Webfeet's Annotated eCeilidh

Annotated Dances

Webfeet's annotations, notes, queries and vague instructions on dances you might meet at an English Ceilidh.... by no way an attempt to record a definitive anything.

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You can also browse them ordered by year or by the number of dancers needed.

• All Stars

• The Canadian Barn Dance
• La Chapelloise
• The Circle Hornpipe
• Country Bumpkin

• Drops of Brandy

• Foula Reel

• The Guidman of Ballangigh

• The Horse's Branle (or the Horse's Brawl)

• The Ideal Schottische
• The Italian Polka

• The New Mrs Arrowsmith
• Nottingham Swing

• Portsmouth

• The Rifleman
• Rozsa or, as sometimes labeled, the Rosa Waltz

• Sir Roger de Coverley
• Speed the Plough
• Staffordshire Knot
• Stoke Golding Country Dance

• Is it a hop step or a step hop?
• Longsways for as many as will...
• The person of the opposite sex?
• There's more than one way of doing it...
• What's a hey?
• What's a cast and what's a turn?
• What's a Kick Balance?
• How do I Thread the Needle?

See also the Round's

• Descriptions of a whole list of dance elements
• Collected index of dances
• and Andrew Swaine's Getting started notes...