The Rainbow ~ Williams

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The Rainbow ~ Williams is an English Country Dance. It was published by Thompson in 1774 in Twenty Four Country Dances for the Year 1774, London. It was interpreted by George Williams in 2022. Originally a Triple Minor this version is a proper Duple Minor dance. The minor set lasts 24 bars.

Thompson writes:

Set & change sides back again hands six half round & back again lead down one Cu. Right & Left at top

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.

A11-4Set to partner, and change sides with them
A21-4Set and change back
B11-4Circle left...
5-8...and back to the right
B21-21s lead down as 2s cast up
3-8Face partner, four changes of rights and lefts (at 3 steps per change)

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