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| Dance Title | Type | Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter | Music Performers | Formation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Beggar Boy |  | John Playford 1651 Cecil Sharp 1911 Playford Ball | Bare Necessities | 3 Couple Longways |
C
| Dance Title | Type | Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter | Music Performers | Formation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chestnut | | John Playford 1651 Cecil Sharp 1911 | A Playford Ball Bare Necessities | 3 Couple Longways |
| The Chocolate Equation | | Brooke Friendly/Chris Sackett 2009 | Frank Hoppe | 4 Couple Longways permutation: 2341 |
D
| Dance Title | Type | Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter | Music Performers | Formation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dove's Figary | | John Playford 1651 Cecil Sharp 1911 | A Playford Ball Bare Necessities | 3 Couple Longways |
F
| Dance Title | Type | Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter | Music Performers | Formation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Father's Day | | Gary Roodman 2000 | Cilantrio | 4 Couple Longways permutation: 3142 |
M
| Dance Title | Type | Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter | Music Performers | Formation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maiden Lane | | John Playford 1651 Cecil Sharp (mod) 1912 Playford Assembly | Colin Hume | 3 Couple Longways permutation: 231 |
| Meander | | Mary Devlin 2008 | Susan McNeil, Robert Winokur and Lawrence Wallin | 4 Couple Longways permutation: 2413 |
| Mr. Chopin's Waltz | | Gary Roodman 2009 | Bare Necessities | Duple Minor |
O
| Dance Title | Type | Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter | Music Performers | Formation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Old World and the New | | Colin Hume 1992 | Colin Hume | Square |
P
| Dance Title | Type | Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter | Music Performers | Formation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Phoenix | | John Playford 1670 Cecil Sharp 1912 Playford Ball | Colin Hume | 4 Couple Longways |
R
| Dance Title | Type | Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter | Music Performers | Formation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ringing the Changes | | Colin Hume 1992 | Bare Necessities | Square |
| Number of dances | Number of versions | Number with music |
|---|---|---|
| 10 | 10 | 10 |
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.
Parallel Reels
Also known as: Parallel Heys.
Bars: 8 bars for a full straight reel with 3 or 4 dancers.
Parallel reels are usually done with three people on each side of the set. The men's line and the women's line will do the same moves in parallel, the reels start by having the top two couples pass each other by the right (sometimes left) shoulders.
History
In Cheerily and Merrily, 1651, Playford may be calling for parallel heys, or he might mean mirror heys:
Men the S. Hey, while the we. do as much
In Adson's Saraband (from the same edition) he is very careful about spelling out exactly how the mirror hey is done. But here he is much briefer. My guess (and Cecil Sharp's) is that both men and women should do a right shoulder (single) right shoulder hey on the sides, but Charles Bolton thought differently (and uses mirror heys).
The (R)SCDS first uses parallel reels in Book 5 (1929) in Dunbarton Drums. However the term "parallel reels" isn't used until Book 19 (1957) for the dance Rakish Highlandman.
See Also
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