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
The Black Nag ~ Barraclough		John Playford 1657 Michael Barraclough ~2017	Colin Hume	3 Couple Longways
The Black Nagg ~ Barraclough		John Playford 1657 Michael Barraclough ~2017	Colin Hume	3 Couple Longways
Bluebonnets - Pimentel		Joseph Pimentel 2005	Goldcrest	Duple Minor

D

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Dick's Maggot Dick's Maggot ~ Hume Henry Playford 1702 Colin Hume 1995 Colin Hume Duple Minor Dick's Maggot ~ Pat Shaw John Young 1710 Pat Shaw 1972 Colin Hume Duple Minor
Double the Cape		John Young 1710 Pat Shaw 1972	Colin Hume	Duple Minor

F

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
From Aberdeen ~ Cook		Henry Playford 1695 Tom Cook 1991	Bare Necessities	3 Couple Longways permutation: 312

H

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Humours of the Age ~ Hume		Nathaniel Kynaston 1710 Colin Hume 2018	Colin Hume	3 Couple Longways permutation: 231

J

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Janet Murphy's Delight		Colin Hume 1990	The Rampions	3 Couple Longways permutation: 231

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
The Merry Milkmaids in Green The Merry Milkmaids in Green ~ Pat Shaw John Young 1721 Pat Shaw 1972 At Home Bare Necessities Triple Minor The Merry Milkmaids in Green ~ Pat Shaw/3 Couple John Young 1721 Pat Shaw 1972 At Home Bare Necessities 3 Couple Longways permutation: 231
The Mistress of the Greenery		Colin Hume 2022	Colin Hume	3 Couple Longways permutation: 231
Moonfleet Moonfleet ~ 3 Couple Colin Hume 1995 Masquerade 3 Couple Longways permutation: 231 Moonfleet ~ Triple Colin Hume 1995 Masquerade Triple Minor
Mr. Hamilton's Inauguration		Joseph Pimentel 2006	Goldcrest	Duple Minor
Mrs. Felton's Maggot		Colin Hume 2006	Dampier's Round	Duple Minor

N

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
The New Chairman		Philippe Callens 1992	Colin Hume	Duple Minor
Newcastle ~ Barraclough		John Playford 1651 Michael Barraclough 2001	Colin Hume	Square
Newcastle United		John Playford 1651 Michael Barraclough 2001	Colin Hume	Square

T

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
To the Presence		Sharon Green 2021	Odd Sundays Garage Band	Duple Minor
Trip to Texas		Joseph Pimentel 2005	Goldcrest	Duple Minor

W

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Whimbleton House ~ Hume		Henry Playford 1701 Colin Hume 2011	Colin Hume	Duple Minor
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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