Ye Social Pow'rs

Ye Social Pow'rs is an English Country Dance. It was published by Thompson in 1778 in Twenty four Country Dances for the year 1778. It was interpreted by Colin Hume (website) in about 2025 and published in Colin Hume's Website. It is a proper Triple Minor dance. The minor set lasts 48 bars.

Thompson writes:

Cast off 2d. Cu: & set, cast off 3d. Cu: & set same up again cross over two Cu: lead up to the top, cast off and hands 4 round at bottom set contrary Corners Right and Left at top

The tune was published by Thompson with the dance and the music was synthesized by Colin Hume's software.

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 (no music plays during this slow set). 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: set, circle, cast, lead, rights and lefts, lead and cast, cross go below (and probably others).

If you find what you believe to be a mistake in this animation, please leave a comment on youtube explaining what you believe to be wrong. If I agree with you I shall do my best to fix it.

If you wish to link to this animation please see my comments on the perils of youtube. You may freely link to this page, of course, and that should have no problems, but use one of my redirects when linking to the youtube video itself:
https://www.upadouble.info/redirect.php?id=YeSocialPowrs

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The dance itself is out of copyright, and is in the public domain. The interpretation is copyright © ~2025 by Colin Hume. My visualization of this dance is copyright © 2025 by George W. Williams V and is released under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

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