There is no guarantee that any of the following bears any resemblance to anything we may have done in the past of may do in the future.  Our Crib Sheet can be obtained here, although anyone trying to use it to copy our dances does so entirely at there own risk - we've never claimed that any of them are possible. On a serious note though, we don't mind people using our dances provided that they acknowledge that they got them from us* and that they don't use them when we're dancing at the same event without checking with us first**.

*Providing of course that they do them well, otherwise they can claim they wrote them themselves.

** Failure to do this could result in us doing exactly the same dance straightaway 'to show the audience what its supposed to be like'

Adverse Camber

(aka 'the new molly dance')  New in 2004.  The side put this together during the winter using  the bits of a dance that we concocted a couple of years earlier when the then six members were bored.  That dance, which had a working title of 'The Motorway Dance' and which had a totally stationary figure called M25 never saw  the light of day because there was a sudden influx of new members and we had to teach them the existing ones.

Having revived it, we abandoned all but the chorus, changed it from a Border dance with sticks to a Molly dance, then totally changed the chorus as well.

Almost Together

(aka 'Almost')  A fairly new dance which we put together one evening when only three people turned up for practice and there's only some many times you can put up with Sheepskins.

When we danced this at Sowerby Bridge Rushbearing, they seemed to think that we should drop the 'Almost' part of it,  so when we got back we decided we should rework it.  We've changed the end and one of the figures, so once again its almost together!

Bristol

One of our own dances. It is called Bristol because:

1. it is;
2. Bristol’s somewhere over to the west, near Wales and is therefore a Welsh Border Village;
3. we first danced it at Bristol Zoo;
4. we wanted it to be called Bristol

We made a change to this one in 2001 which seems to have survived and is now a real part of the dance.

Clifton Silsbury

This dance came from some notes that we used to run a workshop. Other sides dance a version of it; some call it the Fairy Dance because that's the name of the tune that it is danced to.

Mostly Clockwise

It's called Mostly Clockwise because it is, mostly.

Central Milton Keynes

(aka CMK) Just across our county border there is a wild unexplored place called Milton Keynes. Those who have ventured into the interior have reported that it is a series of roundabouts connected by straight road-like structures. Some of the figures in this dance go round; the others are in straight lines.  One of these days the musicians will learn the tune so that we can actually perform it!

Cleethorpes

 This one was new in 1998 and was first performed at …. Cleethorpes of course... but is very rarely performed these days.

Contraflow

 Anyone who lives in our part of Northamptonshire and who has ever driven a motor vehicle will understand this dance which has a lot of ins and outs and swapping sides.

Cosgrove

 Well, we have to have a dance named after our home village, don't we? (Even though none of us live anywhere near there and our only connection is that we use the village hall to practice, and the village pub to relax afterwards).  If we're really going to have a dance go wrong on us, then this is the one.  On one legendary occasion it went so bad that we danced on, did half a chorus and then danced off again.

(Cosgrove is a genuine Border Village - its only just inside Northamptonshire)

Dilwyn

 Much to our amazement, we've realized that we dance a fairly  traditional version of this without any add-ons, bells, or whistles. (OK so there might be bells on our legs and some whistles in the band, but you know what I mean). We only use it when we're desperate and it’s the only thing we can think of; or we want a bit of audience participation.

Diversion

For some reason we always think were going to have difficulties with this dance. One of the side calls it the Car Park dance because he remembers the first time he did it ..(the dance)

We've not used this dance in a performance for ages so the chances of seeing us perform it in 2006 are pretty slim.  However NYFTE have adopted, modified it and have performed it for the last two years, but they've dropped it from this year's repertoire!

For Bob

Now and then we get visitors at our practices.  Probably the most frequent visitors are members of New Forest Medlars.  Its probably more due to the fact that one of them has a sister in the side and the other a daughter (both the same person - amazing!). On one of their visits they taught us one of the Medlars' dances 'Not for Bob'. We've now adapted it and after trying a few different names such as 3/11¾ or 19p and then Not not for Bob decided that we couldn't have a double negative and settled on For Bob

Girton Molly Dance

 A somewhat cut down version of the dance. In the past we haven't performed it very often as we used to like it to be a dance for men and there aren't enough in the side at the moment. One time he did it (the dance) Mick broke his leg and most of the side aren't that keen on it. However we revived in at the end of 2001 when we needed some molly dances and most of the side seem to think that its an OK dance now.

The Green Man

Someone commissioned this dance for some event or other. He gave us an idea of a tune he had and the musicians came up with something (almost) playable. The dancers had a whale of a time putting the dance together and it was first performed at the Sweeps Festival at Rochester a few years ago to rapturous applause (I kid you not).

The event it was commissioned for never happened, we never got paid and we've found a real tune to dance it to. It’s a superb dance, but hardly gets performed these days as it needs 9 dancers plus a decent band and the chances of us getting either of those, let alone both of them is pretty remote.

Of course now we've got enough dancers we might revive it!  Or we might not

Hunt the Idiot

(aka Hunt the Umph!) Any one of seven (or five if were really pushed) could be what you're looking for

Lactodorum

 One of our own. For those of you who are not scholars of Latin or Roman history, its what the Romans called Towcester and is on the Watling Street which was at one time the boundary of the Danegeld and therefore a major battle ground between the Woad Wearing Ancient Brits led by Boudicca and the occupying Europeans. Boudicca is supposed to be buried somewhere in the area.

Much Binding

An amalgamation of two traddy dances that would be pretty boring just done by themselves. The first bit is Broomfield, the second Much Wenlock. The musicians used to hate it because they played John Peel about twenty times through, but then musicians hate everything and everyone don't they? Anyway, they now change tunes a couple of times if someone remembers to call)

Mollycoddling

A dance with sticks that is danced in a Mollyish way. It’s a dance for 8 that we haven't managed to cut down yet.

Old Redding

 Clever one this - the dancers have to control two sticks as well as their feet. Anyone who knows where Old Redding is will have a very good idea of why it's called that.

Otley

We put this dance together on a Sunday Morning in Otley when only a few of us had gone there for Persephone's weekend of dance and we were bored with doing the same 3 or 4 dances.  It has rules, rather than notation.  The rules are that it starts with 4 dancers, they agree what the first figure and chorus will be and as they dance them, they agree what's next.  If there's any spare dancers around you'll find people swapping in and out, often with non-Woadies (on one notably occasion in Wiltshire, we managed to get the set up to 6, not one of them a member of Woadworks, all of them were in the bar by then). The musicians play what they like (nothing new there then) provide it fits the dance (see we do constantly innovate).

Plough Molly

A new dance in 2003. It was devised by three members of the side at a Molly Workshop in 2002

Pump the Bilges

One of our own from a long time ago when two of our main musicians had  narrowboat.  The Tune of the same name was written by on of them.  Its one of our longest, but despite that one of our most popular dances

Salcey Forest

(aka Salcey )  Our sticks come from Salcey Forest these days. This is dance for 8 that we often perform with only 4.

Three jolly sheepskins

OK, so you think it should be Six Jolly Sheepskins.  Some of our side are veggies so we've reduced the number of sheep that have to have their skins removed just so we can dance.

Stamford-in-the-Vale

(aka Stamford)  One of the dancers wrote this dance. It's called Stamford-in- the-Vale for a similar reason to why Old Redding's called Old Redding.  Its another dance for 8.  We usually dance it with 6 people and have been known to go as low as 4.

Toast

The second new dance of 2001.  It's yet another derivative of Lactodorum, this time with only 4 dancers.  I'll leave you to work out why its called Toast

Toronto

The side came up with this dance one week when the Foreman was away and they decided that they wanted a new dance for the trip to Canada

Towcester

New  in 2001, it is actually a molly version of Lactodorum.  Scholars amongst you will appreciate the humour in an new version of Lactodorum being called Towcester.

Upton on Six

(aka Upton) It got six dancers in it so we couldn't possibly call it Upton on Severn. Everyone's got their own version of this dance as well, but they don't dance it as well as we do.

White Ladies Aston

(aka White Ladies ) The traditional dance, only we dance it better than anyone else. As the connoisseur will know, it is a dance for 8. We usually dance it with 6 and have been known to do it with 4!

Wrekin Havoc

I can't remember where we picked this one up from. It's a good dance and loads of other sides do a lesser version of it.  I have heard tell its a traddie dance.