance. The minor set lasts 32 bars.
SINGLE FIGURE 1st. strain played straight thro 2d. repeated
Hey on your own sides
swing with right hands round 2d. Cu: then with left
OR THUS Cross over one Cu: half figure round the 3d. Cu: & lead outsides
DOUBLE FIGURE Tune played twice thro as marked
Whole figure at top Chain figure 6 round lead down the middle up again & right & left with top Cu: & lead through the bottom & top
The music is an eight bar strain and a four bar strain. In the double figure (which is what the RSCDS uses) these should be played ABBABB.
Wilson defines most of his figures in his An Analysis of Country Dancing, 3rd Edition.
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 | 1-8 | 1s full figure eight down through the 2s |
B1+2 | 1-8 | 1s face partner, others face neighbor, grand chain |
A2 | 1-4 | 1s lead down, turn, lead up to 2nd place as 2s lead up |
5-8 | 1s+2s: 2nd corners change by left, 1st by right, 2nd left, 1st right | |
B3 | 1-4 | 1s lead below 3s and cast back to place |
B4 | 1-4 | 1s dance above 2s and cast back to place |
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The dance itself is out of copyright, and is in the public domain. The interpretation is copyright © 2024 by George Williams. And is released under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. My visualization of this dance is copyright © 2024 by George W. Williams V and is released under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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