| Dance Name | Author | Variants/comments | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Corelli's Maggot | Cathy and John Miller | |
| 2 | Draper's Gardens | Playford 1709 | |
| 3 | The Cotery | Keller 1790 | Triple minor |
| 4 | The Black Nag | Playford 1670 | 3-couple set called by Melinda Layden |
| 5 | Jack's Maggot | Playford 1702 | |
| 6 | Key to the Cellar | Jenny Beer | Triple minor |
| 7 | Trip to Greene | Gary Roodman | 3-couple set |
| 8 | Barbarini's Tambourine | Walsh 1741 | |
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| 9 | Quite Carr-ied Away | Pat Shaw | Triple minor done in 4-couple sets Dance of the month |
| 10 | Mad Robin | Playford 1695 | |
| 11 | Love and a Bottle | Kynaston 1710 | 3-couple set called by Victor Lindsey |
| 12 | Lilli Burlero | Playford 1690 | |
A rough night. I was moving that day, and had no time to eat dinner, never mind practice the dances. That hit me hard with "Quite Carr-ied Away." Not one of my better moments.
"Quite Carr-ied Away" is on our upcoming ball, a triple minor to be done Scottish-style with four couple sets. So I started by re-doing the familiar "Key to the Cellar" in the four-couple set formation, explaining progression. That went fine.
But in the actual dance, several things got confused. Next time I do it, in the B-part I'm definitely going to have the ones notice their corner after the right-hand turn, and mention both the hey and the left-hand turn start with that person.
And get straightened out the circle 1/2 versus the circle 1.
Some evenings go better than others...
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