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Mike O'Connor sent this (now updated) to the ECD List in April 2020 after much discussion on the topic.

Many of you who are callers have extensive and well organized files of dances, and you will have instructions and dots for all or most of these dances.  But others may not, and I thought that non-callers might be interested to see who has choreographed or reconstructed them.  So I have added a column giving that information, taking the names from the submissions, the Lambertville list of ECD videos that David Tilove has assembled, and Colin's website.  I decided that trying to distinguish between new compositions and reconstructions wasn't worth the effort, but this means that I may have identified a reconstructor whose version is not the same as the version that the person suggesting the dance preferred.  If this is you, you can change it.

Russell Owen, in Seattle, suggested that he would find it interesting to be able to look back and see who had suggested the different dances, so I have done what I could to add a column with the initials of those I could identify.  I thought it might provide a basis for future conversations among people who don't know each other, perhaps next summer at a dance camp. "Oh, you're the one who recommended XYZ!  I really loved learning that dance." It is not complete.  I don't know if many people will care, but if you do, again you can update this page.

Some people who proposed dances mentioned the books in which the dances were published.  I started trying to add this, but gave up.  I could do it for Fried's dances, but I don't have enough of Colin's, or Gary's, or other dance books to do this.  If someone wants to take this on, be my guest.

This is perhaps just an idle curiosity, but people here have been so creative lately that I expect that several will assemble one or more programs exclusively or primarily from the list.  Unlikely that this could happen much before fall, but maybe those who do will share their programs on this List afterwards and tell us of the reactions of your dancers.  With luck, maybe late November or early December would be a good target.

Index of Nominators

List of dances

Title	Author/Reconstructor	Book/website	Nominator	Links	Updated by
Beach Spring	Leslie Lassetter		TG
Bellamira	Charles Bolton		KK
Birds of a Feather	Friendly/Sackett		TG
Black and Grey	Kalia Kliban		CK
Blackheath	Mike Richardson		RO
Blew Breeches	John Young		CK		CH
Bob's Boomerang	Mike Richardson		RO
Braye's Maggot	Thomas Bray	Country Dances, 1699	CK		CH
California Farewell	Carol Ann Krug Graves		RO
Chamberlain Election	Matthew Welch		TG		CH
Christina	Naomi Alexander		CH
Crown the Year	Fried Herman		MO
Doctor Bending's Serpent	Sharon Green		JS
Dorset Four Hand Reel	Traditional English	CDM	AY		CH
Dunant House Waltz	Colin Hume		PD		CH
Fain I Would	John Playford		CH		CH
Flora and Phaon	Andrew Shaw	Elephants Stairs	KK		AS
From Aberdeen	Henry Playford		MO		CH
Frozen Fire	Fried Herman		RO
Goodman of Antwerp	Gary Roodman		TG
Hip Hip Hurray
How Great Is the Pleasure	Colin Hume		MA		CH
Huntingdon's Maggot	Bernard Bentley	Fallibroome	GK
Impertinence	Fried Herman		RC
Interruptions	Miriam Newman		RC
Jenny Pluck Pears	John Playford		AY & TG		CH
Jovial Beggars (longways)	Charles Bolton		KK
K & E	Pat Shaw		CK		CH
Kappy's Dual Porpoises	Bob Green
Kill Him with Kindness			CK
Kneeland Romp	Gary Roodman		LS
Koepoort Galliard	Pat Shaw		AY ??
Lady Williams' Delight	Rich Galloway		PD
Leslie's Valentine	Scott Higgs
Long Pond	Pat Shaw		CK		CH
Maggie's Waltz Square	Colin Hume		??		CH
Master Barton's Arrival	David Smukler		PD
McDonald's March	Andrew Shaw	Farnicle Huggy	JB
Measured Obsession	Fried Herman		MO
Miss Bedlington's Fancy	Pat Shaw	Pat Shaw Collection Book 2	JS
Miss de Jersey's Memorial	Pat Shaw		MM		CH
Miss Sparks's Maggot	Bernard Bentley	Fallibroome	CK
Movement Afoot	Alan Winston		JB
My Lord Byron's Maggot	Henry Playford		??		CH
Mylecharane	Fried Herman
Nervous Breakdown (1)	Charles Bolton
Nervous Breakdown (2)	Bernard Chalk
Norbury Park	Fried Herman		MO
Old Wife Behind the Fire	R.Jackson/G.Fogg		RO
Oliver's Maggot	Dawn Winskill	Cantii Collection	AY
Orange Nan	Andrew Shaw		MO
Oranges and Lemons	John Playford		MO		CH
Pall Mall	Andrew Shaw		RO
Parthenia	M.Heffler/W.Porter	Maggot Pie	CK
Patrick's Waltz	Philippe Callens		MO
Picking up/of Sticks	John Playford		CK		CH
Pins and Needles	Traditional English		CH		CH
Prince William	Walsh		GK
Queen Anne's Delight	Don Lennartson
Queen of Sheba	M.Heffler/W.Porter	Maggot Pie
Rosamond's Pond	Thomas Bray	Country Dances, 1699	PD		CH
Saint Margaret's Hill	Bernard Bentley	Fallibroome	CK
Saturday Triad	Fried Herman
Say I Do	Gary Roodman
Seabright	Naomi Alexander	Naomi's Tunes and Dances	JS		JS
Something Elsche	Ægle Hoekstra		JS
Songs of the Harpist	Fried Herman		GK & TG
Spring Garden	John Playford		TG		CH
St John's #4	Lovelace Manuscript/John Sweeney		JS
St. Giles' Gate	Norris W. Winstone		JS
Sun Assembly	Ken Sheffield	From Two Barns	CK		CH
Sussex Cottage	Chris Turner		KK
The Cream Pot	Fallibroome		GK		CH
The Devilish Delight of Dr. Dennard	Fried Herman		MO
The Dusty Miller	Neal		MO
The Eastbourne Rover	Kevin Prigmore		JS
The Engaging Engineer	Sharon Green		PD
The Flying Sorceress	Kalia Kliban		PD
The Happy Conclusion	Andrew Shaw	Elephants Stairs	JB		CH
The Human Race	Fried Herman		MO
The Lover's Luck	Thomas Bray	Country Dances, 1699	??		CH
The Magnificent Seven	Bob Archer		JS
The Merry Merry Milkmaids	John Playford		CH		CH
The Sierra	Alisa Dodson		TG
The Wood Duck	Fried Herman		MO
The Young Widow	John Griffiths 1788	Cracking Chestnuts	JS
The Zither Man	Colin Wallace	Cumbriana Jones and the Theatre of Doom	RO		RO
Valiant Captain			CK
Vigo	Andrew Shaw		JM
Wheels Within Wheels	Carmen Giunta		JS
White Wheat	Hazel Moir	colinhume.com	MM		CH
Yorkshire Square Eight	Traditional English		CH		CH

Total Nominators: 17   Total Dances: 92