Sam’s Maggot

Sam’s Maggot is an English Country Dance published by Walsh in 1728 and interpreted by Fried de Metz Herman in 1995 (and published in her book “Ease and Elegance“). It is a proper triple minor longways dance. The animation plays at 120 counts per minute normally, but the first time through the set the dance is slowed down so people can learn the figures 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 will change each time through the minor set.