Table of Contents

A

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
An Arm & a Leg		Fried de Metz Herman 1991		Duple Minor

G

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
The Gallopping Nagg		John & William Neal 1726 Rich Jackson & George Fogg 1990		Duple Minor

H

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Her Killing Eyes Her Killing Eyes ~ Bolton Nathaniel Kynaston 1716 Charles Bolton 1989 Colin Hume Duple Minor Her Killing Eyes ~ Hume Nathaniel Kynaston 1716 Colin Hume 2021 Colin Hume Duple Minor

J

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Jonathan and Lynn's Waltz		Sharon Green 2020	Odd Sundays Garage Band	Duple Minor

M

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
My Lord Byron's Maggot My Lord Byron's Maggot ~ Pat Shaw Henry Playford 1701 Pat Shaw ~1965 Duple Minor My Lord Byron's Maggot ~ Regency Dances Henry Playford 1701 Regency Dances Duple Minor My Lord Byron's Maggot ~ Sharp Henry Playford 1701 Cecil Sharp 1922 Duple Minor

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.

Hand Gesture

Also known as: Point, Beckon.

Bars: 2.

Occasionally a dance will call for a hand gesture. Pointing, beckoning, waving, saluting (in the modern sense).

History

Walsh has dancers pointing at each other in Her Killing Eyes, 1716.

Thomas Bray uses "beckon" in The Woman's the Man, 1699.

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