A selection of dances devised by club members or for club members or about activities relating to the club or members. Click the links to find out more about the dances and to download instructions.
S32: Rod Downey devised the 32 bar strathspey Aileen Logie on 6 October 2022 as a teaching dance as part of a sequence for the first 16 bars of Ian Simmonds’ The Five Row Reel.
S32: Devised by Rod Downey on 29 March 2014 as a teaching dance for grand chain.
R32: Devised by Rod Downey in March 2019 for an Irish-themed St Patrick’s night, The Coleraine Rant is a beginner’s dance for poussette and emphasising Pas de Basque.
S40: Devised by Rod Downey in honour of Désirée Patterson’s 70th birthday on Monday 14 August 2017.
S32: Devised by Rod Downey in February 2006 as a teaching dance to teach figures of eight.
J32: Devised by Rod Downey in March 2020 when he was inspired by the teddy bears in the windows during the COVID-19 lockdown while out cycling.
R32: Devised by Rod Downey on 26 April 2020 for John Markham, a longstanding member of Johnsonville Club.
S32: Devised by Rod Downey and danced at the Johnsonville 50 Golden Years Celebration on 20 August 2016
J32: Devised by Rod Downey on 3 April 2016, this dance is dedicated to Elizabeth Ngan, our club’s dedicated “kitchen faerie”.
J32: Devised by Rod Downey in 2002 for Yu Hayakawa (Club Treasurer 2001-2002) who loves to wear pink.
Ceilidh: This 96 bar ceilidh-style dance in a square set was devised by Rod Downey for the Johnsonville Club pre-midwinter Spring into Autumn evening on 5 May 2018.
J32: Devised by Rod Downey on 5 August 2016 for his wife Kristin, his bear, for her 60th birthday, especially in appreciation of her work in Johnsonville’s Golden Year.
R32: Devised by Rod Downey on 21 September 2018 as a simple teaching dance for corners pass and turn.
J32: Devised by Rod Downey on 4 March 2020 as a relatively simple fugal dance with the movement of Ladies of Dunse as a basis.
R32: Devised by John Homes and dedicated to his wife Aline Homes. Presented to her on the occasion of her birthday celebration 17 October 2004.
Ceilidh: A (simple) 16 bar waltz sequence suitable for beginning a ceilidh style night devised by Rod Downey for Johnsonville’s Spring Fling ceilidh on 28 November 2020.
S32: Devised by Rod Downey in May 2007 for Aline and John Homes, long time Johnsonville members and ‘stargazers’ on clear nights.
R48: Devised on 9 August 2017 by Rod Downey and dedicated to the Scottish Country Dancing group in Heidelberg, who Rod and Kristin danced with many times in 2017 and 2018.
S32: Devised by Rod Downey on 20 March 2022. Tairāwhiti Wedding commemorates Rod and Kristin’s younger son Alex marrying Lana Phillips in a wonderful wedding in February 2022 in Gisborne.
R48: Devised by Loralee Hyde and Maureen Robson during the Dunedin Summer School 1992/1993 on a trip on the train up the Taieri Gorge with a group of dancers.
R32: Devised by Rod Downey in January 2004 as a teaching dance for the beginners class at New Zealand Summer School. Rod had taught the class Sandy o’er the Lea and wanted a dance with a poussette and mirror reels.
