Table of Contents

• Difficulty Level: Not Specified
• Intermediate
• Hard

Difficulty Level: Not Specified

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Ben the Sailor		George McFarren 1808 Regency Dances		Triple Minor
Catalina Express		Doris Fisher ~2016		Square
The Four Branches		Bill Hartung ~2016		4 Couple Longways permutation: 2341
Levi Jackson Rag		Pat Shaw 1974		Custom
Le Palindrome		Anonymous ~2022		Circle as many as will
Santa Monica Rag		Los Angeles Branch Demonstraion Team ~2016		4 Couple Longways permutation: 2413
Winter Solstice		Wendy Crouch 1988	Bare Necessities	Custom permutation: 53412

Intermediate

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
The Bees of Maggieknockater		John Drewry 1977	Colin Hume	4 Couple Longways permutation: 2341
Chuck's Strathspey		Frank Wu 2013		Triple Minor

Hard

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Farewell to Auchterarder		Bill Hamilton 1967		Square
Ian Powrie's Farewell to Auchterarder		Bill Hamilton 1967		Square
The Library of Birmingham		Kenneth J Reid 2015		4 Couple Longways permutation: 3142
Tuolumne Tournée		Shirley Saturensky 1994		4 Couple Longways permutation: 2413

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.

Promenade

Bars: however long is needed.

Promenading consists of dancing beside your partner, holding hands. There are various hand positions. The most common one has both hands in front, right hand in partner's right, left in partner's left.

History

Sharp uses a promenade in his interpretation of Adson's Saraband, Playford, 1651. But I'm not sure he is right to do so. Playford says:

First cu. lead down between the rest, come with a compass to your places, the rest following

Which sounds rather different to me.

The concept of "promenading" came over from France with Cotillions.

Thomas Hurst, in his The Cotillons Made PLAIN and EASY, 1769, (page 9), defines promenading:

TWELFTH CHANGE, The Promenade, or Walk.

Every Gentleman takes his Partner by the Left-Hand; and putting his Right-Hand round her Waist; in this Manner they follow each other all round in a great Ring, and finish in their proper Places.

Note, this is not the modern skaters' hold promenade

I think Wilson may be the first to suggest joining hands in front, in his The Quadrille and Cotillion Panorama:

6.—PROMENADE, THE GREAT

All the four couples cross hands with their partners, and move round in a circle to places.

See Also

• Three Couple Promenade Round

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