Dances and Tunes

The Dances

	All Around My Hat		Cuckoo's Nest
	Duel of Honour		East Acton Stick Dance
	The Lollipop Man		Not Not For Joe
	Shropshire Morris		Tinners’ Rabbits
	Valiant Soldier

Also Maypole Music

Rules of Thumb

When in doubt, follow these rules:

1. Always start right foot first.
2. When resting stick on shoulder, the tip of the stick should be level with the middle of your ear.
3. Turns on the spot will usually be right-hand turns (clockwise). Common exceptions are when dancers need to turn in or out of a set the shortest way.
4. When passing shoulders with another dancer, the first pass will almost always be a right-shoulder pass. Most dances will have figures that alternate right and left shoulders.
5. Where a fast turn on the spot is needed, it will be on the first beat of the bar. E.g. If you need to turn and then move across the set, you can count it as ‘turn, two, three, four’.
6. Swings with a partner will be right-hand (clockwise), with the stick held in the left hand, unless otherwise specified.
7. Figures are in multiples of four beats. If you mentally keep counting ‘one, two, three, four’, then you’ll have a good idea of when to move and change.