Table of Contents

A

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Anna Turns Five		Gary Roodman 2012	Cilantrio (Karen Axelrod, Peter Barnes, and Mary Lea)	5 Couple Circle

B

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
The Birthday Waltz		Colin Hume 1996	Colin Hume	Duple Minor

D

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Dance of a Lifetime		Joseph Pimentel 2012	Goldcrest	Circle as many as will
A Double Duet		Gary Roodman 1999	MGM and Reunion	Duple Minor
The Duke of Kent's Waltz ~ Simons		W.M. Cahusac 1801 A. Simons 1970 Playford Ball	Bare Necessities	Duple Minor

E

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Emma's Waltz		Colin Hume 2009	Susan McNeill, Lawrence Wallin and Robert Winokur	4 Couple Longways permutation: 3142

F

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Farewell Marian		Gwyn Williams 1967	Bare Necessities	Circle as many as will
Felicity		Colin Hume ~2002	Bare Necessities	4 Couple Longways permutation: 2413

G

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
The Gypsy Round		Eric Leber 1979	Bare Necessities	Duple Minor

H

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Honeysuckle Cottage Honeysuckle Cottage Gary Roodman 2003 Jessica Murrow, Karen Axelrod, Mary Lea, and Naomi Morse Duple Minor Honeysuckle Cottage ~ Mod Gary Roodman 2003 Jessica Murrow, Karen Axelrod, Mary Lea, and Naomi Morse Duple Minor

L

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
Little Venice		Colin Hume 1992	Bare Necessities	3 Couple Longways

M

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Maggie's Waltz Square		Colin Hume 2002	Frank Hoppe, Robert Winokur, and Susan McNeil	Square

R

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Ramsgate Assembly		Thomas Budd 1795 A. Simons 1972 Playford Ball	Bare Necessities	3 Couple Longways permutation: 231

T

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Trip to Castle Howard ~ Cook		Thompson 1775 Tom Cook 1980	Colin Hume	3 Couple Longways permutation: 312
A Trip to Provence		Susan Kevra 2015	Dave Bartley, Ruthie Dornfeld and Terry Wergeland	Duple Minor

W

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Whirled Peas		Jenna Simpson 2018	Bare Necessities	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.

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.

In Northern Junket, June, 1970, page 29, there is a reference to "box the gnat". Although published in 1970, there is a comment saying that dance comes from 1968.

CALLERLAB published the first standardized list of calls in 1975, and box the gnat was on that list.

Recently I have seen the term "Twirl to Swap" used to mean a non-gendered version of "Box the Gnat".

See Also

• Swat the Flea

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