Dance

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Some of the traditional dances are no longer danced - or not very frequently. Here is a list of all our dances with the tunes most commonly used.

We always dance around dusk. Dances are mostly single-stepped and the dancers carry fire-torches. The performances come in two flavours: Shows (or performances), where we set the ground out in advance: and Raids, where we just turn up unannounced - usually at some morris side's performance - bringing all our equipment with us.

Dance One
A circular dance for six.
Music - a Catalan tune first heard in Manresa (Bages) in 1993
Mrs Widgery's Lodger
(well, that's our name for it!
Apologies to Terry Pratchett)

Cubs Dance
Dance for three cubs.
Music: Drums - Alec Brady

The Jig
Dance for two - or for one, if Balsam's knee is playing up!
Music: Reese/Thomson
Up the Walls of the World

River Ducks

Dance for an odd number (usually 5 to 15).
Music: Trish Devitt
Ducks

Jump
Circular dance for six.
Music: John Kirkpatrick
Jump at the Sun

Dance Two
Two lines of three, longways set formation.
Music: Traditional English
The Skinned Sheep

Lights
Combat dance for four.
Music: Paddy Maloney
The Rights of Man

Stella
Dance for three or six.
Music - another Catalan tune from the playing of Electrica Dharma:
Stella Splendens

The Mating Dance
Dance for two.
Music: from Encyclopædia Blowzabellica
Bourrée des Dindes

The Three Magicians
Dance for three
Music: from Playford
Childgrove

Standing Stones
Dance for six
Music: (anon, 12th century/Mediaeval Baebes))
Kinderly

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