Dance Repertoire for the Shire of Rivenvale
List of Dances by Arrangement and Number of Dancers
Italian Dance Steps (a basic summary)
15th Century Italian
16th Century Italian
Arbeau (1589)
- Clog Bransle (miming)
- Double Bransle
- Horses Bransle (miming)
- Maltese (Turkish) Bransle (miming)
- Montarde Bransle
- Official Bransle
- Pease Bransle (miming)
- Bransle Pinagay
- Single Bransle
- Torch Bransle
- Bransle of War
- Washerwomen’s Bransle (miming)
Inns of Court (1570-1675)
Playford (1651 – Original)
- Argeers
- Beggar Boy
- Cuckolds All a Row
- Gathering Peascods
- Glory of the West
- Goddesses
- Grimstock
- Heart’s Ease
- If All the World Were Paper
- Jenny Pluck Pears
- My Lady Cullen
- Newcastle
- Parson’s Farewell
- Picking of Sticks
- Rufty Tufty
- Upon a Summer’s Day
Playford (Later editions) and other
Later English Country Dances
- Black Nag
- Epping Forest
- Female Sailor
- Hole in the Wall
- I Care Not For These Ladies
- Mad Robin
- Sellenger’s Round
- Stingo (or Oyle of Barley)
- Trenchmore
SCA Inventions
(designed to feel “period,” but modern creations without actual historical evidence)
- The Boatswain’s Catch
- Korobushka
- Rivenvale Bransle (premiered at Fall Bransle III)
- Spring Is Near
- The Wayward Hound