SQUARE DANCES FOR FOUR COUPLES Music is 32 bars per Round, unless stated otherwise in brackets, e.g. (48) after the dance title, and is normally played 4 times through.
Links in green boxes are active and take you to dance instructions.
All non-green links are non-active and don't yet lead anywhere, but like the active links, have TOOL TIPS (hover anywhere in the box) giving such information about the dance as:-- Dance reference number (CW????).
- Formation, if not Square.
- Which couples, if any, are improper (-), e.g. (-1, -3).
- Progression: L/CW = couples progress Left/ClockWise (1/4, unless stated otherwise) ; R/ACW = couples progress Right/AntiClockWise (1/4, unless stated otherwise); Ch-ptnr = change-partner.
- Rhythm (if not a reel or jig).
- Number and title of the book containing this dance.
Links in yellow boxes indicate dances already published in a book, the reference number (see Home page) of which is shown in brackets [e.g. "(Bk16")] after the dance title.
Four-Couple Square Dances
1a. Titled, AND with links to instructions ACTIVE.
1b. Titled, BUT links to instructions NON-ACTIVE (so please don't waste time clicking on them).
- All Good Swings Come To An End
- American Polka Square
- Back To Those Good Old Heys
- The Barely Squarely Square
- The Bashful Bride
- The Bend In The Bellows
- The Bold Robber
- The Boys' Night-In
- By The Left
- The Broken Basket (40)
- Cable Ties (48)
- Caper Ye Gaily, Like A Capercaillie (Bk16)
- Captain Hook
- Cetacean Square
- Cober Hill Quadrille
- Convoy Quadrille
- The Corridor Of Power
- Cowgirls' Quadrille (40)
- Crossing The Line (skewed square)
- Crossthreads Quadrille
- Cross-Trail Hey
- Cubitt? Quadruplet! (Bk17)
- Curling At The Corners
- Dancing Home (3x64)
- Dawdling Dames
- Delayed……. Reactions
- Denise's Double Dilemma (Bk21)
- Directionally-Challenged
- The Disenchanted Plaice (40) (Bk21)
- Don't Forget You're Drawers, Ladies
- Dorset Four-Set (Bk9)
- Double Diamond (Bk5)
- Double-Through Square (Bk13)
- An Early Start
- Eight By Eight (Bk5)
- The Eight-Leaved Clover (Bk13)
- Equators And Meridians (64)
- Eruptions
- Eve's Eve (Bk6)
- Fair 'And Square (Bk20)
- Fairly Squarely
- The Faithful Lady
- Firm Foundations (Bk11)
- Flip-Or-Twist Square
- The Fourth Burn'tt Bridge
- Gathering The Hay
- Gating Sides
- Gee, Ma, It's A Polka!
- G. I. Jig (Bk6)
- Gipsy's Pig (Bk6)
- Goosing The Gander
- Grand Triangle (skewed square)
- The Grape Escape (Bk14)
- Grist To The Mill (Bk22)
- Gypsies Square It
- Hailsham Hop (Bk9)
- Half Left, Half Right
- Halfway Round The Heystack (Bk19)
- The Haybalers' Hey
- Heads Out, Sides In
- Ice-Dance Debut
- Inviting Prospects
- I Pray God, Riches Come To You (Bk3)
- Jolly Trolley Trios (Bk18)
- Jovial Julian
- Jumping The Queue (Bk19)
- Ladies' Excuse-Me
- The Lady With Adjustable Legs
- The Last Word (the ladies have it) (9x16)
- Leading Ladies
- Lead Me, Lady
- Lee Reel (Bk6)
- "L" For Leather (Bk3)
- The Long Drawers (64)
- The Lovers' Waltz
- Loyalty Spurned
- Mad Adam (Bk6)
- The Maelstrom Mixer
- Meet Me On Two Corners (Bk22)
- More Crossings-Out
- More Rain On Morland
- The Morris Hey Mix-Up
- Music Of The Spheres
- The Mutton-Minders (48) (Bk16)
- My Little Flower (Bk19)
- Ned, I Am A Maiden (skewed square) (Bk6)
- Nemo's Omen (skewed square) (Bk6)
- "Not Quite" Square (Bk10)
- Now We Are Eight! (40) (Bk1)
- Our Neighbours' Back Yard
- Never Even (Bk6)
- Over The Ocean (Bk14)
- Parson's Square Well (3x24)
- Pass The Port
- The Peep Show
- Penultimate Paws
- The Pick-Me-Up
- Pig's Gip (Bk6)
- Plucky Seven Square
- Ragged Rascal
- Red Sky At Night
- Resistance Is Futile
- A Right Tangle
- Roll-Top Square
- Rotavator (Bk6)
- Round Her Little Finger
- Sailors And Sirens
- Second Thoughts (Bk13)
- S'quential Square (Bk21)
- Sexes (Bk6)
- She Left Before He Entered
- Ship-Wreckers' Square (7x32)
- Small Is Beautiful
- Snake Loop Square
- Solos (48) (Bk6)
- The Southbore Swinger (48)
- Speed-Dating
- Squashing The Square
- Squeeze-'N'-Squash Square
- Stowmarket Square (40) (Bk9)
- Sunday School Square
- Sunder The Sea
- Surprise Surquare
- Take It Back And Get Another (Bk21)
- Take What You Can Get
- Taking Things Littorally
- T'rrific Triangle (Bk14)
- That's A Good Question! (Bk18)
- The Temptation
- The Third Burn'tt Bridge
- Three Birds In The Bush (40)
- Three-Eyed Ladies' Chain
- Three In The Bush
- Time To Turn In, Ladies
- Treble-Reel Square (skewed square) (2x64 plus 8x32)
- The Steam Train (Bk10)
- Turning By Fours
- Twenty Five Years For Crook (Bk11)
- The Two-Headed Toadstool
- Unattached Males (skewed square)
- Victoria Regina (Bk17)
- The Waltzer (Bk4)
- Warp And Weft (Bk15)
- Total=143
1c. Untitled, so links to instructions NON-ACTIVE (again, please don't waste time clicking on them).