16 Progressive

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Fogg's Fold		Victor Skowronski 2015		Duple Minor

30 Progressive

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Spring Allegro		Gary Roodman 2009		Duple Minor

32 Progressive

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Buckingham House ~ Duple		John Young 1718 Pat Shaw (mod) 1960		Duple Minor
California Sunshine		Gary Roodman 2018	Cilantrio	Duple Minor
Freda's Fancy		Pat Shaw 1949		Duple Minor
Green Grow the Rushes O? ~ Duple		Thomas Wilson 1809 George Williams 2022		Duple Minor
Jackey Tarr ~ Duple		Thomas Wilson 1816 George Williams 2021	Colin Hume	Duple Minor
Kaleidoscope		Colin Hume 1990	The Rampions	Three Face Three
Maxwill's Rant ~ Duple		David Rutherford 1756 George Williams 2022		Duple Minor
Peace and Joy		Joseph Pimentel 2012	Goldcrest	Duple Minor
Ruby Wilkinson's Farewell to Cranshaws		Alasdair Brown 2015		4 Couple Longways permutation: 2413
Turning Point		Gary Roodman 2000		Lines of Four
The Wind on Loch Fyne		John Bowie Dickson 1986		3 Couple Circle

38 Progressive

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
The Designing Woman		Gary Roodman 1996	MGM + Reunion	Duple Minor
The Designing Woman ~ Redesigned		Gary Roodman 2005	MGM + Reunion	Duple Minor

48 Progressive

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Banish Misfortune		Jenna Simpson 2009	Colin Hume	3 Couple Circle

64 Progressive

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Hunt the Squirrel ~ Duple		John Young 1709 George Williams 2020	A Playford Ball Bare Necessities	Duple Minor

96 Non-Progressive

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Rogue's Ramble		Brooke Friendly/Chris Sackett 2002		Square
The Tea Pottery		Duncan Brown ~2020		Square

128 Progressive

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
1314		John Drewry 1967		Square

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.

Interlocking Reel

Also known as: Interwoven Hey.

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

In an interwoven hey/interlocking reel everyone acts as if they are at the end of the hey. They pass the requisite number of people, turn, and come back. However, no two dancers' personal reels will contain the same set of people. These heys may be linear, or wrap around a circle.

The number of people in each hey is arbitrary; I've only seen heys for three and four, but there's no reason one couldn't do it with more people.

In a duple minor dance, you can have heys on the sidelines which could in turn be either mirror or parallel. In a triple minor you couldn't have two heys on the sidelines, but you could view the minor set as a 6 person circle...

History

The first such hey I've found comes from Pat Shaw's Freda's Fancy which was written in 1949. In duple minor dances these heys go outside the minor set and so you would not expect to find them before the modern era.

In circles (or squares) they could have evolved earlier, but I haven't found any. John Drewry used one in a square set in his dance 1314 written in 1967.

See Also

• Reel

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