Dance You Must Stir It and Stump It 3794
Also known as “Lewis Derrick's Hornpipe”.
Jig · 32 bars · 3 couples · Longwise - 4 (Progression: 213)
- Devised by
- Lewis N Derrick
- Intensity
- 800/822/888/888 = 53% (whole dance)
- Formations
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- Set to Corners and Partner (C-SCP)
- Double Triangles (DBLTRI)
- Rights and Lefts (R&L)
- Note: This list may be incomplete and/or incorrect.
- Steps
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- Pas-de-Basque, Skip-Change
- Note: This list may be incomplete and/or incorrect.
- Published in
- Recommended Music
- Extra Info
- Originally devised to please myself under the title ‘Lewis Derrick’s Hornpipe’ (these were figures that I liked dancing in the …
Originally devised to please myself under the title ‘Lewis Derrick’s Hornpipe’ (these were figures that I liked dancing in the 1970s). When it came to publication in the 1980s I was firmly told by my friends that it was exceedingly conceited to write a dance for yourself, so to silence the critics I changed the tempo and the title using W. S. Gilberts words from Ruddigore relating to the excessively self-effacing Robin Oakapple: ‘If you wish in this world to advance, your merits you’re bound to enhance, You Must Stir It and Stump It and blow your own trumpet or trust me you haven’t a chance’ – hah!
