The book Cracking Chestnuts includes seventeen dances described in detail, as well as an appendix with twenty more dances.
Clicking on the name of a dance takes you to a page with both a video clip and dance directions that are synchronized to the video. Information provided below each video includes: where and when the video was created, caller, musicians, tune, and (sometimes) additional notes.
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The Dances
- British Sorrow
- Careless Sally
- Chorus Jig (3 versions)
- Christmas Hornpipe
- Dandies' Hornpipe
- Devil's Dream (2 versions)
- Genet's Recall
- Hull's Victory (4 versions)
- Jamie Allen
- Lamplighter's Hornpipe (2 versions)
- Money Musk (7 versions)
- Petronella (3 versions)
- Queen Victoria
- Rory O'More
- Sackett's Harbor (2 versions)
- The Tempest
- The Young Widow
Appendix: Twenty More Chestnuts
- Beaux of Oak Hill
- The Boston March
- Doubtful Shepherd
- Elegance and Simplicity
- Fisher's Hornpipe (2 versions)
- French Four
- Green Mountain Volunteers
- Lady of the Lake (2 versions)
- Lady of the Lake
- Haymaker's Jig (a variation of Lady of the Lake)
- Lady Walpole's Reel
- Market Lass
- Megunticook Reel
- Morning Star
- My Heart's Desire
- New Century Hornpipe (2 versions)
- Old Zip Coon
- Portland Fancy (2 versions)
- Soldier's Joy
- Speed the Plough
- Washington Quickstep
- Ways of the World