Dances
Details for "Peover"
(Peover)
Name Peover Style Northwest Tradition
(Pev) Peover New dance ? no Origin Morris team "from Peover" (Traditional) Size of set 24 Hands Sticks about 12” long with ribbons - held vertically at one end Tunes
Not For Joe Walter Bulwer Rose Tree Saddle The Pony Notation sources References Video Links Other Notes Collected by Maud Karpeles in 1930 in Knutsford from "a Peover Team". Peover is an area in Cheshire including Over Peover, Higher Peover and Lower Peover. Roy Dommett has posited that the dance was actually the Leyland Junior Dance as the notation bears many similarities with the Leyland dance. Leyland Morris Dancers were regular attendees at Knutsford Royal May Day.
Variations as Danced by Knots of May
Set size Hands Source Notes References Tunes
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Teams That Perform This Dance
Team Loc Vars.
Albion Fair
Sydney,Australia
(none)
Chesterfield Garland
Derbyshire,UK
set, hands, tunes
Clocs Canton
Wales,UK
(none)
Costa Blanca Morris Dancers
Costa Blanca,Spain
(none)
England's Glory
Gloucestershire,UK
(none)
Fiddlers Brook
Hertfordshire,UK
(none)
Knots of May
East Sussex,UK
(none)
Old Meg
Worcestershire,UK
(none)
Oyster Girls
Isle of Wight,UK
(none)
Plymouth Clog
Devon,UK
(none)
Pump House Clog
Hertfordshire,UK
(none)
Ramrugge Clog
Hertfordshire,UK
(none)
Details for "Peover"
(Peover)
| Name | Peover |
|---|---|
| Style | Northwest |
| Tradition | (Pev) Peover |
| New dance ? | no |
| Origin | Morris team "from Peover" (Traditional) |
| Size of set | 24 |
| Hands | Sticks about 12” long with ribbons - held vertically at one end |
| Tunes | Not For Joe |
| Walter Bulwer | |
| Rose Tree | |
| Saddle The Pony | |
| Notation sources | |
| References | |
| Video Links | |
| Other Notes | Collected by Maud Karpeles in 1930 in Knutsford from "a Peover Team". Peover is an area in Cheshire including Over Peover, Higher Peover and Lower Peover. Roy Dommett has posited that the dance was actually the Leyland Junior Dance as the notation bears many similarities with the Leyland dance. Leyland Morris Dancers were regular attendees at Knutsford Royal May Day. |
Variations as Danced by Knots of May
| Set size | |
| Hands | |
| Source | |
| Notes | |
| References | |
| Tunes |
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Teams That Perform This Dance
| Team | Loc | Vars. |
|---|---|---|
| Albion Fair | Sydney,Australia | (none) |
| Chesterfield Garland | Derbyshire,UK | set, hands, tunes |
| Clocs Canton | Wales,UK | (none) |
| Costa Blanca Morris Dancers | Costa Blanca,Spain | (none) |
| England's Glory | Gloucestershire,UK | (none) |
| Fiddlers Brook | Hertfordshire,UK | (none) |
| Knots of May | East Sussex,UK | (none) |
| Old Meg | Worcestershire,UK | (none) |
| Oyster Girls | Isle of Wight,UK | (none) |
| Plymouth Clog | Devon,UK | (none) |
| Pump House Clog | Hertfordshire,UK | (none) |
| Ramrugge Clog | Hertfordshire,UK | (none) |