Tune: Valentine (traditional) Source: adapted from the Ascott-Under-Wychwood dance (traditional) Chorus #1: Each corner in turn: open side step right, open side step left, 2 shows. Corners pass on double steps, meet, galley right to place. Chorus #2: Same as chorus #1, but with galleys in place of shows. Chorus #3: Same as chorus #1, but with "beetle crusher" capers in place of shows. Chorus #4: Same as chorus #1, but with upright capers in place of shows. All up at the end. Figures: once to yourself, foot up & down, half gyp, back-to-back, rounds
Banbury Cross performs this dance with the set rotating 90° at the end of each chorus, an idea we shamelessly stole from Muddy River Morris.
Chorus #1: Each corner in turn: open side step right, open side step left, show (right hand), show (left hand), corners pass right shoulders and turn to face each other on 2 double steps. Galley right to corner's place. Chorus #2: same as chorus #1, but with two galley instead of the “shows”. Chorus #3: same as chorus #1, but with two "beetle crusher" capers to slow music instead of “show”. Chorus #4: same as chorus #1, but with two upright capers to slow music instead of “show”. All up at the end.
Hankie dances: stand in position, trying not to look stupid. Five beats before the end of the tune, bring the hankies up to chest-level and rise onto your toes. Then two hop backs and a foot-together-jump. Stick dances: stand in position, trying not to look stupid. Two beats before the end of the tune, do a foot-together-jump.
Face up. Two double steps in the “up” direction (one stationary, one in place). Galley (out from the center). Foot-together-jump to face down. Face down. Two double steps in the “down” direction (one stationary, one in place). Galley (out from the center). Foot-together-jump ¾ of the way around to face across.
Face across. Two double steps, one to cross to your partner's position (starting on the left foot1) and passing by the right shoulder) and one in place. Hop backs to return to place. Foot-together-jump. Face across. Two double steps, one to cross to your partner's position (starting on the right foot2) and passing by the left shoulder) and one in place. Hop backs to return to place. Foot-together-jump.
Face across. Two double steps: on the first one cross to your partner's position (starting on the left foot and passing by the right shoulder), and on the second one slide to your right. Hop backs to return to place, this time passing your partner by the left shoulder. Foot-together-jump. Face across. Two double steps: on the first one cross to your partner's position (starting on the right foot and passing by the left shoulder), and on the second one slide to your left. Hop backs to return to place, this time passing your partner by the right shoulder. Foot-together-jump.
On the catch-step (“and”) before the downbeat, hop into a circle and face clockwise. Middles will need to move outwards (“bulge”). One double step around the circle (clockwise). On the second double step spiral into a clump, ending halfway around the circle but closer to the center. Hop backs to your corner's place (halfway around the circle). Foot-together-jump. On the catch-step (“and”) before the downbeat, all dancers turn a little more than 180° over their left shoulders (“hard turn”) and go back the way they came (counter-clockwise). Again, on the second double step spiral into a clump, ending halfway around the circle but closer to the center. Hop backs to your original place. Foot-together-jump.
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