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Jun-2026

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Grunion Run ~ 4 Couple		George Williams 2026		4 Couple Longways
Grunion Run ~ Triple/Triple		George Williams 2026		Triple Minor

Feb-2026

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Cannock Chase		Charles Bolton 1991	Dave Bartley, Ruthie Dornfeld and Terry Wergeland	3 Couple Longways permutation: 312

Feb-2025

Dance Title	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
The Artful Dodsons	Renée Camus 2022	Dave Bartley, Ruthie Dornfeld and Terry Wergeland	3 Couple Longways permutation: 231
As You Were	Renée Camus 2020	Colin Hume	3 Couple Longways
Through the Looking Glass - Camus	Renée Camus 2022	Dave Bartley, Ruthie Dornfeld and Terry Wergeland	3 Couple Longways permutation: 231

Number of dances	Number of versions	Number with music
5	5	3

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.

Morris Hey

Bars: 8.

A Morris Hey is a variant of a Mirror Hey except that most mirror heys have the top couple dancing in between the middle couple to start while the middle couple moves out, in a morris hey the top couple cast out, while the middle couple dances up and in.

Scottish Country Dancing uses the figure, but doesn't seem to have a term for it, just calling it a mirror reel.

Variants

Mirror heys can be done with any number of couples. A three couple hey is the most common, but there are also dances with 4 couple mirror heys. I haven't seen any for 5 or more dancers, but there could be.

History

Henry Playford probably describes half a morris hey in Twelfe Eve, in 1702. There are a number of dances after that where John Young or Walsh have the 1s doing a Hey with the 2s+3s on the sides, followed by the 1s casting down. A modern interpreter who looks at this will call for a morris hey (because it will flow nicely into the cast), but it's not clear that's what was originally intended. An example of this is Kynaston's Tomson's Whim from 1718.

The first use of the term that I can find is from Porter, Heffer & Heffer's interpretation of A Trip to Highgate (a dance written by Thompson in 1777 and the original does not include any heys at all).