A relatively new addition to the repertoire, borrowed by Sophie from the Maldon Greenjackets. The Greenjackets, and therefore also Lagabag, do the 'long' version of the dance, with a foot-up preceding each chorus.

Otherwise known as 'Highland Laddie'. I'm not convinced that these are the original words, but they are the ones we sing!

This is a strange dance, with its 'hiccups' at regular intervals, but it's a bit different to the rest of the Adderbury tradition, and we like the variety. We don't sing on the walk round, although there are various sets of words for this tune (some of them ruder than others!).

One of the Adderbury standards.

Another oddity, this one, but one we are quite fond of (although the musicians aren't so sure!). The strange shaking movement of the feet is intended to make the bells jingle.

We haven't done this one for quite a while but are keeping it on the repertoire list as a reminder that we want to resurrect it at some point!

This is usually the first dance we teach to newcomers, as it's a nice easy one to pick up.

We use one of two tunes: if Judy's playing we use the traditional tune, which is the one shown in the PDF file, but if Sophie's playing we use a modern tune, the history of which we are currently trying to trace. We think it originated with a Suffolk band called Syzewell Gap but it seems to have undergone one or two twists in the meantime. Watch this space and if we manage to pin it down we'll add it to the site!

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This is a very unusual dance and although it's nominally in the Bampton style, it doesn't really follow any normal pattern, and certainly isn't traditional. We're not sure where it came from originally, but we think it might have been invented by a Canadian side. It's danced in a kind of lozenge-shaped formation, with the dancers moving on to the next place after each figure. We've made an effort to keep it in the side because it's so different to everything else we do.

Otherwise known as "chicken chasing" - or at least during practices! The movement of the hankies in the chorus is said to represent the gathering in of the wheat followed by the shaking out of the chaff.

A lot of sides, including Lagabag, use this as a 'farewell' dance - the last dance of an event, where we get as many people as possible to join in, as we do (for example) every year at the Ipswich Riverside Folk Weekend (see http://www.irfmf.org.uk/07bonnygreen.htm).

The tune also ended up being used for a song that Sophie wrote about dancing the sun up on May Day - it's available on the playlist at http://www.myspace.com/3triangle3. Sophie's dad Mike was a morris dancer, so the tune was appropriate in more ways than one.

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Otherwise known as "William & Nancy in columns". If you can do one, you can do the other, so newcomers to Bleddington can learn two for the price of one!

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Although this dance is still officially in the Lagabag repertoire, we haven't actually practised it for quite a long time. We're keeping it on the dance sheet so we don't forget about it altogether, and we'll resurrect it one of these days!

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Banbury Bill is the first hanky dance we teach newcomers; this is the first stick dance. It also tends to be the one we choose if we're asked to teach a dance to a group of non-dancers, as has happened on a number of occasions.

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Known in Lagabag circles as "ones and sixes", this dance slowly revolves as the dancers in positions one and six come face to face in each chorus, forcing the other dancers to regroup around them. It's easy to lose your sense of direction after a while, so we tend to have the musician following the set as it moves round. The top of the set is always where the musician is!