Search for the following phrase within a dance name

Search for dances devised (or at least published) between the two years

Search for all dances devised or interpreted by

Search for all dances within a certain publication

Search for all dances of a given style

Search for all dances of a given level of difficulty
Warning: the level of difficulty is subjective, you may not agree, worse, most dances have yet to be evaluated.









Search for all dances with a certain starting formation
Search for all dances with the following figures:

Search for the following phrase within a dance's notes

Up a double, Siding, Arming
Country Dances, Ancient and Modern

Dances in The Dancing Master, Vol. the Second (John Young, 1710, London)

An online copy of the original may be found here.

May-2026

Dance TitleTypeDeviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date,
Interpreter
Music
Performers
Formation
Love's Triumph ~ HiggsJohn Young 1710
Scott Higgs 2019
Colin Hume3 Couple Longways permutation: 231

Mar-2026

Dance TitleTypeDeviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date,
Interpreter
Music
Performers
Formation
Hambleton's Round OJohn Young 1710
Bernard Bentley 1962 Playford Ball
Dave Bartley, Ruthie Dornfeld and Terry WergelandTriple Minor

Nov-2025

Dance TitleTypeDeviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date,
Interpreter
Music
Performers
Formation
Bar-a-BarJohn Young 1710
Fried de Metz Herman 1986 Playford Assembly
Bare NecessitiesDuple Minor
Barr a BarrJohn Young 1710
Fried de Metz Herman 1986 Playford Assembly
Bare NecessitiesDuple Minor

Oct-2025

Dance TitleTypeDeviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date,
Interpreter
Music
Performers
Formation
Love's Triumph ~ FriedJohn Young 1710
Fried de Metz Herman ~1999
Colin HumeTriple Minor
Love's Triumph ~ CallensJohn Young 1710
Philippe Callens 2004
Colin Hume3 Couple Longways permutation: 231
Love's Triumph ~ TripleJohn Young 1710
Colin Hume 2007
Colin HumeTriple Minor

Sep-2025

Dance TitleTypeDeviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date,
Interpreter
Music
Performers
Formation
Love's Triumph ~ BentleyJohn Young 1710
Bernard Bentley 1962 Playford Ball
Colin Hume3 Couple Longways permutation: 231
Love's Triumph ~ HumeJohn Young 1710
Colin Hume 2007
Colin Hume3 Couple Longways permutation: 231
Number
of dances
Number
of versions
Number
with music
888

This list contains all dances in the book which I have animated (and which first appeared in this edition of the Dancing Master) for a complete list of dances in the book see here.

This website is copyright © 2021-2026 by George W. Williams V
Creative Commons License My work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Most of the dances have more restrictive licensing, see my notes on copyright, the individual dance pages should mention when some rights are waived.