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A

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
The American Husband		Pat Shaw 1977	Colin Hume	Triple Minor
The Amorous Goddess		Ellen Taylor 1977	Bare Necessities	3 Couple Longways permutation: 231

B

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
The Bees of Maggieknockater		John Drewry 1977	Colin Hume	4 Couple Longways permutation: 2341
The Buttercross		Colin Hume 1996	Colin Hume	6 Couple Longways

C

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Circassian Circle ~ Burchenal		G.M.S. Chivers 1822 Elizabeth Burchenal 1918	Colin Hume	Duple Minor
Circassian Circle - CDM		Maud Karpeles 1928 Colin Hume 2024	Colin Hume	Circle as many as will

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
Delia		Ellen Taylor 1977	Bare Necessities	3 Couple Longways permutation: 231

F

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Lady Round the Lady - Ford Lady Round the Lady - Ford Benjamin B Lovett 1925 Colin Hume Square Lady Round the Lady - Hume Ralph Page 1956 Colin Hume 2022 Colin Hume Square Lady Round the Lady - Page Ralph Page 1956 Colin Hume 2022 Colin Hume Square

G

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Going at Sixty		Colin Hume 2007	Colin Hume	Custom
The Graces		Thompson 1778 Colin Hume ~2025	Colin Hume	Triple Minor
Grand Petronelle Grand Petronelle ~ Quadrille J. P. Boulogne 1827 George Williams 2026 Colin Hume Square

H

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Her Man		Pat Shaw 1977	Colin Hume	Triple Minor
The Hobby Horse		Colin Hume & Peter Jenkins 1980	Kafoozalum	Square

J

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Johnson City Circle		Gary Roodman 2000	Cilantrio	5 Couple Circle

L

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Lady Round Lady Lady Round Lady ~ Dunlavy Tressie Dunlavy 1932 Colin Hume Square The Lady Round the Lady ~ Shaw Lloyd Shaw 1939 Colin Hume Square
Lady Round the Lady - Ford Lady Round the Lady - Ford Benjamin B Lovett 1925 Colin Hume Square Lady Round the Lady - Hume Ralph Page 1956 Colin Hume 2022 Colin Hume Square Lady Round the Lady - Page Ralph Page 1956 Colin Hume 2022 Colin Hume Square

M

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Mevagissey Car Park Mevagissey Car Park Gary Roodman 2011 Cilantrio (Karen Axelrod, Peter Barnes, and Mary Lea) 4 Couple Longways Becket Mevagissey Car Park ~ Revisited Gary Roodman 2012 Cilantrio (Karen Axelrod, Peter Barnes, and Mary Lea) 4 Couple Longways Becket
Morpeth Rant Morpeth Rant Thomas Wilson 1816 Pat Shaw ~1965 Colin Hume Triple Minor Morpeth Rant ~ 3 Couple Thomas Wilson 1816 Pat Shaw ~1965 Colin Hume 3 Couple Longways permutation: 231
Le Moulinet Le Moulinet Thomas Hurst 1769 Colin Hume 2025 Colin Hume Square Le Moulinet Thomas Hurst 1769 George Williams 2024 Colin Hume Square

N

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
New Hampshire Nocturne		Gary Roodman 2012	Cilantrio (Karen Axelrod, Peter Barnes, and Mary Lea)	4 Couple Longways permutation: 3142
The New Man		Colin Hume 1987	The Rampions	3 Couple Longways

P

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Peter's Maze		Colin Hume 1985	Wild Thyme	Square
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 Pleasures of the Town The Pleasures of the Town ~ Apted Thompson 1777 W. S. Porter, M. Heffer, A. Heffer 1931 Colin Hume 3 Couple Longways permutation: 231 The Pleasures of the Town ~ Hume Thompson 1777 Colin Hume 2025 Colin Hume 3 Couple Longways permutation: 231

S

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
A School for Scandal A School for Scandal ~ Apted Thompson 1778 W. S. Porter, M. Heffer, A. Heffer 1931 Colin Hume Triple Minor A School for Scandal ~ Hume Thompson 1778 Colin Hume ~2025 Colin Hume Triple Minor
Sicilian Circle ~ Burchenal		G.M.S. Chivers 1822 Elizabeth Burchenal 1918	Colin Hume	Duple Minor

T

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Top of the Deck		Gary Roodman 1992	Kate Barnes, and Mary Lea	4 Couple Longways permutation: 2341

V

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
The Vet's Revenge		Colin Hume 1992	Colin Hume	4 Couple Longways permutation: 3142

W

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Walkaway		Pat Skelton 1980	Kafoozalum	Duple Minor
The Windmill The Windmill Thomas Hurst 1769 Colin Hume 2025 Colin Hume Square
The Windmill		Thomas Hurst 1769 George Williams 2024	Colin Hume	Square
Winter Solstice		Wendy Crouch 1988	Bare Necessities	Custom permutation: 53412

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.

Promenade

Bars: however long is needed.

Promenading consists of dancing beside your partner, holding hands. There are various hand positions. The most common one has both hands in front, right hand in partner's right, left in partner's left.

History

Sharp uses a promenade in his interpretation of Adson's Saraband, Playford, 1651. But I'm not sure he is right to do so. Playford says:

First cu. lead down between the rest, come with a compass to your places, the rest following

Which sounds rather different to me.

The concept of "promenading" came over from France with Cotillions.

Thomas Hurst, in his The Cotillons Made PLAIN and EASY, 1769, (page 9), defines promenading:

TWELFTH CHANGE, The Promenade, or Walk.

Every Gentleman takes his Partner by the Left-Hand; and putting his Right-Hand round her Waist; in this Manner they follow each other all round in a great Ring, and finish in their proper Places.

Note, this is not the modern skaters' hold promenade

I think Wilson may be the first to suggest joining hands in front, in his The Quadrille and Cotillion Panorama:

6.—PROMENADE, THE GREAT

All the four couples cross hands with their partners, and move round in a circle to places.

See Also

• Three Couple Promenade Round

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