Dance sequences from trad-dance-callers

The traditional-dance-callers listserve has many dance instructions buried in the archives. Enough that I made a separate page for them. If you have trouble accessing them, see here.

These are mostly squares and family dances. I omitted contras because they're easy to search for (search 'A1 A2 B1 B2' or 'A1 A2 B1 B2 swing' in the yahoo group archives), and there's already so many on the web.

If you wish your dance or post de-linked, please contact me.

Quick index

• Squares
• Breaks
• Traditional
• 1950's/1960's
• Singing
• Contemporary
• Family (ONS)
• Longways
• Circles
• Trios
• No formation
• Germans
• Collections
• Programs
• Odd formations

Squares

• Breaks

  AB : Allemande alphabet.
  RS NM CH : Allemande Thar.
  RK DK : Breaks.
  RK : Broken grand square.
  BB : Recovery figure.
  LG AB : Red Hot.
  CH : Texas Star.

• Traditional

  SN : Arch of six.
  DL : Basket swing quadrille.
  BM BD DH : Bouquet waltz square.
  DL TP TP : Breakdown.
  FF : Butterfly Whirl.
  DM BM : Cheat or Swing.
  LE : Las Cuadrillas.
  TP : Dip and Dive.
  KD : Farmer's Daughter.
  AB RK : Farmer Gray.
  TP : Forward Five.
  BN JS FF : Forward Up Six.
  TP TP : Length of the Hall.
  LG WL DM DH : Ninepins.
  DM BM : Old Dan Tucker.
  TP DL : Page's Nightmare.
  BD : Paul Jones square.
  ST : Push Pa, Shove Ma.
  BD SG : Sally Goodin.
  FF EH : Texas Star.
  SM NM BB : Three Ladies Chain.
  AW : Waltz cotillion.

  • Big set/visiting

    SN : Chase the Rabbit.
    JS JS : Dive for the Oyster.
    KD FF BM : Double Bow Knot.
    FF BP : Grapevine Twist.
    BD : Shoofly Swing.
    NM DL : Take a Little Peek.
    NM BD : Two-leaf Clover.

• 1950's/1960's

  JS : Arkansas Star.
  DS AB : Arky Arky.
  SG AB : Australian Whirlwind.
  DK : Between Those Ladies.
  LM : Billy Boy.
  BD : Chinese Fan.
  CH : Four Poster Bed.
  TP WM : Indiana.
  EH : Riptide.
  DM JS : Sepulveda Tunnel.
  EH : Surf; Break the Wave.
  LE : Untitled roll-away.
  PL AB BD SG DM : Venus and Mars.
  DH : 1965 squares.

• Singing

  WL : Collection. (Lenk, Hendrickson)
  SM : Bye, Bye Blackbird.
  DC DL : Jingle Bells.
  FF : Marching Through Georgia.
  EH : Rap square.
  BL : Smoke on the Water lyrics.
  HF : Tiperary.
  DH DH DL : Uptown/Downtown.
  LM : Waltz Quadrille.
  CH CH HS BD : Yellow Rose of Texas.

• Contemporary

  SN SN SN : Box the Gnat square.
  JS : Camille's Quadrille; Queen's Quadrille.
  NM : Center Point Pair.
  M  : Five-couple square.
  FF : Honest Square Dance.
  BP : Ladies Chain square.
  ST : Ladies' Star Turn; Left Hand Star Breakdown; Six Pass Thru.
  JS JS : Monkey in the Middle.
  TS : Sheehan's Reel.
  DL : Three-Hand Star.
  EM EM : Throw a Fiver No. 6.

Family (ONS)

• Longways

  DL : Bear Went Over the Mountain.
  SN DM EH RK : Blobs.
  BB : Boston Tea Party.
  DM PR CK AF : Brandy Rump Bump.
  DL : Bridge of Athlone.
  DL : Celebrated Opera Reel.
  DL : Dance du Castor.
  DL : Duke of York.
  YC : Farmer's Jig.
  AW CH : Foula Reel.
  DM : Horserace.
  BM MB : Hunt the Fox.
  KD : Irish Trot.
  JS : Jacob's Potato.
  DM : Julian's Jolly.
  DL : Long Potato.
  AW : Margate Hoy and variants.
  DL : The MIT.
  DL : Norwegian.
  TP : Over the Top.
  DL : Plonguese.
  DL : Polka Contry.
  DL : Ribbon dance.
  PC : Rifleman.
  LT : Rural Felicity.
  KN DM : Snowball.
  DL : Sweets of May.
  AB PH : Untitled.
  DL : Virginia Reels.
  DS : Wizard's Walk.

  • Contras

    AH : Art's Easy Contras.
    DL DL : Blue Bell Reel.
    PR : Bob's Jig.
    DL : Jefferson & Liberty.
    DL : Pop Goes the Weasel.
    DL : Soldier's Joy.

• Circles

  AB : Bingo.
  TH : Color dance; Catch.
  SN : Donut Hole.
  SG : Grandmother's Cabinet.
  SM : Jump Josie.
  KD EH DL : No-teach dances.
  DS : Thiel's Duo.

  • Circle mixers

    DM : Blaydon Races.
    AW : Circle Waltz.
    BB : Patty Cake Polka.
    DL : Paul Jones.
    CH : Twelve Days of Christmas.

  • Sicilian circles

    RN : Balance the Star.
    RS : Haste to the Wedding.
    MW : Jingle Bells.
    DL JS : Soldier's Joy.
    AW JS : Spanish Dance.
    MC : Strawberry Way; Spokes of a Wheel.
    BB : Werries Circle Contra.

• Trios

  BD : 3x3 Bow Knot Mixer.
  NJ : Britannia Twostep.
  BD : Devil's Hornpipe.
  CG : Do Si Three.
  SN : Easy Three Person Mixer.
  BN : Haste to the Triverse; Pixie Jubilee Jig.
  DL : La Papillion; Reel a' Neuf.
  JS : Promenade a Trois.
  JS : Rustic Reel.
  LM : Thiel's Trio.
  AW : Three Meet.
  HF TH : Threesome mixer.
  AW : The Trio.

• No formation

  EH : Ah-Boom.
  RK : Angry birds.
  SN : Down by the Station.
  CG JS BM KD : Grand marches.
  ST DS : Jump Jim Joe.
  DM : Traffic Jam.

• Germans

  EH : Broom dance.
  DM KD KD JS KD : Fan dance.
  KD : Namecards.

• Other

  JS AW : Cake walks.
  KD AW KD : Maypole.
  BP : Seven Jumps.

• Collections

  AW : Celeigh.
  DL : Christmas.
  AW : Civil war.
  AW : English regency.
  AW : Historical.
  DL MM : Irish.
  ST : Singing games.
  LH RK : Swedish.
  ST DM ST DL LM LM : Young children.
  BB DL DL BK KD : Miscellaneous collections.

  • Programs

    FF : Fred Feild.
    CG : Culver Griffin.
    DM DM : David Millstone.
    TP TP : Tony Parkes.
    PR : Paul Rosenberg.
    JS JS : Jonathan Sivier.
    OW JK : Otto Warteman.

    • Dudley Laufman

      DL : Arch-free.
      DL : Family dance.
      DL : Mother/daughter.
      DL : School.
      DL DL DL : General.

Odd formations

• Longways

  BB : Brief Encounter.
  JS RK : TAG.
  DS : Ted's Triplets errata.

• Threesomes

  CH CH : The Gender Balance.
  BB JS MD : Twelve-person squares.
  EH : Wallpole Doll House.

• Odd numbers

  EH MF : Jack Turn Back.
  JM : Moon & Seven Stars.
  AW : Polka Dots.

• Other

  DL : The Mozart.
  BB JS : Ted's Double Quadrille.
  DM EH DM DM : Collections.

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