Kaleidoscope

Kaleidoscope is an English Country Dance. It was devised by Colin Hume (website) in 1990 and published in Dances with a Difference, Vol. 3. It is a Three Face Three dance. It is a mixer. The minor set lasts 32 bars. Someone thought this dance was Intermediate.

Colin says that this should be danced with two same sex dancers on the outside while the one in the middle should be the opposite sex. My animation can only show one arrangement of sexes, so I am showing lines containing two women and one man.

He also says "Don't let any ladies dance as men".

Colin calls this dance double progression, and that is sort of true. At the end of the first iteration of the dance, there will be lines where you would expect them after a double progression dance. If a dancer is male and starts in the middle then he will progress twice. Other dancers have rather surprising patterns.

The ladies chain seems a little tricky at first, but if you have followed Colin's instructions, then at the end of B1 there will be exactly one woman with a man on her left in each line. That woman, and the man to her left should ladies chain with a similar pair in the facing line. This may be diagonally across, or straight across.

The tune was composed by Colin Hume. It was performed by "The Rampions" (Gil Howell, Martin Howell, John McGeachen, Gill Willis, Paul Roberts, and Brian Smith) for the book "Dances with a Difference, Vol. 3". The music is used with permission from Colin Hume.

The animation plays at 107 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.

The dance contains the following figures: set, circle, hey (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.

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