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| A2 1st Co lead down, wheel round as a Co (Man | A2 1st Co lead down, wheel round as a Co (Man | ||
| backwards), lead up & cast to middle place (improper): | backwards), lead up & cast to middle place (improper): | ||
| - | B1&2 In side lines of 3 set twice (or optionally lead forward & back | + | B1&2 In side lines of 3 set twice |
| - | to partner), then hands 6 L half way round: | + | (David Smuckler suggests lead forward & back in lines) |
| - | C1 C1 step back (could set back) | + | then hands 6 L half way round: |
| + | C1 C1 step back slightly | ||
| as C3 & C2 face up and down on sides & set twice, | as C3 & C2 face up and down on sides & set twice, | ||
| C2 C3 & C2 2 changes R&L with hands, neighbours | C2 C3 & C2 2 changes R&L with hands, neighbours | ||
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| + | Animation: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToxT90cA-lo| Young Widow]]\\ | ||
| + | Video: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZmllRv2P9g | Young Widow]]\\ | ||
| + | Source: http://www.cdss.org/CDSS, \\ | ||
| + | Dance and Danceability, Sticker Number: OECDC 2016 - 12\\ | ||
| + | [[young_widow| Old instructions file]] (Triple minor version) | ||
| - | Source: http://www.cdss.org/CDSS, Dance and Danceability, Sticker Number: OECDC 2016 - 12 | + | YOUNG WIDOW. American, Country Dance The tune dates to c. 1788 and it, as well as dance instructions, appear in numerous American musicians' and dancers' manuscript collections from the last decade of the 18th century, as well as period publications. It has not been traced to British antecedents and appears to be an American invention. Morrisson (1976) remarks: "The unusual method of progression is its most distinctive feature." |
| - | [[young_widow| Old instructions file]] (Triple minor version) | + | John Griffith's A Collection of the Newest and Most Fashionable Country Dances and Cotillions (1788). Griffiths was a dancing master who had served for a time as principle assistant to Alexandre-Marie Quesnay at the New York brand of the Academy of Polite Arts. He struck out on his own and toured Connecticut, Rhode Island and Massachusetts, working as a dancing teacher. He graced Boston for six years with his skill and then returned to New York. Griffiths later opened a dancing academy in Charleston, South Carolina. |
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