Dance Watchmaker 18852
See also: The Watchmaker (S40, 4/4L, Cannell: St Ronan's 35 Anniversary)
Strathspey · 32 bars · 2 couples · Longwise - 4
- Devised by
- Rod Downey (2018)
- Published in
- Extra Info
- This is a teaching dance for tourbillon for intermediate dancers. Most dances with this figure are quite complex. I wished …
This is a teaching dance for tourbillon for intermediate dancers. Most dances with this figure are quite complex. I wished to remedy that, with a relatively straightforward dance involving quite familiar figures, and natural transitions.
In 1801, Abraham-Louis Breguet patented the tourbillon (= whirlwind in French) as an addition to the mechanics of watch escapement to counteract the effect of gravity.
