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dances:headington:bacca-pipes-description

Style: Headington (Cotswold)
Tune: Bacca Pipes
Dancers: 1 or 2
Equipment: bagged hankies, crossed clay pipes
Stepping: Headington single-steps, cross-backs, foot-together-jump
Source: Cecil Sharp, The Morris Book, Lionel Bacon, A Handbook of Morris Dances
Setup: the pipes are set up as shown below. Dance positions are numbered 1-8, with the dancer's head facing in the direction of the >. Toe/heel taps occur in positions A-D. (The image is from The Morris Book, by Cecil Sharp.)
Bacca Pipes setup
Distinctive Figures:
Sequence:

dances/headington/bacca-pipes-description.txt · Last modified: 2008/02/21 13:03 by Jeff Bigler