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Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
4 for the Gospel Makers		Fried de Metz Herman 1994		Duple Minor
40 Years of Penguin Pam		Seth Tepfer ~2019		Becket

A

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Adam and Eve		Lloyd Shaw 1939		Square
Adelè's Delight		Ann Higley 1996	Masquerade	3 Couple Longways permutation: 231
Air Pants		Lisa Greenleaf (date unknown)		Duple Minor
The Albert Memorial Square		Pat Shaw ~1971		Square
All the way to Beckenham		Colin Hume 1980	Kafoozalum	Duple Minor
Always Love Contra		Jacqui Grennan 2019		Becket
The American Husband		Pat Shaw 1977	Colin Hume	Triple Minor
And Now, the Fourcast		Gary Roodman 1992		4 Couple Longways Becket permutation: 4123
Anna Turns Five		Gary Roodman 2012	Cilantrio (Karen Axelrod, Peter Barnes, and Mary Lea)	5 Couple Circle
Another Cure For The Claps		Bob Isaacs (date unknown) Rich Goss		Duple Minor
Anton's Surprise		Pat Shaw 1964		Duple Minor
Apothecary Reel		Ted Sannella 1982		Duple Minor
Appetizer		Scott Higgs (date unknown)		Duple Minor
Appin's Dance		Joseph Pimentel 2004		Duple Minor
Arkansas Traveller		Elias Howe 1858 George Williams 2022	Colin Hume	Triple Minor

B

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Back Road to Ayer		Lisa Greenleaf ~1993		Duple Minor
Back Road to Bolton		Lisa Greenleaf ~1993		Duple Minor
A Balanced Tern		Joseph Pimentel 1999		Duple Minor
Banjo in a Bear Suit		Brooke Friendly/Chris Sackett 2010		Square
Banks of the Dee		Ralph Page 1949 Rickey Holden 1956		Duple Minor
Barbarella		Tom Thoreau ~2008		Becket
Barry's Best		Al Brundage 1952		Triple Minor
Baskets of Brew		Al Olsen ~1983		Triple Minor
Bayswater Breakdown		Colin Hume 1980	Kafoozalum	Duple Minor
Beaux of Oak Hill		Elias Howe 1862 Smukler & Millstone ~2008		Duple Minor
Becket Reel		Herbie Gaudreau ~1957		Becket
Becky's Becket		David Zinkin (date unknown)		Becket
The Beekeepers' Dream		Vic Ceder 2019		Becket
Bell of Creation		Pat Shaw ~1970		Four Face Four
La Belle Frêne		Hezekiah Cantelo 1785 George Williams 2022		Triple Minor
Birdie in a Cage		Lloyd Shaw 1939		Square
The Birkshire Tragedy The Birkshire Tragedy ~ Double Pat Shaw 1971 Duple Minor The Birkshire Tragedy ~ Single Pat Shaw 1971 Duple Minor
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
Bonnets So Blue		English Traditional ~1909 Cecil Sharp 1909		Duple Minor
Bonny Breast Knot		English Traditional (date unknown) Maud Karpeles & Cecil Sharp ~1930		3 Couple Longways permutation: 231
Border Reel		Wright 1740 Bob Lilley ~2023		Duple Minor
Bouncing Back Again		Eric Black 2010		Becket CCW
The Boys of Wexford		Marjorie Heffer & William Porter 1932		3 Couple Circle
Brace Yourself		Scott Higgs 2016		Duple Minor
Brenda's Brainbender		Bob Lilley 1999		Duple Minor
Brighton Camp		English Traditional ~1909 Cecil Sharp 1909		Longways as many as will
The Broadstairs Barn-Dance		Colin Hume 1984	Wild Thyme	Circle as many as will
Buffalo Gals		Tommy Dandurand 1927		Square
The Bunch of Fives		Colin Hume 1985	Wild Thyme	Custom permutation: 41532
The Butterfly		English Traditional ~1909 Cecil Sharp 1909		Duple Minor
Butterfly Reel		Eric Black 2002		Duple Minor
Buzzsaw Reel		Herbie Gaudreau ~1957		Becket

C

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
California Twirlin'		Janet Levatin (date unknown)		Duple Minor
Camille's Quadrille		Walter Lenk ~1993		Square
Le Carillon de Dunkerque		Elias Howe 1862		Square
Castner's Contra		Rich Gardner ~1983		Triple Minor
Cellar Door		Timothy Grant 1989		Becket
Champagne		Jenna Simpson 2014	Odd Sundays Garage Band	Duple Minor
Changeling Intuition		Joseph Pimentel 2004	Goldcrest	Duple Minor
Chinese New Year		Chris Page 2010		Duple Minor
Chippenham Chaser		Colin Hume 1996		4 Couple Longways permutation: 3421
Chorus Jig (duple)		Saltator 1802 Cracking Chestnuts		Duple Minor
Church in the Highlands		Fried de Metz Herman 1992		Square
Circassian Circle ~ Burchenal		G.M.S. Chivers 1822 Elizabeth Burchenal 1918	Colin Hume	Duple Minor
Circassian Circle - CDM		Maud Karpeles 1928 Colin Hume 2024	Colin Hume	Circle as many as will
The Clockmender's Jig		Colin Andrews ~1986		6 Couple Rectangle permutation: 612345
Coconut Cream Pie		Lynn Ackerson (date unknown)		Four Face Four
Concordia Reel		Lou Shapiro ~1983		Triple Minor
The Connectrix		Rick Mohr 2000		Duple Minor
Contra in a Teacup		George Williams 2019		Four Face Four
Contra Relay		George Williams 2019		Four Face Four
The Corkscrew Jig		Colin Andrews ~1986		Triple Minor
Cranky Ingenuity		Bill Olson (date unknown)		Duple Minor
Crazy Nella		Vic Ceder 2019		Duple Minor
The Crooked Stovepipe #1		Ralph Page 1949		Square
Cure For The Claps		Bob Isaacs (date unknown)		Duple Minor
Divide the Ring and Cut Away Four Divide the Ring and Cut Away Four Lloyd Shaw 1939 Square

D

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Dandies' Hornpipe Dandies' Hornpipe ~ Duple Traditional ~1820 Ralph Page 1968 Cracking Chestnuts Duple Minor Dandies' Hornpipe ~ Triple Traditional ~1820 Ralph Page 1968 Cracking Chestnuts Triple Minor
The David Circle		Gary Roodman 1987		Lines of Four
David's Good Man David's Good Man David Smukler ~1995 Bare Necessities Duple Minor
Debbie's Dilemma		Vic Ceder 2019		Becket
Dip and Dive		Richard Kraus 1956		Square
Dipping & Diving in the Brew		Al Olson ~1983		Triple Minor
Divide the Ring and Cut Away Four Divide the Ring and Cut Away Four Lloyd Shaw 1939 Square
Double Allemande		Vic Ceder 2019		Short Waves
Double Chocolate		Jim Kitch ~1993		Quadruple Minor
Double Chocolate for Renée		Joseph Pimentel 2019		Duple Minor
Double Circle		Vic Ceder 2019		Becket
Double Mud Pig		Rick Mohr 2012		Becket
Double Trouble		Colin Hume 1993	Masquerade	4 Couple Longways permutation: 2341
Dudley's Reel		Gary Roodman 1987		Rotated Triple Minor

E

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Easy Living		Al Olson ~1983		Triple Minor
Easy Schmeezy		Vic Ceder 2019		Duple Minor
Emerald Isle		Gary Roodman 1999		Becket
Equal Opportunity		Jeff Spiro (date unknown)		Duple Minor

F

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Fair Play		Jenna Simpson 2012		Duple Minor
Fast Living		David Kirchner (date unknown)		Four Face Four
Him and Her Him and Her ~ Shaw Lloyd Shaw 1939 Square Lady Round the Lady - Ford Benjamin B Lovett 1925 Colin Hume Square Lady Round the Lady - Hume Ralph Page 1956 Colin Hume 2022 Colin Hume Square Lady Round the Lady - Page Ralph Page 1956 Colin Hume 2022 Colin Hume Square
First Hey		Paul Balliet (date unknown)		Duple Minor
Flapjack Express		Joseph Pimentel (date unknown)		Short Waves
The Flowers of Edinburgh ~ Sharp		English Traditional ~1909 Cecil Sharp 1909	Colin Hume	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
Forward up six		Lloyd Shaw 1939		Square
Four for Four		Gary Roodman 2018		Four Face Four
Four Gents Lead Out		Lloyd Shaw 1939		Square
Four Ladies to the Center Four Ladies to the Center ~ Ford Benjamin B Lovett 1925 Square
French Four		Elias Howe 1858 Smukler & Millstone ~2008 Cracking Chestnuts		Duple Minor
The Friday Sicilian		Fried de Metz Herman 1998		Duple Minor
Fuerst Things Fuerst		Will Mentor (date unknown)		Becket

G

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Galax		Cary Ravitz 2008		Becket
Galopede		English Traditional ~1909 Cecil Sharp 1909		Longways as many as will permutation: 23451
Genet's Recall Genet's Recall ~ Duple Traditional 1799 Ralph Page ~1965 Cracking Chestnuts Duple Minor Genet's Recall ~ Triple Traditional 1799 Ralph Page ~1965 Cracking Chestnuts Triple Minor
The Geud Contra of Ballangigh The Geud Contra of Ballangigh Peter Foster 2006 Bare Necessities Duple Minor David's Good Man David Smukler ~1995 Bare Necessities Duple Minor Goodman's Fancy Richard Castner 1952 Bare Necessities Duple Minor The Geud Contra of Ballangigh Peter Foster 2006 Bare Necessities Duple Minor
The Girl I Left Behind Me #1		Duke Miller 1949 Ralph Page 1949		Square
Going at Sixty		Colin Hume 2007	Colin Hume	Custom
Golden Gate		Jacqui Grennan 2017		Duple Minor
Golden Gate (Marr)		Jacqui Grennan 2017 Frannie Marr		Duple Minor
Good Girl		John Schell 1890 Rickey Holden 1956		Duple Minor
The Good Life		Bob Isaacs (date unknown)		Becket
Goodman's Fancy Goodman's Fancy Richard Castner 1952 Bare Necessities Duple Minor
Grand Square Contra		Jacob Bloom (date unknown)		Four Face Four
Grapevine Twist ~ Standard		Lloyd Shaw 1939		Square
Grapevine Twist - Coffman		Charlotte Coffman ~1930 Lloyd Shaw 1939		Square
Green Mountain Volunteers		Elizabeth Burchenal 1918 Smukler & Millstone ~2008		Duple Minor
The Green-Eyed Girl		Jim Kitch ~1993		Duple Minor
Greetings		Toni Barone (date unknown)		Duple Minor

H

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Halcyon Days		Joseph Pimentel 2020	Goldcrest	Duple Minor
Hale Bopp Circle		Fried de Metz Herman 1997		Duple Minor
Half Moon		Elias Howe 1858		Triple Minor
Haste to the Wedding Haste to the Wedding ~ Sharp #1 English Traditional ~1909 Cecil Sharp 1909 Triple Minor Haste to the Wedding ~ Sharp #2 English Traditional ~1909 Cecil Sharp 1909 Duple Minor
A Health to all Good Dancers		Joseph Pimentel 2014		Duple Minor
Heartbeat Contra		Don Flaherty (date unknown)		Duple Minor
Her Man		Pat Shaw 1977	Colin Hume	Triple Minor
Hey is for Humpbacks		George Williams 2019		Four Face Four
Hey is for Humpbacks — Jacqui's version		George Williams 2019 Jacqui Grennan		Four Face Four
Heyallemande		Jim Hemphill (date unknown)		Duple Minor
Him and Her Him and Her ~ Shaw Lloyd Shaw 1939 Square
Hocus Pocus		Lisa Greenleaf (date unknown)		Duple Minor
Hoedown on the Down Low		Jean Gorrindo (date unknown)		Duple Minor
The Hopatcong Hop		Fried de Metz Herman 1991		Duple Minor
Hopkinton Lasses		Gary Roodman 2012		Duple Minor
Hotpoint Special		Joseph Pimentel 2005	Goldcrest	Becket CCW
Hull's Victory ~ (Swing)		Essex Manuscript ~1830 Cracking Chestnuts		Duple Minor
Hume Fogg Reel		Susan Kevra (date unknown)		Becket
Hunt the Squirrel ~ 1909		English Traditional ~1909 Cecil Sharp 1909	A Playford Ball Bare Necessities	Triple Minor
Huntsmen's Chorus Huntsmen's Chorus ~ Improper Elias Howe 1862 David Kaynor Cracking Chestnuts Triple Minor Huntsmen's Chorus ~ Proper Elias Howe 1862 Cracking Chestnuts Triple Minor

I

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
I-95 Blues		Rich Goss & Chuck Abell (date unknown)		Short Waves
If I Had Maggie in the Wood		Colin Hume 1985	Wild Thyme	Duple Minor
Independence Day		Darren Gallina (date unknown)		Square
The Installation		Thompson 1772 Tom Cook 1979 Playford Ball	Bare Necessities	3 Couple Longways permutation: 231
Instant Mix		Tom Cook 1993		Circle as many as will

J

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Jack's Own Circle		Cathy Stephens ~1993		Duple Minor
Jacqui's Dolphin Yey		Seth Tepfer 2018	Bonnie Insull and Susan McNeill	Becket
Jamie Allen Jamie Allen ~ Improper Elias Howe 1862 David Kaynor Cracking Chestnuts Triple Minor Jamie Allen ~ Proper Elias Howe 1862 Cracking Chestnuts Triple Minor
Jealous Sally		Keith Hunt 1970		Duple Minor
Jimmy Allen Jimmy Allen ~ Improper Elias Howe 1862 David Kaynor Cracking Chestnuts Triple Minor Jimmy Allen ~ Proper Elias Howe 1862 Cracking Chestnuts Triple Minor
John's Favorite		Pinewoods class & John Krumm 1989		Square
Johnson City Circle		Gary Roodman 2000	Cilantrio	5 Couple Circle
Joyride		Erik Weberg 2007		Duple Minor
Jubilee Jig		Fried de Metz Herman 1989		Circle of trios

K

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Kernan's Contra		Ken Kernan 1977 Al Olson ~1983		Triple Minor
Kettle Drum		John Playford 1651 Scott Pfitzinger ~2019	MGM and Reunion	Square
Keys in the Fridge		Gary Roodman 1992		Duple Minor
Kim's Game		Colin Hume 1995	Masquerade	Four Face Four
Kindred Spirits		Chris Page (date unknown)		Becket
Kindred Spirits (variant)		Chris Page (date unknown)		Becket
Kitchen Hornpipe		Ralph Page 1958		Triple Minor
Kylie's Homecoming		Jean Gorrindo (date unknown)		Duple Minor

L

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Labor of Love		Kathy Anderson (date unknown)		Duple Minor
Four Ladies to the Center Four Ladies to the Center ~ Ford Benjamin B Lovett 1925 Square
Lady of the Lake		Elias Howe 1858 Smukler & Millstone ~2008 Cracking Chestnuts		Duple Minor
Lady Round Lady Lady Round Lady ~ Dunlavy Tressie Dunlavy 1932 Colin Hume Square The Lady Round the Lady ~ Shaw Lloyd Shaw 1939 Colin Hume Square
Lady Round the Lady - Ford Lady Round the Lady - Ford Benjamin B Lovett 1925 Colin Hume Square Lady Round the Lady - Hume Ralph Page 1956 Colin Hume 2022 Colin Hume Square Lady Round the Lady - Page Ralph Page 1956 Colin Hume 2022 Colin Hume Square
The Lady Walks Around		Lloyd Shaw 1939		Square
Lady Walpole's Reel		Elias Howe 1862 Smukler & Millstone ~2008 Cracking Chestnuts		Duple Minor
Lamplighter's Hornpipe ~ Duple		Elias Howe 1858 Cracking Chestnuts		Duple Minor
Levi Jackson Rag		Pat Shaw 1974		Custom
Levi Jackson Rose		Bernard Chalk (and Berea College Dancers) 1984	Colin Hume	5 Couple Circle
Little Bug Reel		Gary Roodman 1987		Duple Minor
Little-Good Harbor		Al Olsen ~1983		Triple Minor
Lizzie's Delight		Dave Colstock (date unknown)		Becket
Long Live London		Pat Shaw 1971	Bare Necessities	Duple Minor
Loon on the Lake		Nathaniel Jack (date unknown)		Becket

M

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Mad For You		Vic Ceder 2019		Short Waves
The Mad Hatter		Bob Lilley 1999		Duple Minor
Mad Robin in Love		Greg Frock (date unknown)		Duple Minor
Madly Madly		Vic Ceder 2019		Becket
Manga Tak		Ron Buchanan (date unknown)		Duple Minor
Marshmallows in Flight		Rich Goss (date unknown)		Duple Minor
Matthew Just In Time		David Kaynor (date unknown)		Duple Minor
Meg Merrilees ~ Karpeles		J. P. Boulogne 1827 Maud Karpeles 1936		Duple Minor
The Merry Haymakers ~ Burchenal		Elias Howe 1858 Elizabeth Burchenal 1918		Duple Minor
Mevagissey Car Park Mevagissey Car Park Gary Roodman 2011 Cilantrio (Karen Axelrod, Peter Barnes, and Mary Lea) 4 Couple Longways Becket Mevagissey Car Park ~ Revisited Gary Roodman 2012 Cilantrio (Karen Axelrod, Peter Barnes, and Mary Lea) 4 Couple Longways Becket
Microcasmic		Ann Fallon (date unknown)		3 Couple Longways permutation: 231
Midwest Folklore		Orace Johnson (date unknown)		Becket
Mirror Test		George Williams 2019		Four Face Four
Miss Sayers' Allemand		Thomas Budd 1781 Bernard Bentley 1962 Playford Ball		3 Couple Longways permutation: 231
Misunderstood Loon		Nathaniel Jack 2019 SBCDS 2019		Becket
Moll Peatly, the New Way		Henry Playford 1701 Michael Barraclough ~2017		Duple Minor
Monday Long 8		Fried de Metz Herman 1998		4 Couple Longways permutation: 2341
A Mooed Point		Erik Hoffman (date unknown)		Duple Minor
More Madness		Vic Ceder 2019		Duple Minor
Morning Star		Elizabeth Burchenal 1918 Smukler & Millstone ~2008		Duple Minor
Mountain Hornpipe		Elias Howe 1862 George Williams 2021		Triple Minor
Mrs. Saxton's Magic Carpet Ride		Wendy Graham 2010		Lines of Four

N

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Nancy's Fancy		English Traditional ~1909 Cecil Sharp 1909		Duple Minor
New England Sweethearts		Linda Leslie (date unknown)		Duple Minor
The New Man		Colin Hume 1987	The Rampions	3 Couple Longways
The New Wood Floor		Gary Roodman 1992		Lines of Four
Nineteen		Bob Lilley 1987		Duple Minor
Nottingham Swing		Traditional (date unknown) Douglas Kennedy 1964	Colin Hume	Duple Minor
Now We Are Four		Eric Weberg (date unknown)		Becket

O

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
O'Donnell Anew		Tony Saletan ~1983		Facing Couples permutation: 21
The Ocean Wave ~ Shaw		Lloyd Shaw 1939		Square
Ockham's Razor		Don Lennartson ~1993		Duple Minor
October Flurry		Joe Baker ~1993		Duple Minor
Oh Geez!		Joseph Pimentel 2003		Duple Minor
Old Arkansaw		Lloyd Shaw 1939		Square
Old Dan Tucker ~ Link		Charles Link 1893 George Williams 2022		Custom
Old Time Elixer #2		Linda Leslie (date unknown)		Becket
One Hundred		Vic Ceder 2019		Duple Minor
The Original Tampete The Original Tampete ~ Burnton Burnton 1851 George Williams 2024 Four Face Four

P

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Party Circle		Fried de Metz Herman 1990		Circle as many as will
Peter's Maze		Colin Hume 1985	Wild Thyme	Square
Pieces of Eight		Mike Richardson ~1992		Duple Minor
Please Don't Call Me Surely		Lynn Ackerson (date unknown)		Duple Minor
Pop Goes The Weasel Pop Goes The Weasel ~ Sharp #1 English Traditional 1852 Cecil Sharp 1909 Colin Hume Duple Minor Pop Goes The Weasel ~ Sharp #2 English Traditional 1852 Cecil Sharp 1909 Colin Hume Duple Minor
Poussette Reflection		Vic Ceder 2019		Duple Minor
Poussettronella		Charlie Abell 2019		Becket
Promenheyde		George Williams 2019 Jacqui Grennan		Four Face Four
Purple Heys		Mike Richardson ~1992		Duple Minor

Q

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

R

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Ramsay Chase		Joseph Pimentel 1999	Goldcrest	Duple Minor
Rational Reel		Gary Roodman 1987		Quadruple Minor Becket
Rattlesnake Rag		Jeff Spiro (date unknown)		Duple Minor
Read Between The Lines		Bob Isaacs (date unknown)		Becket
Reciprocity		Jenna Simpson 2014		Duple Minor
Ribbon Dance		English Traditional ~1909 Cecil Sharp 1909		Longways as many as will permutation: 23451
Right and Left		Lloyd Shaw 1939		Square
Right Hand Star Right Hand Star ~ Shaw Lloyd Shaw 1939 Square
Rise and Run		Gary Roodman 1987		4 Couple Longways Becket permutation: 2341
Rodney's Earring		Merilee Karr ~1993		Duple Minor
Roll 'N Go		Vic Ceder 2019		Becket
Roll Down		Mike Richardson ~1992		Duple Minor
Rolling Shadow		Vic Ceder 2019		Becket
Rory O'More ~ Contra		Elias Howe 1858 Cracking Chestnuts		Duple Minor
Rosemary Hills Reel		Jim Kitch ~1993		Becket
Round Robin		Colin Andrews ~1986		Circle as many as will
The Rumpus ~ Duple		Bob Lilley 1995		Duple Minor

S

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Sasna's Swing		Joseph Pimentel 2004		Duple Minor
Saturday Night Fever		Erik Hoffman (date unknown)		Duple Minor
The Saturday Triad		Fried de Metz Herman 1998	Bonnie Insull & Susan McNeil	3 Couple Longways permutation: 231
Say “I Do”		Gary Roodman 2005	Anna Patton, Erica & Naomi Morse, and Peter Barnes	4 Couple Longways Becket
Scooter		Tom Hinds (date unknown)		Becket CCW
Shirley's Jig		Colin Hume 1980	Kafoozalum	4 Couple Longways permutation: 2341
Sicilian Circle ~ Burchenal		G.M.S. Chivers 1822 Elizabeth Burchenal 1918	Colin Hume	Duple Minor
Slide and Slam		AmWeek Choreography Wkshp 2017		Becket
Social Symmetry		Gary Roodman 2012		4 Couple Longways Becket
Soldier's Joy ~ Chestnuts		Elias Howe 1858 Smukler & Millstone ~2008 Cracking Chestnuts		Duple Minor
Sparkle		Vic Ceder 2019		Duple Minor
Speed the Plough		English Traditional ~1909 Cecil Sharp 1909		Duple Minor
Spinner's Delight		Vic Ceder 2019		Becket
Spring Blooms		Linda Leslie (date unknown)		Four Face Four
Square Line Special		Gary Roodman 1987	Anna Patton, Naomi Morse, and Peter Barnes	4 Couple Longways permutation: 2413
Star Birth		Michael Fuerst ~1993		Duple Minor
Star by the Right		Lloyd Shaw 1939		Square
Star Trek		Mike Richardson (date unknown)		Becket
Step and Fetch Her		English Traditional ~1909 Cecil Sharp 1909		Triple Minor
String of Swings		Rick Mohr & Bob Isaacs (date unknown)		Short Waves
Summer Circle		Fried de Metz Herman 2000		Becket
Summer Wedding Jig		Jenny Beer 2009	Odd Sundays Garage Band	Duple Minor
Sunflowers		Orly Krasner 2022		Duple Minor
Sunset Limited		Rick Mohr 2007		Becket CCW
A Sure Thing		Chris Page (date unknown)		Duple Minor
Swing Like Thunder		Richard Kraus 1956		Square
Swing Two Ladies		Ralph Page 1949		Square
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
Take the Lady		Vic Ceder 2019		Becket
Ted's Tempest Ted's Tempest Ted Sannella ~1983 Tempest La Tempete Originale ~ Hofer Mari Ruef Hofer 1917 George Williams 2024 Four Face Four Ted's Tempest Ted Sannella ~1983 Tempest The Original Tampete ~ Burnton Burnton 1851 George Williams 2024 Four Face Four Tom Pate Joseph Binns Hart ~1819 Sibyl Clark 1954 Four Face Four La Tempete Originale ~ Hofer Mari Ruef Hofer 1917 George Williams 2024 Four Face Four
Ten Year Tested		Colin Hume 1989	The Rampions	5 Couple Longways permutation: 54213
Texas Star		Lloyd Shaw 1939		Square
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
There's your Shadow		Vic Ceder 2019		Duple Minor
Three Hand Star		Ralph Page 1949		Square
Three Meet or The Pleasures of the Town		English Traditional ~1909 Cecil Sharp 1909		Triple Minor
Tica Tica Timing		Dean Snipes (date unknown)		Becket
Tilt-A-Whirl		Martha Wild (date unknown)		Duple Minor
Timber Salvage Reel		Ralph Page 1938		Duple Minor
Tink-A-Tink		English Traditional ~1909 Cecil Sharp 1909		Triple Minor
To Have and to Hold		Don Flaherty (date unknown)		Becket CCW
Tom Pate Tom Pate Joseph Binns Hart ~1819 Sibyl Clark 1954 Four Face Four
Top of the Deck		Gary Roodman 1992	Kate Barnes, and Mary Lea	4 Couple Longways permutation: 2341
Trip to Lambertville		Steve Zakon-Anderson (date unknown)		Duple Minor
Trip to Ridgewood		Fried de Metz Herman 1977		Duple Minor
Triple Play - Ceder		Vic Ceder (date unknown)		Becket
The Triumph ~ Sharp		Preston 1793 Cecil Sharp 1909		Triple Minor
Turns Galore		Vic Ceder 2019		Becket
Twiddley Diddely		Walter Lenk ~1993		Duple Minor
The Twist of Fate		Colin Hume 1980	Kafoozalum	Square
Two for the Road		Jim Kitch ~1993		Duple Minor
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
The Valentine's Day Massacre		Colin Hume 1986	The Rampions	Circle as many as will
The Vet's Revenge		Colin Hume 1992	Colin Hume	4 Couple Longways permutation: 3142
Virginia Roundabout		Colin Andrews ~1986		Circle as many as will

W

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Wait for the Wagon		Ralph Page 1949		Square
Waiting on the Corner		Gary Roodman 1992		4 Couple Longways Becket permutation: 4123
Walkaway		Pat Skelton 1980	Kafoozalum	Duple Minor
The Wampececk		Timothy Grant ~1993		Duple Minor
Washington Quickstep		Elias Howe 1858 Smukler & Millstone ~2008 Cracking Chestnuts		Duple Minor
We Won't Go Home Until Morning		English Traditional ~1909 Cecil Sharp 1909		Duple Minor
The Wedding Ring		Erik Hoffman (date unknown)		Circle as many as will
What Goes Around Comes Around		Bob Isaacs (date unknown)		Becket
What the Hey?		Vic Ceder 2019		Becket
Whip-poor-will		Joseph Pimentel 2004		Duple Minor
Whirl and Chase		Vic Ceder 2019		Becket
Will Ye No Come Back?		Mike Richardson ~1992		Becket
Will You Dance With Me?		Seth Tepfer (date unknown)		Becket
Winter in Summerland		Jeff Spero & James Hudson (date unknown)		Becket
Witches' Cauldron		Kiston Koths 1988		Duple Minor
Wizard's Walk		Ruth Unger 1993		Duple Minor
Woven Waves		Cary Ravitz 1999		Duple Minor

Y

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
You're among Friends		Bob Isaacs (date unknown)		Duple Minor
The Young Widow ~ Smukler		John Griffiths 1788 David Smukler 2005 Cracking Chestnuts	Bare Necessities	Triple Minor

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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
320	332	55

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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Swing

Bars: 2,4,6 or 8.

A couple stands in ballroom position and turns clockwise about their center, using either a walking step or a buzz step.

History

The partner swing is an essential part of a modern Contra Dance or Square Dance. A dance without a swing is greeted with dismay in our local contra group.

But the swing did not exist in Playford's day, nor in the early Regency period.

I assume the swing is a simplified offshoot of the waltz, a waltz without steps as it were. As far as I know people did not stand in what is now called "Ballroom Position" before the waltz, I'm sure that would have been quite shocking (as indeed the waltz was).

But when did the swing evolve?

Well, it is NOT in Wilson's list of country dance figures from 1808. And as I mentioned earlier there's nothing like it in Playford.

The Regency Dance site says that a dance from 1807 called The Russian Ambassador's Waltz was the first country dance where couples waltz briefly as part of the dance.

There was a style of quadrilles called "Waltz Quadrilles" where waltzing was treated as a figure of the quadrille, Chivers describes Les Valse Quadrilles as early as 1821 in "The Dancer's Guide".

The Complete Ball-Room Hand-Book, Elias Howe, Boston, 1858 includes a category called "Waltz Contra Dances" (page 97) where waltzing is an integral part of the dance, but the waltzing usually seems to involve going somewhere rather than the stationary partner swing.

Cinderrela Waltz
Form as for common Contra dance First lady and second gentleman balance and turn First gentleman and second lady balance and turn two couples waltz down the centre and back right and left four.

Wilson's list does define "Swing Corners" (page 33), this is not a "Swing" in the modern sense, just a turn. Swing is often used in the sense of a hand turn, David Wall's The Russian Dance from 1775 is the earliest example I've found so far.

Hillgrove, in The scholars' companion and ball-room vade mecum, New York, 1857, also uses uses "swing" to mean a hand turn in his descriptions of Contra Dances (page 78):

First couple give the right hand, and swing once and a half round;

Howe, in The Complete Ball-Room Hand-Book, Boston, 1858, uses "swing" in a number of senses:

• Circle—(page 18) swing six hands round
• Two hand turn—(page 27) swing to place with both hands
• Hand turn—(page 31) all balance and turn partners to place — first four lead to the right, balance and swing round to place
• Right hands across star—(page 34) four ladies cross right hands and swing half round
• pull-by—(page 38) First lady swing the right hand gentleman with the right hand, next with the left hand — and so with the others, swinging partner last
• Place someone—(page 45) the gentlemen... swing your partner to the centre
• Modern Swing?—(page 85) — first four cross hands half round, swing partners —

He does not define his terms, and uses the word "swing" in so many senses it can be hard to understand exactly what is meant, there are a few cases where he doesn't provide any context, and the word might have it's modern meaning. In the last case above, the dance is Arkansas Traveller and 60 years later Burchenal's version of that dance does have a partner swing in the same place, so perhaps Howe intends the modern meaning.. On the other hand Schell's Prompting: How to do it (Boston, ~1890) does not have a partner swing in this dance.

The term "swing" was still being used in the sense of a hand turn in Cowboy Dances, Lloyd Shaw, 1939 (page 50) when he discusses teaching allemande left to square dancers:

The caller will explain that the complete call is usually given in some such form as:

Allemande left with your left hand,
Then right hand partner and right and left grand,

but that until they get more used to the call and the idea he will use a simpler form which goes:

Swing your left hand lady with your left hand,
Then right hand partner and right and left grand,

And even today Square Dance uses "Swing through" to describe a series of pull-bies.

The first clear record I have of "swing" in the modern sense comes from Cecil Sharp's The Country Dance Book, part 1, 1909 where it is used in every single one of the dances in that work. He defines it as:

Partners meet, engage in waltz fashion, and dance round in a small circle between the lines of the General Set. At the beginning of the last bar they disengage, return to places, and bow to each other.

The step varies with the rhythm of the music, and may take any one of the three following forms: (1) The waltz step: (2) the polka step or a modification of it: (3) step and hop on alternate feet.

Country dancers sometimes, though very rarely, substitute for the Swing the more conventional Set or Set-to-partners, a figure which is familiar to all quadrille dancers. This was the invariable custom in the ball-room where the Swing, as described above, was quite unknown.

There was, however, a figure known to fashionable dancers as the Swing, but this was performed in quite another manner: Partners met, joined right hands, turned slowly round from right to left and returned to places.

Emma Burchenal in American Country Dances, 1918, defines Partner Swing (and Balance and Swing) on page xii.

The most usual way of executing the "Balance and Swing" to-day, is for partners to meet, take "ordinary dance position" (the usual way of holding partner for waltzing), and swing around vigorously with the buzz-step. Originally the "Balance" was executed before the swing, but for some reason this has been almost universally abandoned, so that the expression "Balance and Swing" now means nothing more that "Swing Partners".

If you look up Burchenal's dances in Howe you will find that many of the places where she has a "Balance and Swing" Howe has a simple "Balance" (Circassian Circle, The Merry Haymakers, etc.). Burchenal defines five different ways to "Balance" and perhaps this flexibility allowed it to become a swing?

In the square dance world the picture is mixed. Cecil Sharp does not describe it as part of The Kentucky Running Set (an early square dance) in 1918. Henry Ford/Lovett defines it in Good Morning (a collection of dances, including squares and contras) in 1925, and uses it in both squares and contras.

TURN PARTNERS—(4) Lady and gentlemen join both hands (shoulder high) and turn once around. To swing partner in waltz position, weight of body should rest on half of right foot, turning with toe of left foot.

Ida Levin does not use it in Kentucky Square Dances in 1928. Lloyd Shaw uses it in Cowboy Dances in 1939.

In summary

The word swing was not used (or very rarely) in the modern sense in the 1850s on either side of the Atlantic, but was used that way around 1910 on both sides. Swinging was an integral part of the English Country Dance tradition that Cecil Sharp found still extant, but after his revival that figure seems to have died away. It is almost never used in modern ECDs, though waltzing does occasionally get a look in. The Contra and Square Dance traditions of the US have continued to count swinging as an integral part of their repertory.

Mary McNab Dart in Contra Dance Choreography, a Reflection of Social Change, 1995, has an interesting discussion of how the swing continued to grow in popularity between 1950 and 1990.

Petronella Turn

The dance Petronella was devised by Nathaniel Gow in about 1820, and involved a signature movement which became known as the Petronella Turn. This has become integral to both modern Scottish and American Contra dancing (and is occasionally seen in English).

In modern Scottish a Petronella turn involves a pas-de-basque step to the right (ending facing out), followed by another pas-de-basque step which turns round 180 in place to face back in.

In modern Contra, the figure involves moving right while spinning approximately 360.

But if you look at the Lowes, who published in Edinburgh in 1831 they describe the figure as First couple chassé round to the right.

By ~1868 in Glasgow Wilcock says: First couple turn round to the right which might be a description of the modern contra way of doing it.

The first description I know of from the US is in The Pianist's Matinee: A Collection of Music for the Piano-Forte, Howe, Boston, 1868, where it is described as First couple turn round to the right, and set in centre of dance.

See Also

• Waltz

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