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.)
Its real name is "La Moscada", and it's played in the Mostra del Correfoc - part of the Festa Major. We put it in a minor key.

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 or 7).
Music: Trish Devitt
Ducks
(We don't have a sound file for this - drum music doesn't sound so great on midi!)

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

Standing Stones
Dance for six.
Music: Sarah Noyce
Standing Stones

The Three Magicians
Dance for three.
Music: Traditional English
Childgrove

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