Rufty Tufty

Rufty Tufty is an English Country Dance from Playford's English Dancing Master 1651. It is a 2 couple dance with facing couples. It is a USA dance. Found in The Playford Ball.

The tune of the same name was published with the dance. It was performed by Bare Necessities (Earl Gaddis, Mary Lea, Peter Barnes, and Jacqueline Schwab) on the album "By Choice". It is used with permission of Country Dance Society, Boston Centre, Inc. https://www.cds-boston.org/ecdc/

The animation plays at 116 counts per minute. Men are drawn as rectangles, women as ellipses. Each couple is drawn in its own color.