Playford's Progeny

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====== VINTAGE 38 ======

Three-couple longways.\\
Progression: 3-1-2. Triple time, three steps to the bar.\\
Tune called The Last Mage (Mik Lammers)
<code>
A 1-2 Ones set.
  3-4 Ones cross right shoulder and move down below the twos who move up.
  5-8 Ones half figure eight up through the twos, then turn single 
      downwards (man right, woman left).
Exwood hey
Bl 1-2 Ones go individually to the right passing first corner left shoulder 
       for half a straight hey for three across the set, all finishing 
       across from where they started.
   3-4 Three men half a straight hey (first and second man passing right 
       shoulder), while three women the same (first and third woman 
       passing right shoulder).
   5-8 Repeat all that, all finishing where they started the heys.
B2 1-4 Ones go individually to the right and circle three to the left 
       halfway; third woman and second man then release their left hands, 
       all join hands in a ring of six and circle to the left halfway.
   5-8 All right shoulder gypsy partner, the ones go once and three quarters, the twos
        and the threes just once around.
        Repeat twice.</code>
Video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49CXDT6w_AQ\\
The A part should be danced in a continuously flowing movement without strict adherence to
the barring.

In the Exwood hey’ the ones move anticlockwise round the set in a series of loops, the first
and third loop being three-quarters loops to the left and the second and fourth being whole
loops to the right. The second woman and the third man also move anticlockwise round the
set effectively following the first man and woman respectively; the second man and third
woman move clockwise round the set.

Each second and third couple dancer will be facing ‘the wrong way’ at the end of the second
and fourth half heys and will need to do a little loop in the logical direction (second woma
and third man right, third woman and second man left). 

In the gypsy (B2, 5-8) the ones meet as if about to do a back to back and immediately do a
tight gypsy to spiral out onto the wrong side of the set so that in the last two bars all cross
together to the right side.

An English country dance written by Antony Heywood (Geldrop, the Netherlands) for Ian Exwood, 


 ====== SILVER SEPTEMBER ======
 
Duple proper longways. Waltz time.\\
Tune called Silver September (Mik Lammers)\\
<code>
Al 1-4 First corners set and half a right-hand turn.
   5-6 First corners move clockwise round their same sex neighbors to 
       original place. 
   7-8 All move clockwise single file one place round the set of four, 
       no hands joined. 
A2 1-4 Second corners (i.e. second man and first woman) set and half a 
       right-hand turn.
   5-6 Second corners move clockwise round their partners back to where 
       they started the movement begun in A2.
   7-8 All move clockwise single file one more place round the set of four. 
       All are progressed and improper. 
Bl 1-4 Ones cross right shoulder and move up above the twos who set and lead down.
   5-8 Ladies chain across the set (don’t chain back).
B2 1-4 Joining hands in a ring of four, circle left three-quarters, then 
       cloverleaf turn single (men right, women left); end facing neighbor 
       up and down the set.
   5-8 Ones half figure eight up through the twos who move down the outside 
       and fall pack up the middle (as in Long Pond), then all two-hand turn 
       partner halfway.</code>

An English country dance written by Antony Heywood (Geldrop, the Netherlands) 
on the occasion of Mia and Eef van Brakel’s silver wedding, 10 September 1994.January шn Englis) 1998.


====== AN ALTERNATIVE LINE-UP ======
 

Becket formation contra. Clockwise progression. \\
Tune called Case Dismissed (Mik Lammers) 
<code>
Al Women do-si-do, once and a half (8)
   With your neighbor right shoulder gypsy, once and a quarter, finishing 
   facing up and down the hall, men on the inside, women on the outside (8)
A2 Promenade single file; turn alone (8)
   Same way back, go past your neighbor to meet a new neighbor (8)
BI With your new neighbor left shoulder gypsy, then men cross the set 
   passing right shoulder (8)
   Swing your partner (8)
B2 Join hands in a ring of four, circle left once around (8)
   Same two couples right and left through across (8)</code>

A New England style contra dance by Philippe Callens (Antwerp, Belgium) written November 
1994 and twice revised, February 1997 and June 2000.