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B

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
The Buttercross		Colin Hume 1996	Colin Hume	6 Couple Longways

C

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Christine's Conundrum		Colin Hume 2001	Colin Hume	Facing Couples Becket

G

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Grand Petronelle Grand Petronelle ~ Quadrille J. P. Boulogne 1827 George Williams 2026 Colin Hume Square

K

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Koepoort Galliard		Pat Shaw 1971	Bare Necessities	Square

L

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Lady Banbury's Hornpipe Lady Banbury's Hornpipe ~ Hume/Sharp John Playford 1657 Colin Hume 2021 Colin Hume Duple Minor Lady Banbury's Hornpipe ~ Sharp John Playford 1657 Cecil Sharp 1916 Colin Hume Duple Minor

M

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Le Moulinet Le Moulinet Thomas Hurst 1769 Colin Hume 2025 Colin Hume Square Le Moulinet Thomas Hurst 1769 George Williams 2024 Colin Hume Square

P

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Grand Petronelle Grand Petronelle ~ Quadrille J. P. Boulogne 1827 George Williams 2026 Colin Hume Square Petronelle ~ Quadrille J. P. Boulogne 1827 George Williams 2026 Colin Hume Square
The Pride of Newcastle		Pat Shaw 1963	Bare Necessities	3 Couple Circle

W

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
The Windmill The Windmill Thomas Hurst 1769 Colin Hume 2025 Colin Hume Square
The Windmill		Thomas Hurst 1769 George Williams 2024	Colin Hume	Square

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.

Star Promenade

Also known as: Double Hands Across, Wagon Wheel.

Bars: 4.

In this figure there is a group of dancers in the center doing a hands across, or hand turn (if there are only two dancers in the middle), each holding their partner in their other hand, and all turning.

History

Lady Banbury's Hornpipe, Playford, 1657 appears to have a star promenade for two couples.

Then Thomas Hurst's Le Moulinet, a Cotillion from 1769: The four Ladies right hands across in the middle once round Ladies still keeping the right hands across each takes her partner with her left hand and turn once more round in a large cross.

In J.P. Boulogne's Petronelle ~ Quadrille, 1827:

		Bars
1.	The first Gentleman and third Lady perform the figure of a diamond, to their right, in the centre, setting at the four corners	16
2.	Double hands across and back again,	8

See Also

• Hands Across

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