Dance Selection

Dances around 1800 – Duple & Triple Minors

for Dance-Focus & Fancy Vintage events such as May Dance and New Year's Eve

The repertoire compiled here offers a versatile selection of Country Dances that flourished between the years 1770 and 1820. As this collection comprises both simple dances for convivial evenings with a "caller" as well as complex reconstructions for formal balls, each dance is marked with a level of difficulty ranging from * (easy) to ***** (highly demanding).

Only "Mr. Beveridge’s Maggot****" falls temporally outside this frame: This dance dates back to the year 1695, yet it must not be absent from any Jane Austen dance evening, as it was featured in the cinematic adaptations of both "Pride & Prejudice" and "Emma" for their famous ball scenes.

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Brashes of Balinascorthy (The)**

Hime, 1799

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Lady Mc. Intosh's Reel*

Crooke, 1796

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Lord Nelson's Waltz***

Champbel, 1799

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Alderman’s Hat****

Thompson, 1773–1779

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Bishop (The)****

Thompson, 1778

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Campbel has got his wife again**

Preston, 1799

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Comical Fellow (The)**

Thompson, 1776

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Croppies lie down*

Campbell, 1799

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Dress’d Ship (The)**

Thompson, 1774

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Duke of Kent’s Waltz (The)***

Cahusac, 1801

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Fig for Bonaparte (A)**

Thompson, 1804

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First of April (The)*

Thompson, 1780
Community version as Duple Minor

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First of April (The)**

Thompson, 1780
Caution: The original version is a Triple Minor!

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Go to the Devil and shake yourself*

Kauntze, 1795

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Knole Park**

Voigt, 1809

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Lady Caroline Bertie***

Button & Whitaker, 1814

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Lady Shaftesbury****

Kauntze, 1795

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Leamington Dance (The)***

Wheatstone & Voigt, circa 1811

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Long Odds (The)***

Preston, 1791

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Lyme Park***

Cahusac, 1791

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Miss Campbell’s Reel***

Dale, 1800

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Miss Farren’s Whim****

Tracy, 1795

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Miss Tashi’s Maggot***

Thompson, 1776

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Mr. Beveridge’s Maggot****

Playford, 1695

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Mrs. Blair of Blairs Reel***

Campbell, 1801

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Mrs. Stewart’s Reel*

Tracy, 1795

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Mutual Love*

Thompson, 1777

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New Bridge (The)***

Campbell, 1801

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New German Waltz (The)***

Kauntze, 1795

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Orpheus and Eurydice*

Preston, 1794

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Pas Russe**

Preston, 1799

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Prince Regent (The)***

Unknown, 1815

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Prince William of Glos’ter’s Waltz (The)****

Preston, 1801

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Rainbow (The)**

Thompson, 1780

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Sprigs of Laurel**

Thompson, 1794

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Toy (The)****

Button & Whitaker, 1812

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Trip to Bengall (A)*

Thompson, 1765

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Vauxhall Gipsey (The)**

Preston, 1794

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Village Maid (The)***

Campbell, 1786

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Wakefield Hunt***

Thompson, 1779

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We will down with the French**

Thompson, 1780

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Whaland’s Fancy****

Skillern, 1799

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Whim of the Moment (The)***

Thompson, 1791

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Wildboar’s Maggot***

Thompson, 1758

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Young Widow (The)**

Griffiths, 1788–1794

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During the courses, German is predominantly spoken.
At the ball, all calls are in German and English, yet still employing the historical English names for the dance figures.
In doing so, I orient myself by the figure catalogs of the epoch.

Thank you very much for your understanding.
I wish you much pleasure in dancing.