New Corona Band

Dances

Don't Panic!

You don't have to know the dances - Kaz will walk everyone through the dances before embarking on them, and explain all the moves you need to do. You may not know a do-si-do from a left-hand star at the beginning of the evening, but by the end, all will become clear.

Don't worry when the dance goes wrong (as it quite possibly will) - it's all about enjoying yourselves. And when it all comes together, it's a wonderful feeling. Or so I've been told anyway, being the band member with two left feet.

Some of the dances are vigorous and some more sedate. Anyone of average modern-day British fitness levels will manage any of them. The band consider themselves to be averagely unfit, so use them as a yardstick (they also regularly complain about their glasses being half-empty, but it's safe to ignore that).

Dancers generally require partners - conventionally it's male and female, but that's only so you know which of you goes which side. Circle dances are based on a circle (which should come as no surprise), while set dances need sets, or groups, of people - generally a set number of couples but occasionally they're for more unusual numbers of people (Hot Cross Bun features sets of five people, for example).

This is a (non-exhaustive) list of the dances we do:

Circle dances Dorset Ring Cardassian Circle [1] Lucky 7 Circle Waltz

The joy of sets Wooton Walk Bridge of Athlone Clopton Bridge Grand National Hot Cross Bun Square 8 Rickety Bridge Flying Scot - very vigorous Nottingham Swing Drops of Brandy Rifleman Snowball Oak Tree

Free format dance Thread the Needle

[1] That's my fault - it's the Circassian Circle but when you have an amnesiac Star Trek enthusiast like me writing things down, sometimes they go awry...

Sample MP3s

Morning Star / Winterbourne / Ragged Crow / Three handed Reel Tenpenny Bit / Blackthorn Stick / Rossi's Reel Sean Ryan's / Dennis Murphy's