Table of Contents

A

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Ah, Leave Me not to Pine		Colin Hume 2024	Colin Hume	3 Couple Longways permutation: 312
As You Were		Renée Camus 2020	Colin Hume	3 Couple Longways

B

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Bellamira ~ Bolton		Henry Playford 1689 Charles Bolton 1985	Bare Necessities	Duple Minor

M

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
May Daydream		Renée Camus 2026	Choreograffiti Audrey Jaber, Shira Kammen, and Chip Prince	Circle as many as will
Mr. Hamilton's Inauguration		Joseph Pimentel 2006	Goldcrest	Duple Minor

W

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
White Wheat		Hazel Moir 2005	Bare Necessities	3 Couple Longways permutation: 231

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.

Hole In The Wall Cross

Bars: 2 or 4.

The Hole in the Wall cross is a variant of a simple cross, in it the people crossing approach one another and just as they would bump they sidle around each other in a semicircle and then back away into the other person’s place.

History

When I started dancing I was told that a "hole in the wall cross" came from the dance "Hole in the Wall". But it doesn't.

If you look at Playford's description of the dance he says simply:

The 1. Man cross over with the 2. Wo. and the 1. Wo. with the 2. Man, so all four Hands half round, and so cast off into the 2. Place, the rest do the like.

The dance "Hole in the Wall", as published by Playford, contains two perfectly ordinary corner changes as part of a standard sequence.

Then I assumed that Douglas and Helen Kennedy put it in when they interpreted the dance in 1929. But, again, they didn't. They say:

B	1-2	First man changes places with second woman.
	3-4	First woman changes places with second man.

As far as I can tell Pat Shaw is the first to have used the term "hole in the wall cross" in his interpretations and dances. In 1960 his interpretations of both The Lover's Luck and Whimbleton House call for a "hole in the wall cross" (at least as transcribed in Another Look at Playford). While his own dance Miss Avril's Delight from 1971 may be the first modern dance to use the figure.

I assume he used it when he taught the dance "Hole in the Wall", but I have no record of that.

The next person to use it seems to have been Tom Cook with his dance Belgia Retriev'd in 1979.

See Also

• Cross

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