Welcome: This site provides access to our Sequence Dance Script Library, plus other resources for sequence dancers. The library currently contains around 1800 scripts, covering the very best and most popular dances, and is now the world’s largest online archive of sequence dance scripts.
The Script Library: The library extends to both Classical Sequence (or Old Time) and Modern & Latin Sequence. Scripts are currently available for all official UK prizewinning dances from 1980 to 1999, most of the prizewinners from the seventies and late sixties, plus a selection of non-prizewwinners and unofficial dances, some never previously released. In addition, the library covers all of the popular sequence dances enjoyed by social dancers across the world, including some very old dances, plus most dances of interest to current medallists and competitors. The library is being regularly updated, with more dances from the late sixties and seventies, selected from the list on our Future Page. The updates are posted initially to our Latest Page, and some of these are available free-to-view from The Blog. The best sequence dances are, in our view, those originating in the late sixties, seventies, and eighties, and our aim is to build up a comprehensive archive from these golden years. It is worth checking our Dance List Pages regularly. Plus, there is a search facility on the right of this Page. If you have any requests, please contact us and we will accelerate their publication where possible (we have most scripts for the last 60 years).
To help you find the best dances, commentaries are included (either here or on The Blog), plus the lists include my own personal rating – a star system is used.
The Scripts: Scripts are provided as pdf files which can be readily downloaded, saved to disc, viewed off-line and printed. Our scripts are based on the original scripts written by the arrangers, and according to standard scripting conventions as adopted by the major UK teaching associations. Some sample scripts are available to view on our Samples Page. An information sheet offering general guidance on reading scripts is available here. For a list of abbreviations used in the scripts, click here. To go direct to the Script Library Pages, click here.
The Blog: We have a Blog running in parallel with this site containing numerous interesting items and useful supplementary materials, in particular our Technical Tid Bit articles focussing on the technicalities of reading and interpreting the scripts. The Blog can also be used as a discussion portal and now incorporates a simple guest-book style forum. Access to the Blog is free. To visit, click here. We also have a Facebook Page – click here.
Access to Scripts: Access to the Script Library is offered via a subscription. To find out how to subscribe, click here.
We hope you find these resources useful, and that they will help ensure Sequence Dancing has a healthy future.
Note: we recommend that to view these pages you set your internet browser to Compatibility Mode with a Medium Type Size setting, although the larger Type Sizes available with most browsers can be used if required. A pdf reader is required to access the scripts – click here for a free download if you don’t already have one.
