Sir Roger de Coverley

Sir Roger de Coverley is an English Country Dance found in Thomas Wilson, 1809. It was often called the finishing dance as it was usually the last dance of an evening. During the course of the nineteenth century this dance evolved into the Virginia Reel. It is a proper longways set "for as many as will", though the best number seems to be between 4 and 8 couples. This video shows a 5 couple set. Dickens mentions this dance in "A Christmas Carol". The animation plays at 120 counts per bar. 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 will change each time through the minor set. https://www.upadouble.info/