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Annie Askee

Alison Davey choreographed this dance in Summer 1991. It is an adaptation of the scoot dance Harvey Darvey for use as a social dance. The name "Annie…

Boscastle Breakdown Dance

Scoot dances like Boscastle Breakdown are a conversation between dancer and musician, a duet between melody and percussion. Both musician and dancer…

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Broom Stick Dance

Taught to Cornish Dance Group Cam Kernewek by Evan Trick, Boscastle, 1981. He explained that it was performed as a competition between dancers.

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Cock In Britches

Cornish Harvest Dance telling the story of the corn miming the sowing, weeding, cutting and winnowing. Audio file: CAtch Up Your Heels Project 2005

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Cornish Broom Dances

Popular across Cornwall at social events like the Harvest Supper and as part of Guize Dancing. The Broom dance in the Madron Guize dance can be traced…

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Cornish Girls / Mowysi Kernow / Trip To Truro

W. Arthur, Pascoe was an active member of the Old Cornwall Movement in Liskeard and a native of the nearby village of St Neot. He recalled this song…

Four Hand Reel / Plethen a Beswar

Taught to Cornish dance group Cam Kernewek by Arthur Biddick of Boscastle in 1982. Arthur strongly associated the tune with the Boscastle Breakdown…

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Harvey Darvey

The dance was recalled by a Mr R J Noall, in an Old Cornwall Society article (October 1927 page 36), as a dance game that he used to perform as a…

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Heva Dance

Communicated by Miss Rowland in June 1980, Mrs Hydon July 1980, Mr Nigel Tangye March 1985.The Heva dance was written in 1961 to provide a distinctive…

Lattapouch

As recalled by Edward Veal of Newquay

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