Table of Contents

• 0 Dancers
• 6 Dancers
• 8 Dancers
• 12 Dancers
• 18 Dancers
• Duple Minor
• Triple Minor

0 Dancers

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
The Old World and the New		Colin Hume 1992	Colin Hume	Square

6 Dancers

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
The Beggar Boy		John Playford 1651 Cecil Sharp 1911 Playford Ball	Bare Necessities	3 Couple Longways
Chestnut		John Playford 1651 Cecil Sharp 1911	A Playford Ball Bare Necessities	3 Couple Longways
Dove's Figary		John Playford 1651 Cecil Sharp 1911	A Playford Ball Bare Necessities	3 Couple Longways
El Camino Real		Robb Quint ~2016		3 Couple Longways permutation: 231
Hilliar and Brook ~ 2		Fried de Metz Herman 1991		3 Couple Longways permutation: 231
Ivy & a Rose		Jenny Beer 2015		3 Couple Longways permutation: 312
Kathy's Fascinator		Lydia Hedge 2020		3 Couple Longways permutation: 231
Kathy's Fascinator ~ Alternate		Lydia Hedge 2020		3 Couple Longways permutation: 231
Maiden Lane		John Playford 1651 Cecil Sharp (mod) 1912 Playford Assembly	Colin Hume	3 Couple Longways permutation: 231
Pat π's Jig		Harry Khamis ~2022		3 Couple Longways permutation: 231
Reflections		Brooke Friendly/Chris Sackett 2009		3 Couple Longways permutation: 231
The Royal Road		Robb Quint ~2016		3 Couple Longways permutation: 231
Tempest Jig		Gary Roodman 2018		3 Couple Longways

8 Dancers

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
The Anniversary - Thompson		Ella Thompson 2016		4 Couple Longways permutation: 2413
Banjo in a Bear Suit		Brooke Friendly/Chris Sackett 2010		Square
Cheerily and Merrily ~ Sharp		John Playford 1651 Cecil Sharp 1911		4 Couple Longways
The Chocolate Equation		Brooke Friendly/Chris Sackett 2009	Frank Hoppe	4 Couple Longways permutation: 2341
Culla Bay		Ann Dix 2000		Square permutation: 4123
The Darlington Dancer		John Brenchley 2020		4 Couple Longways
The Dream Catcher		Eileen Orr 2001		Square
Farewell to Auchterarder		Bill Hamilton 1967		Square
Father's Day		Gary Roodman 2000	Cilantrio	4 Couple Longways permutation: 3142
The Four Branches		Bill Hartung ~2016		4 Couple Longways permutation: 2341
The Glengarry Homestead		John Brenchley 1995		4 Couple Longways permutation: 2413
Here Kitty, Kitty, Kitty		Bob Messner ~2026		4 Couple Longways permutation: 2341
Ian Powrie's Farewell to Auchterarder		Bill Hamilton 1967		Square
Ian Powrie's Farewell to Auchterarder ~ 2 Couple		Bill Hamilton 1967		Square
Larkin Grace		Chris Sackett/Brooke Friendly 2005		Square permutation: 4123
MacDonald of Keppoch		Chris Ronald 2015		Square permutation: 4123
Meander		Mary Devlin 2008	Susan McNeil, Robert Winokur and Lawrence Wallin	4 Couple Longways permutation: 2413
Mr. Webb's Fancy ~ Sharp		John Playford 1651 Cecil Sharp 1911		4 Couple Longways
The Phoenix		John Playford 1670 Cecil Sharp 1912 Playford Ball	Colin Hume	4 Couple Longways
Ringing the Changes		Colin Hume 1992	Bare Necessities	Square
The Rumpus ~ 4 Couple		Bob Lilley 1995		4 Couple Longways permutation: 4123
St. Martin's Strathspey		Roy Goldring 1996		4 Couple Longways permutation: 2341
Standard Conclusions		Brooke Friendly 2002		4 Couple Longways
Sunday in the Park		Deanna St. Amand 1995		4 Couple Longways permutation: 2413
Wiesler's Romp		Gary Roodman 2020		4 Couple Longways permutation: 2413

12 Dancers

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Farewell to Auchterarder		Bill Hamilton 1967		6 Couple Circle permutation: 561234
Ian Powrie's Farewell to Auchterarder ~ Hex		Bill Hamilton 1967		6 Couple Circle permutation: 561234

18 Dancers

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Bea's Delight		May MacFarlane 2003		Triple Minor
Cranberry Tart		Terry Glasspool 1999		Triple Minor
Currie Mountain		Mary Pugh 1984		Triple Minor
Dumbarton Drums ~ RSCDS		Thomas Wilson 1816 RSCDS 1929		Triple Minor
Green Grow the Rashes ~ RSCDS		Walsh ~1740 RSCDS 1938		Triple Minor
Miss Mary Douglas ~ RSCDS		Thomas Wilson 1816 RSCDS 1935		Triple Minor
Lofted Debris		Lisa Guest 2025		Triple Minor
The Meeting of the Waters		Iain Boyd 1969		Triple Minor
Miss Mary Douglas ~ RSCDS		Thomas Wilson 1816 RSCDS 1935		Triple Minor
My Mother's Coming In		Thomas Wilson ~1814 RSCDS 1949		Triple Minor
The Provost Wynd		Roy Goldring ~1990		Triple Minor
The Question is Weather to Dance or Not		Lisa Guest 2025		Triple Minor
Rakish Highlandman ~ RSCDS		Thomas Wilson 1816 RSCDS 1957		Triple Minor
Willie with his Tartan Trews ~ RSCDS		Johnson 1750 RSCDS 1947		Triple Minor

Duple Minor

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Mr. Chopin's Waltz		Gary Roodman 2009	Bare Necessities	Duple Minor

Triple Minor

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Doway		John Young 1718 Bernard Bentley 1962		Triple Minor
Lord Howe's Jig ~ Apted		Thompson 1777 W. S. Porter, M. Heffer, A. Heffer 1931		Triple Minor
Lord Howe's Jig ~ Bolton		Thompson 1777 Charles Bolton 2003		Triple Minor
A New and Awful Dignity		Gary Roodman 2012		Triple Minor
Round O		Henry Playford 1703 Cecil Sharp 1922		Triple Minor

Warning: The figures for each dance is generated programmatically by regular expression matching and may be in error. Also, for old dances, they reflect the figures used by the interpreter which may not match those of the deviser.

Parallel Reels

Also known as: Parallel Heys.

Bars: 8 bars for a full straight reel with 3 or 4 dancers.

Parallel reels are usually done with three people on each side of the set. The men's line and the women's line will do the same moves in parallel, the reels start by having the top two couples pass each other by the right (sometimes left) shoulders.

History

In Cheerily and Merrily, 1651, Playford may be calling for parallel heys, or he might mean mirror heys:

Men the S. Hey, while the we. do as much

In Adson's Saraband (from the same edition) he is very careful about spelling out exactly how the mirror hey is done. But here he is much briefer. My guess (and Cecil Sharp's) is that both men and women should do a right shoulder (single) right shoulder hey on the sides, but Charles Bolton thought differently (and uses mirror heys).

The (R)SCDS first uses parallel reels in Book 5 (1929) in Dunbarton Drums. However the term "parallel reels" isn't used until Book 19 (1957) for the dance Rakish Highlandman.

See Also

• Reel
• Mirror Reel

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