Dances Lent 2025

This page lists the dances that were called at The Round during the Lent Term 2025.

You can find dances for the previous term here, and for other terms in the dance history files, or you can search the whole dance history for a particular dance or caller, or list the dances called most often in a range of years.

For more information about any of the dances, try Hugh Stewart’s English Country Dance Database or Antony Heywood’s Dance Database. Details of many of the dances we do regularly can be found in Round Reminders.

Week 1 (23 January)

Jemima Swain

  • La Chapelloise
  • Black Nag
  • Blackberry Trace
  • Beyond the Waterfall
  • The Geud Man of Ballangigh

Colin Hume

  • Leah’s Waltz
  • Red House
  • Frederick Contra
Week 2 (30 January)

Edmund Croft

  • Miss Sayers’ Allemande
  • Madame Buonaparte’s Waltz
  • Jackey Tarr
  • Sprigs of Laurel
  • Le Boulanger

John Thoburn

  • Swept Away
  • Whiskeyjack
  • Hazelfern Place
  • Michedonia
Week 3 (6 February)

Zoë Mackay

  • Pleasures of the Town
  • The Alderman’s Hat
  • A School for Scandal
  • The Bath Waltz

Ido Kons

  • Ely Minster
  • The Happy Pilgrim
  • Welcome home old Rowley
  • The Cornish Squire
Week 4 (13 February)

Hugh Stewart

  • Fourpence Halfpenny Farthing
  • Mutual Love
  • Waterfall Waltz
  • The Lover’s Knot
  • Sapphire Sea
  • Love and Kisses

Anthony Stone

  • The Indian Queen
  • The Bonny Cuckoo
  • Shrewsbury Lasses
  • Sun Assembly
  • A Trip to Town-O
Week 5 (20 February)

Charlie Turner

  • Barham Down
  • Hole in the Wall
  • Nonesuch
  • Helena

Spikey

  • Kelsterne Gardens
  • Mad Orbin
  • The Fandango
  • The Emperor of the Moon
Week 6 (27 February)

Hannah Stone

  • The Geudman of Ballangigh
  • The Indian Queen
  • Nonesuch
  • Shrewsbury Lasses
  • The Leaving of Liverpool

Bob Ridout

  • Jacob Hall’s Jig
  • John Tallis’s Canon
  • Breathless Contra
  • Candles in the Dark
  • If I Had Maggie in the Wood
Week 7 (6 March)

Ella Hughes

  • The Black Nag
  • Mad Moll
  • Childgrove

Jemima Swain

  • The Lover’s Knot
  • Festival Jig

Matthew Vernon

  • Apley House
  • The Virgin Queen
  • Grimstock
  • Red House
  • Sapphire Sea
Week 8 (13 March)

Zoë Mackay

  • Sun Assembly
  • The Capstan Star
  • Juniata
  • Fandango
  • The Willow Tree

Edmund Croft

  • Mount Hills
  • Nottingham Swing
  • A Trip to Paris
  • Melted Butter
  • Childgrove
Party (20 March)
  • The Geud Man of Ballangigh (1)
  • La Chapelloise (2)
  • The Happy Pilgrim (3)
  • Welcome home old Rowley (4)
  • Candles in the Dark (5)
  • Levi Jackson Rag (6)
  • The Seige of Limerick (4)
  • Beyond the Waterfall (1)
  • Maggie’s Hobby (7)
  • Old Wife behind the Fire (3)
  • Sapphire Sea (8)
  • The Emperor of the Moon (8)
  • Childgrove (8)
  1. Jemima Swain
  2. Anthony Stone
  3. Charlie Turner
  4. Ido Kons
  5. Bob Ridout
  6. Spikey Griffiths
  7. Colin Hume
  8. Matthew Vernon