Trusty Dick
Trusty Dick is an English Country Dance. It was published by Wright in 1740 in Wright's Compleat Collection of Celebrated Country Dances, Vol. 1. It was interpreted by Ken Sheffield (website) in 1982 and published in From Two Barns, Vol 1. It is a proper Duple Minor dance. The minor set lasts 24 bars.
Wright writes:
Each strain twice.
The 1st Cu. clap Hands and cast off and turn The 2d Cu. do the same then the 1st Cu. Cross over and single figure then Right and Left quite round
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 Ken Sheffield (including adaptations like this one) are licenced under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike: CC BY-NC-SA license by the CDSS Online Library.
An online description of the dance may be found here.
| A1 | 1-1 | 1s clap own hands, wait a beat, partner's right |
| 2-2 | 1s cast down as 2s lead up | |
| 3-4 | 1s turn single away | |
| A2 | 1-1 | 2s clap own hands, wait a beat, partner's right |
| 2-2 | 2s cast down as 1s lead up between 2s | |
| 3-4 | 2s turn single away into a line of four across facing neighbor | |
| B1 | 1-8 | Pass neighbor right, full hey for four across, all ending home |
| B2 | 1-4 | 2nd corners change, 1st corners change |
| 5-8 | Face neighbor, three changes of rights and lefts |
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