As I am looking into Colonial and Early American dances and seeing that most of them seem to be triple minors, a question popped into my head: how did they do the progression at the bottom of the line? I know that they started these dances differently (i.e. the top couple "teaching" the dance as they went down the line), but I am curious as to how they handled the progression at the bottom. I know of two ways we do it now (dancing with "ghosts" or the bottom 2 (inactive) couples trading places), but I am wondering how they did it back then.

Tom Willson
Simi Valley, CA