Table of Contents

A

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
All Who Wander		Brooke Friendly/Chris Sackett 2010		Circle as many as will
Any Which Way		Alice M. Allen ~2016		4 Couple Longways permutation: 2413
The Archer		Anna Rain 2015	Odd Sundays Garage Band	Duple Minor
Australian Ladies - Hay		Alec Hay 1966		4 Couple Longways permutation: 2341

B

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Birthday at Pinewoods		Chris Sackett/Brooke Friendly 2008		Duple Minor
Burns Night		Robert McOwen 1998		Duple Minor

C

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Canadian Landscape		Karen and Scott MacCrone 2017		3 Couple Longways permutation: 231
Casey Shaye		Deanna St. Amand 2019		3 Couple Longways permutation: 312

D

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
The Dean Bridge of Edinburgh		Alec Hay 1967		Triple Minor
Diamonds are Forever		Roberta Gotfried 2016		4 Couple Longways permutation: 2413

E

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
El Camino Real		Robb Quint ~2016		3 Couple Longways permutation: 231

F

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Farewell to Balfour Road		Andrew Buxton 2018		5 Couple Longways
The Fisherman's Dancing Daughters		Denise Peet 2025		Triple Minor
Flight to Melbourne		Shirley Campbell ~2002		Square permutation: 2341
From Wandsworth		Joseph Pimentel 2018	Goldcrest	Duple Minor

G

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Gaelforce Wind		Derek Haynes 1996		Triple Minor
Gang the Same Gate		Milton Levy 1990		Triple Minor
Glastonbury Tor		Duncan Brown 2001		Triple Minor
The Grey Wanderer		Iain Boyd 1982		4 Couple Longways permutation: 2413

H

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Hay's Australian Ladies		Alec Hay 1966		4 Couple Longways permutation: 2341
Home Again		Brooke Friendly/Chris Sackett 2005		Duple Minor
The House Keys of Lisbon		Murrough Landon 2020		3 Couple Circle permutation: 312

I

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
It's About Time		Elaine Brunken 2013		Triple Minor
Itchy Feet		John Walton 2014		Triple Minor

L

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Lady in Red		Simon Scott 2004		5 Couple Longways permutation: 24153
The Library of Birmingham		Kenneth J Reid 2015		4 Couple Longways permutation: 3142
The Longest Night		Chris Sackett/Brooke Friendly 2014		Duple Minor

M

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Many Happy Returns ~ Briscoe		Melbourne Briscoe 1995		Triple Minor
Marion's Medley		Judi Hallenbeck 2009		Triple Minor

P

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Pilot Rock		Chris Sackett/Brooke Friendly 2017		Duple Minor
Pluck Me a Fig		Anna Rain 2011		Duple Minor

R

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Reel Parenting		Laura Husman 2015		Triple Minor
Les Remparts de Séville		Aliénor Latour 2014		Triple Minor
Rendez-vous à Vichy		Aliénor Latour 2016		Triple Minor
Revelations		Jenna Simpson 2017		Duple Minor
The Royal Road		Robb Quint ~2016		3 Couple Longways permutation: 231
Ruby Wilkinson's Farewell to Cranshaws		Alasdair Brown 2015		4 Couple Longways permutation: 2413

S

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Sea Shadows		Chris Sackett/Brooke Friendly 2013		3 Couple Longways permutation: 231
Slytherin House		Chris Ronald 2016		Triple Minor
Smiling Lila		Donald J Bartlett 2017		Triple Minor
Something in the Air		Pam Stephens 2019		S8×32 2C/4C

T

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
The Tea Pottery		Duncan Brown ~2020		Square
Three Mixed		George Williams 2025	Colin Hume	Triple Minor
Trip to Skye		Renée Camus 2023		Duple Minor
Triple Minor Mixer		George Williams 2025	Colin Hume	Triple Minor

V

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Venables		Joseph Pimentel 2018	Goldcrest	Duple Minor
Vines Entwined		Dan Blim 2024	Frank Hoppe	Duple Minor

W

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
We've Nae Electric		Gary Coull 2004		R5×32 5C permutation: 24153
Well Done Jack		Nathaniel Kynaston 1718 Andrew Shaw 2002 Playford Assembly	Bare Necessities	Duple 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.

Set And Link

An online definition may be found here.

Bars: 4.

In a set and link, everyone takes hands on the side and sets to partner, the all drop hands. In a two couple set and link the people on the right end of their lines cast right to the other end of their line, while the people on the left end of the lines spin up or down through the center to the other end of the line.

In a three couple set and link life is more complicated, and the dancers switch orientations as well as positions. The person on the left end of the line still twirls through the center to the other end of her/his line and then faces up or down (back the way they came from). The people in the middle cast right and chase a quarter round the set, ending at top or bottom, on the center line, facing in to the set. The people on the right end of the line also cast right, and move to the other end of their sideline.

A 3 couple set and link is often done twice (to get everyone back in the normal orientation, albeit diametrically opposite where they started.

A four couple set and link is like the 2 couple in that it retains the same orientation. Here the people at the ends of the sidelines cast or twirl one place, while the people in the middle positions cast or twirl two places (so ends become new middles, and middles become new ends).

History

According to the SCDDB John Drewry claims that "set and link" was invented by Alec Hay.

Note. 1 These dances were devised between Spring 1991 and June 1992 i.e. they come after the printing of the Donside Book. Many of them were for use during a visit to New Zealand and California in October-November 1991. The New Zealand connection is emphasised by the inclusion of "set and link" which was devised by Alec Hay of Auckland. Alec said, when I met him, that he prefers dancers NOT TO HOLD HANDS when linking.

— The Bankhead Book Part 2, John Drewry, 1991-1992

Looking at Alan Hay's dances, the first use I have found is Australian Ladies, 1966. The first example I have found in an RSCDS Book is in Book 23, 1967, again by Alec Hay, The Dean Bridge of Edinburgh. In both of these the two couple form is used.

The earliest 3 couple Set and Link I've found is in Gang the Same Gate, in RSCDS Book 36 (1990).

The only 4 couple set and link I know of is in The Library of Birmingham, devised 2015.

This figure makes an occasional appearance in English Country Dance, Andrew Shaw's interpretation of Kynaston's Well Done Jack (2002) is the first use I know of it, followed by Brooke Friendly & Chris Sackett's Home Again in 2005.

In his dance Fine Companion Waltz (2008) Gary Roodman describes the figure without naming it. When I asked him if he were using the Scottish figure, he said he hadn't heard of it when he wrote the dance. So I guess he developed it independently.

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