The Ridicule is a Cotillion published by Skillern & Challoner in about 1808. It was interpreted by Alan Winston sometime before 2017. It is a dance in a square formation. Found on Colin Hume's website: https://colinhume.com/instr.htm#Ridicule .
This dance uses terms which are probably common in cotillions but were not known to me, namely "rigadoon" and "step". Both are simulated here by setting (the "step" by setting twice). For a discussion see the website above.
A cotillion consists of five "changes" and a "figure". One dances a change and then the figure, then a different change followed by the same figure, and so on.
The animation plays at 109 counts per minute. Men are drawn as rectangles, women as ellipses. Each couple is drawn in its own color.
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