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    • Three Legged Horse >
      • Three Legged Horse - figure 1
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      • Three Legged Horse - figure 3
    • Yorkshire Pudding >
      • Yorkshire Pudding Fig1
      • Yorkshire Pudding Fig2
    • Old Rosie
    • Manx White Boys
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    • Lingdale >
      • Lingdale Primrose Sword Dancers
      • Lingdale Figure 1
      • Lingdale Figure 2
  • Mumming Play
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    • Horse's Brawl
    • Pop goes the Weasel
    • Vandals of Hammerwich
    • British Grenadiers
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    • Captain Lanoe's Quick March
    • The Hesleyside
    • Creg Willy Sil
    • John Peel
    • Bobby Shafto
    • Lass O'Dallowgill
    • Keel Row
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Dances

Three Legged Horse
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A dance for three that we wrote ourselves to the tune of Horse's Brawl - hence the name 'Three Legged Horse'. It currently has three figures.

Yorkshire Pudding
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 Longsword dancing comes from Yorkshire, so we titled this dance after another popular Yorkshire tradition.  The dance has two figures.







Old Rosie

Elgin

Manx White Boys

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This is the dance that the Manx White Boys used to perform after their mumming play.






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Dance des Buffons
Bouffons, as it is usually known, is an odd animal.  It's a matachine dance from France in the 16th century, and the only one of its kind to have come down to us in any detail.  In 1589, a book called Orchesography was written by man using the pseudonym of Thoinot Arbeau.  This gives a complete step by step description of the dance and also provides the music.  
Matachine dances are the most likely ancestor of English morris dances with sticks (morris dances without sticks came centuries before the dances with sticks).
Although they use swords, matachine dances don't have any connection to longsword dancing.  Longsword is equally old, but is a linked sword dance.
Lingdale
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​Lingdale is a village in the North Riding of Yorkshire.
The Lingdale Primrose team was formed in 1926, and continued dancing until at least 1965.  This was their dance.

Sword Play

The Sword play can be tacked onto the end of most dances, as long as they end in either a star or triangle (not twisted triangle) lock.  Remember you need two people left over for the Doctor and the Corpse.
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  • Home
  • Dances
    • Three Legged Horse >
      • Three Legged Horse - figure 1
      • Three Legged Horse - figure 2
      • Three Legged Horse - figure 3
    • Yorkshire Pudding >
      • Yorkshire Pudding Fig1
      • Yorkshire Pudding Fig2
    • Old Rosie
    • Manx White Boys
    • Elgin
    • Bouffons
    • Lingdale >
      • Lingdale Primrose Sword Dancers
      • Lingdale Figure 1
      • Lingdale Figure 2
  • Mumming Play
  • Music
    • Horse's Brawl
    • Pop goes the Weasel
    • Vandals of Hammerwich
    • British Grenadiers
    • Bouffons
    • Captain Lanoe's Quick March
    • The Hesleyside
    • Creg Willy Sil
    • John Peel
    • Bobby Shafto
    • Lass O'Dallowgill
    • Keel Row
    • Oyster Girl
    • Kafoozalum
  • About Us
    • Contact Us
    • Where do we meet?
    • Southern Star's History
    • Constitution
    • Costume
    • Committee Jobs
  • Research
    • Manx White Boys
    • Lingdale >
      • Peter Kennedy's 1948 notes on Lingdale
      • Longsword Dancing in Cleveland
  • Events
  • Gallery
  • Elgin Origins
  • New Page