This is dance #3500 in The Caller's Box, a contra dance database.

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New Century Hornpipe

by Traditional

Permission: full

FormationBase: Duple Minor - Proper
Progression: Single

Figures:

A1

(8) Ones go forward and back

(8) Ones allemande right 1 & 1/2

A2

(8) Ladies chain to partner

(8) Ladies chain to neighbor

B1

(8) Ones go forward and back

(8) Ones allemande right 1 & 1/2

B2

(8) Same-role right and left through with neighbor

(8) Same-role right and left through with neighbor

Calling Notes:

Ladies chain to partner starts from unprogressed positions, finishes in progressed positions.
In Cracking Chesnuts, the A1 allemande right happens while moving down the set as the twos shift up the outside.


Appearances: The Contra Dance Book, p 85
Cracking Chestnuts, p 71
Howe 1858, p 83
Howe 1862, p 82
Schell 1890, p 58
Washburn 1863, p 11
website CDSS Cracking Chestnuts
website CDSS Cracking Chestnuts
Northern Junket, vol 3, no 5, p 17
Stockton Dance Camp Syllabus, vol 1952, p 74
Stockton Dance Camp Syllabus, vol 1953, p 65
Stockton Dance Camp Syllabus, vol 1954, p 78
Stockton Dance Camp Syllabus, vol 1955, p 72
Stockton Dance Camp Syllabus, vol 1957, p 128
Stockton Dance Camp Syllabus, vol 1958, p 95
Stockton Dance Camp Syllabus, vol 1959, p 94
OtherNames: Charlie Over the Water
Over the Water to Charlie
VariantVideos:
A1, B1: Ones balance (RH); allemande right 1 & 1/2
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A1, B1: Ones balance twice instead of forward and back
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A1: During allemande, ones shift down, twos go up outside
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