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A

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Air Pants		Lisa Greenleaf (date unknown)		Duple Minor
Always Love Contra		Jacqui Grennan 2019		Becket
Ann's Accord		Jenna Simpson 2018		Duple Minor
Anton's Surprise		Pat Shaw 1964		Duple Minor
Appetizer		Scott Higgs (date unknown)		Duple Minor

B

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Back Road to Ayer		Lisa Greenleaf ~1993		Duple Minor
Bayswater Breakdown		Colin Hume 1980	Kafoozalum	Duple Minor
Becky's Becket		David Zinkin (date unknown)		Becket
The Beekeepers' Dream		Vic Ceder 2019		Becket
Blackbird Pie		Joseph Pimentel 2001	Goldcrest	Duple Minor
Boiling Mud Boiling Mud Greg Bryne (date unknown) Duple Minor Boiling Mud ~ modified Greg Bryne (date unknown) Duple Minor
Bouncing Back Again		Eric Black 2010		Becket CCW

C

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
California Twirlin'		Janet Levatin (date unknown)		Duple Minor
Chinese New Year		Chris Page 2010		Duple Minor
Concordia Reel		Lou Shapiro ~1983		Triple Minor

D

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Dandies' Hornpipe ~ Duple		Traditional ~1820 Ralph Page 1968 Cracking Chestnuts		Duple Minor
Dog Leap Stairs		Gary Roodman 2023	Anna Patton, Eric Martin, and Karen Axelrod	Duple Minor
Double Chocolate		Jim Kitch ~1993		Quadruple Minor
Double Mud Pig		Rick Mohr 2012		Becket

E

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Easy Living		Al Olson ~1983		Triple Minor

F

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
The First of October		Philippe Callens 1989	Odd Sundays Garage Band	Duple Minor
Flying Buttress		Jean Gorrindo (date unknown)		Becket
Food, Sex, and Beer		Carol Ormand 2008		Duple Minor
Forgotten Treasure		Beth Parkes (date unknown)		Duple Minor
Fuerst Things Fuerst		Will Mentor (date unknown)		Becket

G

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Golden Gate		Jacqui Grennan 2017		Duple Minor
Golden Gate (Marr)		Jacqui Grennan 2017 Frannie Marr		Duple Minor
The Good Life		Bob Isaacs (date unknown)		Becket
Greetings		Toni Barone (date unknown)		Duple Minor

H

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Heyallemande		Jim Hemphill (date unknown)		Duple Minor
Hoedown on the Down Low		Jean Gorrindo (date unknown)		Duple Minor
Hume Fogg Reel		Susan Kevra (date unknown)		Becket

J

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Jacki's Jig		Colin Hume 1980	Kafoozalum	Duple Minor
Jacqui's Dolphin Yey		Seth Tepfer 2018	Bonnie Insull and Susan McNeill	Becket

K

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Keys in the Fridge		Gary Roodman 1992		Duple Minor
Kim's Game		Colin Hume 1995	Masquerade	Four Face Four

L

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Labor of Love		Kathy Anderson (date unknown)		Duple Minor
Little-Good Harbor		Al Olsen ~1983		Triple Minor
Lizzie's Delight		Dave Colstock (date unknown)		Becket
Loon on the Lake		Nathaniel Jack (date unknown)		Becket

M

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Mad Robin in Love		Greg Frock (date unknown)		Duple Minor
Matthew Just In Time		David Kaynor (date unknown)		Duple Minor
Microcasmic		Ann Fallon (date unknown)		3 Couple Longways permutation: 231
Misunderstood Loon		Nathaniel Jack 2019 SBCDS 2019		Becket
Mr. Mozart's Rant		Colin Hume 1985	Wild Thyme	Duple Minor

N

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
New England Sweethearts		Linda Leslie (date unknown)		Duple Minor

O

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Ockham's Razor		Don Lennartson ~1993		Duple Minor
Oh Geez!		Joseph Pimentel 2003		Duple Minor

Q

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Queen of Heart		Gary Roodman 1992		Duple Minor

R

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Rattlesnake Rag		Jeff Spiro (date unknown)		Duple Minor
Roll 'N Go		Vic Ceder 2019		Becket
Roll Down		Mike Richardson ~1992		Duple Minor
Rolling Shadow		Vic Ceder 2019		Becket

S

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Sasna's Swing		Joseph Pimentel 2004		Duple Minor
Scooter		Tom Hinds (date unknown)		Becket CCW
Virginia Reel Virginia Reel Thompson ~1770 Longways as many as will permutation: 23451
Spinner's Delight		Vic Ceder 2019		Becket
Splash in the Puddle		Howard P. Slosek ~1993		Duple Minor
Square Line Special		Gary Roodman 1987	Anna Patton, Naomi Morse, and Peter Barnes	4 Couple Longways permutation: 2413
Star Trek		Mike Richardson (date unknown)		Becket
Swinging in the Hey		Family Week, Pinewoods 1989		Duple Minor

T

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Take the Gent		Vic Ceder 2019		Becket
Textiles or Furs		Mike Richardson 1989		Duple Minor
There is no Way to Peace; Peace is the Way		Erik Hoffman 1992		Becket
There You Go		Sue Rosen (date unknown)		Duple Minor
Tilt-A-Whirl		Martha Wild (date unknown)		Duple Minor
To Have and to Hold		Don Flaherty (date unknown)		Becket CCW
Two Hands Here, Two Hands There		Vic Ceder 2019		Becket
Two Steps Forward		Chris Page (date unknown)		Becket

V

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Virginia Reel Virginia Reel Thompson ~1770 Longways as many as will permutation: 23451

W

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Washington Quickstep		Elias Howe 1858 Smukler & Millstone ~2008 Cracking Chestnuts		Duple Minor
Will o' the Wisp		Jenna Simpson 2020		Duple Minor
Winter in Summerland		Jeff Spero & James Hudson (date unknown)		Becket
Witches' Cauldron		Kiston Koths 1988		Duple Minor

Z

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
The Zen of Dance		Chris Page (date unknown)		Duple Minor

Number of dances	Number of versions	Number with music
74	75	9

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.

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Long Lines Forward And Back

Bars: 4.

Move in to the middle, and fall back, taking hands with neighbors both inside and outside the minor set.

History

Something very interesting happened in Contra Dancing between 1956 and 1983. In Rickey Holden's The Contra Dance Book, 1956, he uses the call "forward four and back again" (or "forward six" for triple minors), but in Larry Jennings' Zesty Contras, 1982 these two calls have completely vanished and been replaced by "Long lines forward and back".

Somewhere between these two publications the integrity of the minor set ruptured and people reached to take hands with those in other minor sets.

Now Chorus Jig had become a duple minor by Holden's day, so it's contra corners figure reached outside the minor set, but nothing else did. Perhaps it was Becket Reel, 1957 which made people look outside the minor set?

See Also

• Forward and Back

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