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A

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Autumn in Amherst		Philippe Callens 2003	Bare Necessities	Duple Minor

B

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
The Beaus of the Park		Johnson ~1733 Bernard Bentley 1971	Colin Hume	3 Couple Longways permutation: 231

C

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Choreograffiti		Renée Camus 2026	Choreograffiti Audrey Jaber, Shira Kammen, Chip Prince, Christopher Jacoby, and Jim Oakden	Duple Minor
Crosbey Square Crosbey Square ~ Hume Henry Playford 1701 Colin Hume 2025 Colin Hume Duple Minor Crosbey Square ~ Sharp Henry Playford 1701 Cecil Sharp 1922 Colin Hume Duple Minor

F

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Freers' Fortification		Hilary Herbert 2014	Dave Bartley, Ruthie Dornfeld and Terry Wergeland	4 Couple Longways permutation: 3142

H

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
A Health to all Honest Men ~ Herman		Walsh 1718 Fried de Metz Herman ~1989	Colin Hume	Duple Minor

J

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
John the Mad Man ~ Bentley		John Young 1726 Bernard Bentley 1965	Colin Hume	Duple Minor

L

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Longevity		Orly Krasner 2000	Bare Necessities	Duple Minor

M

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Marli Water Works		Matthew Welch 1767 Pat Shaw 1963	Colin Hume	3 Couple Longways permutation: 231

P

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
The Play's the Thing		Brooke Friendly/Chris Sackett 2007	Bare Necessities	Duple Minor
The Prince of Westborough		Paula Kelley 2006	Bare Necessities	Duple Minor

S

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Safe Haven		Orly Krasner 2002	Bare Necessities	Duple Minor

T

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Terpsícourante ~ Alternate		Gary Roodman 2011	MGM and Reunion	4 Couple Longways

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.

Draw Poussette

Bars: 8 for a full, 4 for a half.

The draw poussette is similar to a normal poussette except that the couple turns through 180° so that the person who was pushing continues to push the entire time. This means that the person who was on the men’s line ends on the women’s line and vice versa.

History

Colin Hume suggests (and I agree with him) that this is a modern misunderstanding.

Cecil Sharp, in his interpretation of Jog On, My Honey describes the motions of a draw poussette (but doesn't not name it), but Playford's original seems to me to describe a normal poussette.

In 1922, Sharp's interpretation of Crosbey-Square again describes a draw poussette, but doesn't name it.

The next use of a draw poussette occurs in 1962 in Pat Shaw's interpretation of Thomas Wilson's Captain MacIntosh (on page 113), and Shaw appears to be the first to name the figure. Wilson defines his figures in The Complete System of English Country Dancing, and calls his poussette a "Half pousette or draw" so that may explain where Shaw got the name. Wilson's figure and instructions are not the clearest, but as his "Whole Pousette" is progressive it can't leave couples improper, so it can't be what we now call a draw poussette.

See Also

• Poussette

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