6 for the Six Proud Walkers

6 for the Six Proud Walkers is a "dance pattern" devised by Fried de Metz Herman in 1994 (and published in her book "Ease and Elegance"). It is designed to teach basic English country dance figures, but it makes a perfectly good dance in its own right. It is part of a series of twelve dance patterns called "Green Grow the Rushes, Oh!". It is an improper duple minor longways dance. It can also be danced in a Sicilian circle. The tune, called Fried's Triumph, was composed by John Stapledon. It was performed by Bare Necessities (Earl Gaddis, Mary Lea, Peter Barnes, and Jacqueline Schwab) on the album "New Shoots". It is used with permission of Country Dance Society, Boston Centre, Inc. https://www.cds-boston.org/ecdc/ The animation plays at 106 counts per minute normally, but the first time through the set the dance is slowed down so people can learn the figures 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 will change each time through the minor set. https://www.upadouble.info/