Adderbury

Blue Bells of Scotland

4, 6 man stick dance

Stepping: Standard Adderbury (double step x2, single step x2, feet together jump (and clash))

As Lads a Buncham, but with slightly different chorus.

• Chorus:

• sticking - Odds x 2, Evens x 2, Odds x 2, Evens x 2, Odd, Even, Odd, Even, Clash. Then repeat.

• For 4 dancers the chorus is done alternatively across the set and up/down.

• For 6 dancers the chorus is done across the set, then 1/3 2/4 5/6, then 1/2 3/5 4/6

Lads a Buncham

4, 6 man stick dance

Stepping is standard Adderbury - double step x2, single step x2, feet together jump (and clash).

• Sequence:

• Walk round singing

• Foot up (dance up and back x2)

• Chorus (doubles)

• Half hands (across the set passing right shoulders, back, left shoulder, back)

• Chorus (singles)

• Process down (top couple down, back, top two couples down, back)

• Chorus (overheads)

• Hands around (give right hands go round, pull back, repeat with left hands)

• Chorus (doubles)

• Process up (bottom couple down, back, bottom two couples down, back)

• Chorus (singles)

• Hey (4 man - form line and turn right and do 4 man hey, 6 man - along sides)

• Chorus (overheads)

• Chorus

• Sticking - Odd x3, Even x3, Odd, Even, Odd, Even, Odd, Even, Clash. Then repeat.

Shooting

6, 4 man corner stick dance

Stepping is Adderbury single step with three plain capers (and clash) at the end of each phrase.

• Sequence:

• Walk round, first half beating, second half under arm

• Foot up (dance up and back x2)

• Chorus (clashing)

• Half Hands (across the set passing right shoulders, back, left shoulder, back)

• Chorus (shoot)

• Process DOWN (top couple down, back, top two couples down, back)

• Chorus (rooks)

• Hands around (give right hands go round, pull back, repeat with left hands)

• Chorus (clash)

• Process UP (bottom couple down, back, bottom two couples down, back)

• Chorus (shoot)

• Hey (4 man - form line and turn right and do 4 man hey, 6 man - along sides)

• Chorus (rooks)

• Chorus:

• 1st corner, 2nd corner, middles (or along sides if have 4 dancers), partners.

• Butt on ground, tip on ground, action (clash, shoot, rooks)

Bampton

Bonny Green Garters

6, 4 man handkerchief dance

Standard Bampton stepping and hand movements.

• Sequence

• Foot up (up and back, turn RIGHT 180, down and back)

• Half gyp (across set, pass right shoulders and back, repeat left)

• Whole gyp (spiral around partner right shoulders, repeat spiralling left moving inward and then swagger back)

• Rounds (circle round stepping, swagger and turn, spring caper, stepping, swagger without turning, spring caper)

• Sidesteps (round circle)

• Spring capers (round circle)

• All in to end

• No chorus

Country Gardens

6, 4 man handkerchief corner dance

Normal Bampton stepping and hand movements

• Sequence

• Foot up (Bampton style)

• Chorus (half through version)

• Half gyp

• Chorus (through version)

• Whole gyp

• Chorus (through version)

• Half rounds (i.e. normal Bampton stepping rounds, turn around half way through)

• All in to end

• Chorus:

• 1st corners, 2nd corners, 3rd corners (if they exist)

• Half through

• Corners approach and turn away to own places in 6 bars of sidestep (with shows), then ALL caper L R L R

• Through

• As half through but instead of turning back to place pass left shoulders

Highland Mary (Chicken Chasers)

6, 4, 3 man handkerchief dance

Normal Bampton stepping and hand movements

• Sequence:

• Foot Up (Bampton style)

• Chorus

• Half Gyp

• Chorus

• Whole Gyp

• Chorus

• Half Rounds (normal stepped rounds, turning round half way through)

• Chorus

• Chorus:

• Chicken chasers, half hey (in 6 man, along sides, in 4 man on the diagonals)

3 man version (stepping and hands as normal, chorus as for half a 6 man set):

• Figures:

• Foot Up: start in long line facing up, do as normal

• Half Gyp: All face Right side, middle stay still, top dance forward, bottom dance back (diagonal lines), on caper turn around and repeat in other direction

• Whole Gyp: Middle does half of whole gyp with top person, other half with bottom person, person not gypping turns round in correct direction on spot

• Half Rounds: drop into a triangle for rounds - top forward, middle back, bottom remain

Nutting Girl

2, 1 man jig, no sticks or handkercheifs

Normal Bampton stepping and hand movements

• Sequence (in each alternate first and second person except final chorus)

• Foot up (normal Bampton stepping and hands)

• Chorus

• Upright capers (squats - hop hop squat, hop hop squat etc. until music tells you to do a foot up and back)

• Chorus

• Spring capers (spring until music tells you to do a foot up and back)

• Chorus

• Chorus:

• Close sidestep: | R L R L | R L R hop | L R L R | L R L hop |

• Open sidestep | R L R hop | L R L hop |

• 2 spring capers

• Foot up x 2

Princess Royal

2, 1 man jig, no sticks or handkerchiefs

Normal Bampton stepping and hand movements

• Sequence (in each alternate first and second person except final chorus)

• Foot up (normal Bampton stepping and hands)

• Chorus

• Upright capers (squats - hop hop squat, hop hop squat etc. until music tells you to do a foot up and back)

• Chorus

• Spring capers (spring until music tells you to do a foot up and back)

• Chorus

• Chorus together to end

• Chorus:

• Sidestep: | R L R L | R L R hop | L R L R | L R L hop |

• Cross/uncross free foot in this rhythm (follows the music): (right foot) x x x x | x x x - | (left foot) x x x - | (right foot) x x x - |

• Foot up

Saturday Night

6, 4, 3 man handkerchief dance

Normal Bampton stepping and hand movements

• Sequence:

• Start in opposite corners of the dance floor and dance from there into position

• Face other dancer

• Normal Bampton stepping and hands

• Chorus

• Repeat until everyone is dancing

• 6 man version:

• Continue through the sequence with Rounds

• 4 man version:

• Whole Hey, caper pass right shoulders to be side by side

• Chorus

• In final chorus time do 2 spring capers past dancer turning right past them into circle.

• Half Rounds

• End all in

• Chorus:

• Sidestep right, sidestep left, 4 plain capers

• Sidestep right, sidestep left, 2 spring capers past dancer onto the next

3 man version

• Start with single person doing it all

• Then with second person as if starting 4/6 man version

• Then form triangle with 3rd person

• Rounds

• End all in

Simon’s Fancy

Tune: Rambling Sailor

4 man corner handkerchief dance

Normal Bampton Stepping and Hands

• Sequence:

• Foot Up

• Chorus 1

• Half Gyp

• Chorus 2

• Whole Gyp

• Chorus 2

• Rounds

• Chorus 1 (end all in)

• Chorus 1:

• First corners (moving towards and passing each other) - side step right (with show), side step left (with show), salut, 2 side steps to go around person on right, swagger and caper (normal bampton) back to place

• Second corners repeat

• All together

• Chorus 2:

• Spring capers instead of saluts

Webley Twizzle

6, 3 man handkerchief dance

Normal Bampton stepping and hand movements (as Saturday Night), except in chorus.

• Sequence:

• Foot up (up and back, turn RIGHT 180, down and back)

• Chorus

• Half gyp (across set, pass right shoulders and back, repeat left)

• Chorus

• Whole gyp (spiral around partner right shoulders, repeat spiralling left moving inward and then swagger back)

• Chorus

• Rounds (circle round stepping, swagger and turn, spring caper, stepping, swagger without turning, spring caper)

• Chorus is shorter than expected:

• Sidestep right, sidestep left

• Twizzle - spring caper turning immediately into start of hey

• Half hey (two single swagger steps and spring caper)

• Repeat back

3 man version:

• Figures

• Foot up - as normal

• Half Gyp

• There are two variants, both can be done

• Ends start facing out of set, middle faces in (i.e. at 180 to each other)

• Step in direction facing, back, spring caper turning 180

• Repeat in opposite direction

• In the second variant the ends start facing ends with the middle facing in (i.e. 90 to each other)

• Satellites (Whole gyp)

• Ends circle half way around middle and back the same way

• Middle step on the spot, spring caper turning 180, and repeat.

• Rounds

• As normal - middle spring forward to start.

Lichfield

Jenny Lind

6 man stick and a half dance

All single step

Set numbering:

• Sequence:

• Swagger Round (lines swagger in opposite directions round the circle, odds clockwise, evens anti-clockwise, odds pass outside at top, inside at bottom)

• Chorus

• Heading Up (all dance up to form a line of order 5 3 1 2 4 6)

• Chorus (slow, all single hits))

• Heading Down (all dance down to form a line of order 1 3 5 6 4 2)

• Chorus (double taps on own stick)

• Back to back (both right shoulder then left shoulder)

• Chorus

• Lichfield Hey (Always pass right shoulder, first corners cross, then, tops change side while sides cross over heading up or down, repeat until dancers back in position, 3x A music)

• Chorus

• Chorus (double time!)

• Chorus: Sticking! (Left hand = big stick, Right hand = half stick)

• LH (ground x2)

• LH (partner x2)

• RH (RH on LH tipp x2)

• RH (partner x2)

• RH (RH on LH tipp x2)

• RH (partner x2)

• RH (RH on LH tipp x2)

• RH (partner x2)

• LH (ground x2)

• LH (partner x2)

• RH (RH on LH tipp x2)

• RH (partner x2)

• RH (RH on LH: tipp butt tipp butt)

• RH (partner x3)

• Repeat for good measure.

Vandals of Hammerwich

6, 4, 3 man stick dance

Stepping **probably not correct…**

• 6 double steps (R L R hop, L R L hop, R L R hop, L R L hop), 2 single steps back (R hop, L hop), 2 plain capers, end feet apart with stick up

Figures as in Jenny Lind

• Sequence:

• Walk Round - hold stick in both hands, swing stick gently as walk round (swagger)

• Chorus

• Heading Up

• Chorus

• Heading Down

• Chorus

• Back to Back

• Chorus

• If have more people insert Lichfield Hey + Chorus here

• Chorus

• Sticking :| Diag R - | Diag L - | (With partner) R L | R L | (if no-one on diagonals then hit the floor)

• Stepping: Double step right, double step left, 2 plain capers, end feet apart with stick up

• Repeat.

3 man version:

• Chorus:

• As above, except the “with partner” sticking is done on the diagonals by the person in the middle

• Figures:

• Heading Up: top person moves fractionally forward, others dance to either side and back

• Heading Down: as heading up but with bottom person remaining in place

• Back to back: Half Gyp essentially

Upton On Severn

Upton On Severn Stick Dance

4 man stick dance

Double stepping

• Sequence:

• Morris round (all sticks in the middle)

• Chorus (tipps and butts)

• Horizontal hey

• Chorus (staves (fighting))

• Allemand right (essentially a back to back right shoulder)

• Chorus (fencing)

• Cross and turn (1 on spot, 1 to cross, 1 to turn right, 1 to turn 180 left, 1 to turn 270 left, 1 to cross, 1 to turn round, 1 on spot)

• Chorus (tipps and butts)

• Allemand left

• Chorus (staves)

• Normal hey

• Chorus (fencing)

• Morris round (all sticks in middle)

• All in to end

• Chorus:

• 8 clashes, dance in small individual circle, repeat