Puck’s Deceit

Puck’s Deceit is an English Country Dance by Brooke Friendly and Chris Sackett. It is a proper duple minor longways dance. The tune, called “Kettledrum“ was published by Playford. 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. The animation plays at 113 counts per minute normally, but the first time through the set the dance is slowed down so people can learn the moves 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 may change each time through the minor set.