Dances

This was our programme for Wednesday 26th March 2025 @ 8:00pm – Clare calling to the music of Change of Key

Dances for Little Longborough 26th March 2025

Passages                                longways              Ye Banks and Braes

A Spring in your Step         3 couples              Trip to Brighton set

Mendocino Redwood           longways              Woodlands Walk

Lady of Lowestoft                 longways              Baby in the bath set

Corelli’s Maggot                    longways     

Levi Jackson                          5 couples

The Alderman’s Hat             3 couples

Grimstock                               3 couples

Well Donne                             longways

Beaumont Rag                       circle

 

Dances for Little Longborough 9th April 2025

Dover Pier                               longways

Yellow Crocus                       longways              Goose in the Grass set

My Lady Winwood’s Maggot         3 couples

Blackbird Pie                          longways              Castlewall set

The Doldrum                          4 couples

A Gentle Soul                         longways              Wild Boy

Spring Fever                          3 couples   John’s Jig set (Phrygian jig)

School House Reel               4 couples             Back in the Kitchen  

Holborn March                       longways

                  In Reserve:

The Rotunda                          circle                     Jungle Book set

Professor Martin’s Maggot 3 couples   Paddy Carey’s Morgan Rattler

Fourpence Halfpenny farthing     longways

               As well as our resident callers Clare and June we like to ask callers from neighbouring clubs to call for us.  We welcomed Mike Barraclough back just before Easter 2022!  Eleanor Mehew called for us in May and Norman Bearon called in June and will join us in January 2023  Bernie Culkin enjoys calling for us.

Playford and Playford style dances are very popular in our club. Alongside those to be found in the Barnes Collection I, 2 and 3 are the dances from Maggot Pie and Fallibroome. Hugh Stewart’s The Country Dance Book proves very useful and typical of the contra and contemporary material the club enjoys. Other dances are from the “Ring O’ Bells” series. I use tunes from the Portland Collections amongst other books, particularly for contra dances.