Table of Contents
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| Dance Title | Type | Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter | Music Performers | Formation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lambs on Green Hill |  | Dan Seppeler 2011
| Bonnie Insull, Susan McNeil, and Robert Winokur | Duple Minor |
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| Dance Title | Type | Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter | Music Performers | Formation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sweet Cream | | Jenna Simpson 2011
|  | Duple Minor |
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| Dance Title | Type | Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter | Music Performers | Formation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Unknown Buccaneer | | Sharon Green 2009
| | Duple Minor |
| Number of dances | Number of versions | Number with music |
|---|---|---|
| 3 | 3 | 1 |
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.
Box The Gnat
An online definition may be found here.
Bars: 2.
This figure involves a facing couple, they join right hands and raise them, then they trade places. The woman turning left 180° as she passes under the raised hands, the man turning right 180° as he walks around her. The right hands remain joined afterward.
History
Box the Gnat is a figure in Cecil Sharp's Running Set from 1918. However that box the gnat has very little to do with the modern figure, it appears more like a variation on strip the willow
How the modern call evolved after 1918 I do not know. Lloyd Shaw does not mention it in his Cowboy Dances from 1939.
CALLERLAB published the first standardized list of calls in 1975, and box the gnat was on that list.
See Also
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