12 Progressive

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
The Birkshire Tragedy ~ Single		Pat Shaw 1971		Duple Minor

16 Progressive

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Nottingham Swing		Traditional (date unknown) Douglas Kennedy 1964	Colin Hume	Duple Minor
The Birkshire Tragedy ~ Double		Pat Shaw 1971		Duple Minor
The Broadstairs Barn-Dance		Colin Hume 1984	Wild Thyme	Circle as many as will

18 Progressive

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Moll Peatly, the New Way		Henry Playford 1701 Michael Barraclough ~2017		Duple Minor

24 Progressive

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Meg Merrilees ~ Karpeles		J. P. Boulogne 1827 Maud Karpeles 1936		Duple Minor
Bonnets So Blue		English Traditional ~1909 Cecil Sharp 1909		Duple Minor
Brighton Camp		English Traditional ~1909 Cecil Sharp 1909		Longways as many as will
The Butterfly		English Traditional ~1909 Cecil Sharp 1909		Duple Minor
Nancy's Fancy		English Traditional ~1909 Cecil Sharp 1909		Duple Minor
Ribbon Dance		English Traditional ~1909 Cecil Sharp 1909		Longways as many as will permutation: 23451

32 Non-Progressive

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
O'Donnell Anew		Tony Saletan ~1983		Facing Couples permutation: 21
Emerald Isle		Gary Roodman 1999		Becket

32 Progressive

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Air Pants		Lisa Greenleaf (date unknown)		Duple Minor
Another Cure For The Claps		Bob Isaacs (date unknown) Rich Goss		Duple Minor
Appetizer		Scott Higgs (date unknown)		Duple Minor
Becky's Becket		David Zinkin (date unknown)		Becket
Boiling Mud		Greg Bryne (date unknown)		Duple Minor
Boiling Mud ~ modified		Greg Bryne (date unknown)		Duple Minor
Bonny Breast Knot		English Traditional (date unknown) Maud Karpeles & Cecil Sharp ~1930		3 Couple Longways permutation: 231
California Twirlin'		Janet Levatin (date unknown)		Duple Minor
Coconut Cream Pie		Lynn Ackerson (date unknown)		Four Face Four
Cranky Ingenuity		Bill Olson (date unknown)		Duple Minor
Cure For The Claps		Bob Isaacs (date unknown)		Duple Minor
Equal Opportunity		Jeff Spiro (date unknown)		Duple Minor
Fast Living		David Kirchner (date unknown)		Four Face Four
First Hey		Paul Balliet (date unknown)		Duple Minor
Flapjack Express		Joseph Pimentel (date unknown)		Short Waves
Flying Buttress		Jean Gorrindo (date unknown)		Becket
Forgotten Treasure		Beth Parkes (date unknown)		Duple Minor
Fuerst Things Fuerst		Will Mentor (date unknown)		Becket
The Good Life		Bob Isaacs (date unknown)		Becket
Grand Square Contra		Jacob Bloom (date unknown)		Four Face Four
Greetings		Toni Barone (date unknown)		Duple Minor
Heartbeat Contra		Don Flaherty (date unknown)		Duple Minor
Heyallemande		Jim Hemphill (date unknown)		Duple Minor
Hocus Pocus		Lisa Greenleaf (date unknown)		Duple Minor
Hoedown on the Down Low		Jean Gorrindo (date unknown)		Duple Minor
Hume Fogg Reel		Susan Kevra (date unknown)		Becket
I-95 Blues		Rich Goss & Chuck Abell (date unknown)		Short Waves
Kindred Spirits		Chris Page (date unknown)		Becket
Kindred Spirits (variant)		Chris Page (date unknown)		Becket
Kylie's Homecoming		Jean Gorrindo (date unknown)		Duple Minor
Labor of Love		Kathy Anderson (date unknown)		Duple Minor
Lizzie's Delight		Dave Colstock (date unknown)		Becket
Loon on the Lake		Nathaniel Jack (date unknown)		Becket
Mad Robin in Love		Greg Frock (date unknown)		Duple Minor
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
Microcasmic		Ann Fallon (date unknown)		3 Couple Longways permutation: 231
Midwest Folklore		Orace Johnson (date unknown)		Becket
A Mooed Point		Erik Hoffman (date unknown)		Duple Minor
New England Sweethearts		Linda Leslie (date unknown)		Duple Minor
Now We Are Four		Eric Weberg (date unknown)		Becket
Old Time Elixer #2		Linda Leslie (date unknown)		Becket
Please Don't Call Me Surely		Lynn Ackerson (date unknown)		Duple Minor
Queen's Favorite		Traditional (date unknown)		Duple Minor
Rattlesnake Rag		Jeff Spiro (date unknown)		Duple Minor
Read Between The Lines		Bob Isaacs (date unknown)		Becket
Saturday Night Fever		Erik Hoffman (date unknown)		Duple Minor
Scooter		Tom Hinds (date unknown)		Becket CCW
Spring Blooms		Linda Leslie (date unknown)		Four Face Four
Star Trek		Mike Richardson (date unknown)		Becket
String of Swings		Rick Mohr & Bob Isaacs (date unknown)		Short Waves
A Sure Thing		Chris Page (date unknown)		Duple Minor
There You Go		Sue Rosen (date unknown)		Duple Minor
Tica Tica Timing		Dean Snipes (date unknown)		Becket
Tilt-A-Whirl		Martha Wild (date unknown)		Duple Minor
To Have and to Hold		Don Flaherty (date unknown)		Becket CCW
Trip to Lambertville		Steve Zakon-Anderson (date unknown)		Duple Minor
Triple Play - Ceder		Vic Ceder (date unknown)		Becket
Two Steps Forward		Chris Page (date unknown)		Becket
The Wedding Ring		Erik Hoffman (date unknown)		Circle as many as will
What Goes Around Comes Around		Bob Isaacs (date unknown)		Becket
Will You Dance With Me?		Seth Tepfer (date unknown)		Becket
Winter in Summerland		Jeff Spero & James Hudson (date unknown)		Becket
You're among Friends		Bob Isaacs (date unknown)		Duple Minor
The Zen of Dance		Chris Page (date unknown)		Duple Minor
Border Reel		Wright 1740 Bob Lilley ~2023		Duple Minor
Miss Sayers' Allemand		Thomas Budd 1781 Bernard Bentley 1962 Playford Ball		3 Couple Longways permutation: 231
The Young Widow ~ Smukler		John Griffiths 1788 David Smukler 2005 Cracking Chestnuts	Bare Necessities	Triple Minor
The Triumph ~ Sharp		Preston 1793 Cecil Sharp 1909		Triple Minor
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
Chorus Jig (duple)		Saltator 1802 Cracking Chestnuts		Duple Minor
Tom Pate		Joseph Binns Hart ~1819 Sibyl Clark 1954		Four Face Four
Dandies' Hornpipe ~ Duple		Traditional ~1820 Ralph Page 1968 Cracking Chestnuts		Duple Minor
Dandies' Hornpipe ~ Triple		Traditional ~1820 Ralph Page 1968 Cracking Chestnuts		Triple Minor
Circassian Circle ~ Burchenal		G.M.S. Chivers 1822 Elizabeth Burchenal 1918	Colin Hume	Duple Minor
Sicilian Circle ~ Burchenal		G.M.S. Chivers 1822 Elizabeth Burchenal 1918	Colin Hume	Duple Minor
Hull's Victory ~ (Swing)		Essex Manuscript ~1830 Cracking Chestnuts		Duple Minor
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
French Four		Elias Howe 1858 Smukler & Millstone ~2008 Cracking Chestnuts		Duple Minor
Half Moon		Elias Howe 1858		Triple Minor
Lady of the Lake		Elias Howe 1858 Smukler & Millstone ~2008 Cracking Chestnuts		Duple Minor
Lamplighter's Hornpipe ~ Duple		Elias Howe 1858 Cracking Chestnuts		Duple Minor
The Merry Haymakers ~ Burchenal		Elias Howe 1858 Elizabeth Burchenal 1918		Duple Minor
Rory O'More ~ Contra		Elias Howe 1858 Cracking Chestnuts		Duple Minor
Soldier's Joy ~ Chestnuts		Elias Howe 1858 Smukler & Millstone ~2008 Cracking Chestnuts		Duple Minor
Washington Quickstep		Elias Howe 1858 Smukler & Millstone ~2008 Cracking Chestnuts		Duple Minor
Beaux of Oak Hill		Elias Howe 1862 Smukler & Millstone ~2008		Duple Minor
Huntsmen's Chorus ~ Improper		Elias Howe 1862 David Kaynor Cracking Chestnuts		Triple Minor
Huntsmen's Chorus ~ Proper		Elias Howe 1862 Cracking Chestnuts		Triple Minor
Jamie Allen ~ Improper		Elias Howe 1862 David Kaynor Cracking Chestnuts		Triple Minor
Jamie Allen ~ Proper		Elias Howe 1862 Cracking Chestnuts		Triple Minor
Jimmy Allen ~ Improper		Elias Howe 1862 David Kaynor Cracking Chestnuts		Triple Minor
Jimmy Allen ~ Proper		Elias Howe 1862 Cracking Chestnuts		Triple Minor
Lady Walpole's Reel		Elias Howe 1862 Smukler & Millstone ~2008 Cracking Chestnuts		Duple Minor
Mountain Hornpipe		Elias Howe 1862 George Williams 2021		Triple Minor
Good Girl		John Schell 1890 Rickey Holden 1956		Duple Minor
The Flowers of Edinburgh ~ Sharp		English Traditional ~1909 Cecil Sharp 1909	Colin Hume	Duple Minor
Galopede		English Traditional ~1909 Cecil Sharp 1909		Longways as many as will permutation: 23451
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
Hunt the Squirrel ~ 1909		English Traditional ~1909 Cecil Sharp 1909	A Playford Ball Bare Necessities	Triple Minor
Speed the Plough		English Traditional ~1909 Cecil Sharp 1909		Duple Minor
Step and Fetch Her		English Traditional ~1909 Cecil Sharp 1909		Triple Minor
Three Meet or The Pleasures of the Town		English Traditional ~1909 Cecil Sharp 1909		Triple Minor
Tink-A-Tink		English Traditional ~1909 Cecil Sharp 1909		Triple Minor
We Won't Go Home Until Morning		English Traditional ~1909 Cecil Sharp 1909		Duple Minor
La Tempete Originale ~ Hofer		Mari Ruef Hofer 1917 George Williams 2024		Four Face Four
Green Mountain Volunteers		Elizabeth Burchenal 1918 Smukler & Millstone ~2008		Duple Minor
Morning Star		Elizabeth Burchenal 1918 Smukler & Millstone ~2008		Duple Minor
Circassian Circle - CDM		Maud Karpeles 1928 Colin Hume 2024	Colin Hume	Circle as many as will
Timber Salvage Reel		Ralph Page 1938		Duple Minor
Banks of the Dee		Ralph Page 1949 Rickey Holden 1956		Duple Minor
Barry's Best		Al Brundage 1952		Triple Minor
Goodman's Fancy		Richard Castner 1952	Bare Necessities	Duple Minor
Becket Reel		Herbie Gaudreau ~1957		Becket
Buzzsaw Reel		Herbie Gaudreau ~1957		Becket
Kitchen Hornpipe		Ralph Page 1958		Triple Minor
Anton's Surprise		Pat Shaw 1964		Duple Minor
Bell of Creation		Pat Shaw ~1970		Four Face Four
Jealous Sally		Keith Hunt 1970		Duple Minor
Long Live London		Pat Shaw 1971	Bare Necessities	Duple Minor
Levi Jackson Rag		Pat Shaw 1974		Custom
Kernan's Contra		Ken Kernan 1977 Al Olson ~1983		Triple Minor
Trip to Ridgewood		Fried de Metz Herman 1977		Duple Minor
All the way to Beckenham		Colin Hume 1980	Kafoozalum	Duple Minor
Bayswater Breakdown		Colin Hume 1980	Kafoozalum	Duple Minor
Shirley's Jig		Colin Hume 1980	Kafoozalum	4 Couple Longways permutation: 2341
Walkaway		Pat Skelton 1980	Kafoozalum	Duple Minor
Apothecary Reel		Ted Sannella 1982		Duple Minor
Baskets of Brew		Al Olsen ~1983		Triple Minor
Castner's Contra		Rich Gardner ~1983		Triple Minor
Concordia Reel		Lou Shapiro ~1983		Triple Minor
Dipping & Diving in the Brew		Al Olson ~1983		Triple Minor
Easy Living		Al Olson ~1983		Triple Minor
Little-Good Harbor		Al Olsen ~1983		Triple Minor
Ted's Tempest		Ted Sannella ~1983		Tempest
Levi Jackson Rose		Bernard Chalk (and Berea College Dancers) 1984	Colin Hume	5 Couple Circle
The Bunch of Fives		Colin Hume 1985	Wild Thyme	Custom permutation: 41532
If I Had Maggie in the Wood		Colin Hume 1985	Wild Thyme	Duple Minor
Round Robin		Colin Andrews ~1986		Circle as many as will
The Valentine's Day Massacre		Colin Hume 1986	The Rampions	Circle as many as will
The David Circle		Gary Roodman 1987		Lines of Four
Dudley's Reel		Gary Roodman 1987		Rotated Triple Minor
Little Bug Reel		Gary Roodman 1987		Duple Minor
Nineteen		Bob Lilley 1987		Duple Minor
Rational Reel		Gary Roodman 1987		Quadruple Minor Becket
Rise and Run		Gary Roodman 1987		4 Couple Longways Becket permutation: 2341
Square Line Special		Gary Roodman 1987	Anna Patton, Naomi Morse, and Peter Barnes	4 Couple Longways permutation: 2413
Witches' Cauldron		Kiston Koths 1988		Duple Minor
Cellar Door		Timothy Grant 1989		Becket
Jubilee Jig		Fried de Metz Herman 1989		Circle of trios
Swinging in the Hey		Family Week, Pinewoods 1989		Duple Minor
Textiles or Furs		Mike Richardson 1989		Duple Minor
Party Circle		Fried de Metz Herman 1990		Circle as many as will
The Hopatcong Hop		Fried de Metz Herman 1991		Duple Minor
And Now, the Fourcast		Gary Roodman 1992		4 Couple Longways Becket permutation: 4123
Church in the Highlands		Fried de Metz Herman 1992		Square
Keys in the Fridge		Gary Roodman 1992		Duple Minor
The New Wood Floor		Gary Roodman 1992		Lines of Four
Pieces of Eight		Mike Richardson ~1992		Duple Minor
Purple Heys		Mike Richardson ~1992		Duple Minor
Queen of Heart		Gary Roodman 1992		Duple Minor
Roll Down		Mike Richardson ~1992		Duple Minor
There is no Way to Peace; Peace is the Way		Erik Hoffman 1992		Becket
Top of the Deck		Gary Roodman 1992	Kate Barnes, and Mary Lea	4 Couple Longways permutation: 2341
The Vet's Revenge		Colin Hume 1992	Colin Hume	4 Couple Longways permutation: 3142
Waiting on the Corner		Gary Roodman 1992		4 Couple Longways Becket permutation: 4123
Will Ye No Come Back?		Mike Richardson ~1992		Becket
Back Road to Ayer		Lisa Greenleaf ~1993		Duple Minor
Back Road to Bolton		Lisa Greenleaf ~1993		Duple Minor
Camille's Quadrille		Walter Lenk ~1993		Square
Double Chocolate		Jim Kitch ~1993		Quadruple Minor
Double Trouble		Colin Hume 1993	Masquerade	4 Couple Longways permutation: 2341
The Green-Eyed Girl		Jim Kitch ~1993		Duple Minor
Instant Mix		Tom Cook 1993		Circle as many as will
Jack's Own Circle		Cathy Stephens ~1993		Duple Minor
Ockham's Razor		Don Lennartson ~1993		Duple Minor
October Flurry		Joe Baker ~1993		Duple Minor
Rodney's Earring		Merilee Karr ~1993		Duple Minor
Rosemary Hills Reel		Jim Kitch ~1993		Becket
Star Birth		Michael Fuerst ~1993		Duple Minor
Twiddley Diddely		Walter Lenk ~1993		Duple Minor
Two for the Road		Jim Kitch ~1993		Duple Minor
The Wampececk		Timothy Grant ~1993		Duple Minor
Wizard's Walk		Ruth Unger 1993		Duple Minor
4 for the Gospel Makers		Fried de Metz Herman 1994		Duple Minor
David's Good Man		David Smukler ~1995	Bare Necessities	Duple Minor
Kim's Game		Colin Hume 1995	Masquerade	Four Face Four
The Rumpus ~ Duple		Bob Lilley 1995		Duple Minor
Adelè's Delight		Ann Higley 1996	Masquerade	3 Couple Longways permutation: 231
Chippenham Chaser		Colin Hume 1996		4 Couple Longways permutation: 3421
Hale Bopp Circle		Fried de Metz Herman 1997		Duple Minor
The Friday Sicilian		Fried de Metz Herman 1998		Duple Minor
Monday Long 8		Fried de Metz Herman 1998		4 Couple Longways permutation: 2341
The Saturday Triad		Fried de Metz Herman 1998	Bonnie Insull & Susan McNeil	3 Couple Longways permutation: 231
A Balanced Tern		Joseph Pimentel 1999		Duple Minor
Brenda's Brainbender		Bob Lilley 1999		Duple Minor
The Mad Hatter		Bob Lilley 1999		Duple Minor
Ramsay Chase		Joseph Pimentel 1999	Goldcrest	Duple Minor
Woven Waves		Cary Ravitz 1999		Duple Minor
The Connectrix		Rick Mohr 2000		Duple Minor
Johnson City Circle		Gary Roodman 2000	Cilantrio	5 Couple Circle
Summer Circle		Fried de Metz Herman 2000		Becket
Blackbird Pie		Joseph Pimentel 2001	Goldcrest	Duple Minor
Butterfly Reel		Eric Black 2002		Duple Minor
Oh Geez!		Joseph Pimentel 2003		Duple Minor
Appin's Dance		Joseph Pimentel 2004		Duple Minor
Changeling Intuition		Joseph Pimentel 2004	Goldcrest	Duple Minor
Sasna's Swing		Joseph Pimentel 2004		Duple Minor
Whip-poor-will		Joseph Pimentel 2004		Duple Minor
Hotpoint Special		Joseph Pimentel 2005	Goldcrest	Becket CCW
Say “I Do”		Gary Roodman 2005	Anna Patton, Erica & Naomi Morse, and Peter Barnes	4 Couple Longways Becket
The Geud Contra of Ballangigh		Peter Foster 2006	Bare Necessities	Duple Minor
Joyride		Erik Weberg 2007		Duple Minor
Sunset Limited		Rick Mohr 2007		Becket CCW
Barbarella		Tom Thoreau ~2008		Becket
Food, Sex, and Beer		Carol Ormand 2008		Duple Minor
Galax		Cary Ravitz 2008		Becket
Summer Wedding Jig		Jenny Beer 2009	Odd Sundays Garage Band	Duple Minor
Banjo in a Bear Suit		Brooke Friendly/Chris Sackett 2010		Square
Bouncing Back Again		Eric Black 2010		Becket CCW
Chinese New Year		Chris Page 2010		Duple Minor
Mrs. Saxton's Magic Carpet Ride		Wendy Graham 2010		Lines of Four
Mevagissey Car Park		Gary Roodman 2011	Cilantrio (Karen Axelrod, Peter Barnes, and Mary Lea)	4 Couple Longways Becket
Anna Turns Five		Gary Roodman 2012	Cilantrio (Karen Axelrod, Peter Barnes, and Mary Lea)	5 Couple Circle
Double Mud Pig		Rick Mohr 2012		Becket
Fair Play		Jenna Simpson 2012		Duple Minor
Hopkinton Lasses		Gary Roodman 2012		Duple Minor
Mevagissey Car Park ~ Revisited		Gary Roodman 2012	Cilantrio (Karen Axelrod, Peter Barnes, and Mary Lea)	4 Couple Longways Becket
Social Symmetry		Gary Roodman 2012		4 Couple Longways Becket
Champagne		Jenna Simpson 2014	Odd Sundays Garage Band	Duple Minor
A Health to all Good Dancers		Joseph Pimentel 2014		Duple Minor
Reciprocity		Jenna Simpson 2014		Duple Minor
Golden Gate		Jacqui Grennan 2017		Duple Minor
Golden Gate (Marr)		Jacqui Grennan 2017 Frannie Marr		Duple Minor
Slide and Slam		AmWeek Choreography Wkshp 2017		Becket
Four for Four		Gary Roodman 2018		Four Face Four
Jacqui's Dolphin Yey		Seth Tepfer 2018	Bonnie Insull and Susan McNeill	Becket
Always Love Contra		Jacqui Grennan 2019		Becket
The Beekeepers' Dream		Vic Ceder 2019		Becket
Contra in a Teacup		George Williams 2019		Four Face Four
Contra Relay		George Williams 2019		Four Face Four
Crazy Nella		Vic Ceder 2019		Duple Minor
Debbie's Dilemma		Vic Ceder 2019		Becket
Double Allemande		Vic Ceder 2019		Short Waves
Double Chocolate for Renée		Joseph Pimentel 2019		Duple Minor
Double Circle		Vic Ceder 2019		Becket
Easy Schmeezy		Vic Ceder 2019		Duple 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
Mad For You		Vic Ceder 2019		Short Waves
Madly Madly		Vic Ceder 2019		Becket
Mirror Test		George Williams 2019		Four Face Four
Misunderstood Loon		Nathaniel Jack 2019 SBCDS 2019		Becket
More Madness		Vic Ceder 2019		Duple Minor
One Hundred		Vic Ceder 2019		Duple Minor
Poussette Reflection		Vic Ceder 2019		Duple Minor
Poussettronella		Charlie Abell 2019		Becket
Promenheyde		George Williams 2019 Jacqui Grennan		Four Face Four
Roll 'N Go		Vic Ceder 2019		Becket
Rolling Shadow		Vic Ceder 2019		Becket
Sparkle		Vic Ceder 2019		Duple Minor
Spinner's Delight		Vic Ceder 2019		Becket
Take the Gent		Vic Ceder 2019		Becket
Take the Lady		Vic Ceder 2019		Becket
There's your Shadow		Vic Ceder 2019		Duple Minor
Turns Galore		Vic Ceder 2019		Becket
Two Hands Here, Two Hands There		Vic Ceder 2019		Becket
What the Hey?		Vic Ceder 2019		Becket
Whirl and Chase		Vic Ceder 2019		Becket
Halcyon Days		Joseph Pimentel 2020	Goldcrest	Duple Minor
Sunflowers		Orly Krasner 2022		Duple Minor

40 Progressive

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
La Belle Frêne		Hezekiah Cantelo 1785 George Williams 2022		Triple Minor
Old Dan Tucker ~ Link		Charles Link 1893 George Williams 2022		Custom
The Clockmender's Jig		Colin Andrews ~1986		6 Couple Rectangle permutation: 612345
Ten Year Tested		Colin Hume 1989	The Rampions	5 Couple Longways permutation: 54213
Brace Yourself		Scott Higgs 2016		Duple Minor

48 Progressive

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
The Original Tampete ~ Burnton		Burnton 1851 George Williams 2024		Four Face Four
Arkansas Traveller		Elias Howe 1858 George Williams 2022	Colin Hume	Triple Minor
The Corkscrew Jig		Colin Andrews ~1986		Triple Minor
Virginia Roundabout		Colin Andrews ~1986		Circle as many as will
The New Man		Colin Hume 1987	The Rampions	3 Couple Longways
40 Years of Penguin Pam		Seth Tepfer ~2019		Becket

64 Progressive

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
The Installation		Thompson 1772 Tom Cook 1979 Playford Ball	Bare Necessities	3 Couple Longways permutation: 231
The American Husband		Pat Shaw 1977	Colin Hume	Triple Minor
Her Man		Pat Shaw 1977	Colin Hume	Triple Minor

72 Non-Progressive

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Kettle Drum		John Playford 1651 Scott Pfitzinger ~2019	MGM and Reunion	Square

84 Progressive

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Buffalo Gals		Tommy Dandurand 1927		Square

96 Progressive

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Swing Two Ladies		Ralph Page 1949		Square

106 Progressive

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Swing Like Thunder		Richard Kraus 1956		Square

112 Progressive

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Four Ladies to the Center ~ Ford		Benjamin B Lovett 1925		Square
Right and Left		Lloyd Shaw 1939		Square

128 Progressive

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
The Albert Memorial Square		Pat Shaw ~1971		Square

136 Progressive

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Le Carillon de Dunkerque		Elias Howe 1862		Square

144 Progressive

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Four Gents Lead Out		Lloyd Shaw 1939		Square

145 Progressive

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Dip and Dive		Richard Kraus 1956		Square

160 Non-Progressive

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
The Boys of Wexford		Marjorie Heffer & William Porter 1932		3 Couple Circle

160 Progressive

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Texas Star		Lloyd Shaw 1939		Square

176 Progressive

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Old Arkansaw		Lloyd Shaw 1939		Square

182 Progressive

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Independence Day		Darren Gallina (date unknown)		Square

188 Progressive

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Grapevine Twist - Coffman		Charlotte Coffman ~1930 Lloyd Shaw 1939		Square

192 Progressive

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Wait for the Wagon		Ralph Page 1949		Square
The Twist of Fate		Colin Hume 1980	Kafoozalum	Square

208 Progressive

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Divide the Ring and Cut Away Four		Lloyd Shaw 1939		Square

224 Progressive

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
John's Favorite		Pinewoods class & John Krumm 1989		Square

228 Progressive

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
The Crooked Stovepipe #1		Ralph Page 1949		Square
Three Hand Star		Ralph Page 1949		Square

240 Progressive

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Peter's Maze		Colin Hume 1985	Wild Thyme	Square

256 Progressive

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Lady Round the Lady - Ford		Benjamin B Lovett 1925	Colin Hume	Square
Right Hand Star ~ Shaw		Lloyd Shaw 1939		Square
Going at Sixty		Colin Hume 2007	Colin Hume	Custom

268 Progressive

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Grapevine Twist ~ Standard		Lloyd Shaw 1939		Square

272 Progressive

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Adam and Eve		Lloyd Shaw 1939		Square
The Lady Round the Lady ~ Shaw		Lloyd Shaw 1939	Colin Hume	Square
The Lady Walks Around		Lloyd Shaw 1939		Square
Star by the Right		Lloyd Shaw 1939		Square

276 Progressive

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
The Girl I Left Behind Me #1		Duke Miller 1949 Ralph Page 1949		Square

284 Progressive

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Him and Her ~ Shaw		Lloyd Shaw 1939		Square

296 Progressive

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
The Ocean Wave ~ Shaw		Lloyd Shaw 1939		Square

320 Progressive

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
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
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

328 Progressive

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Forward up six		Lloyd Shaw 1939		Square

336 Progressive

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Lady Round Lady ~ Dunlavy		Tressie Dunlavy 1932	Colin Hume	Square

344 Progressive

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Birdie in a Cage		Lloyd Shaw 1939		Square

Number of dances	Number of versions	Number with music
332	332	53

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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