Jemmers' Dances

When Jemmers started in the 1970s, our research team worked hard to track down and notate dances from people who remembered performing them as young girls in the 1920s. Because they have not been widely published, many of our dances are done by us exclusively.

Our current repertoire consists of 12 dances:-

Mobberley, Goostrey, Reddish, Stockport Premier, Marston, and Knutsford Garland (an unusual soft garland dance) come from our own research and notation.

The dances we call Poynton Green and Worth Clough were expanded from fragments of dances from Crewe and Peover respectively.

We created Broken Cross and Poynton Jubilee ourselves, the latter to celebrate the Queens golden jubilee and our own silver one. It is based on figures from a dance from Fleetwood.

Middleton Junction and Knutsford were previously published dances, and the latter is widely performed by other teams. We make it unique by using the tune Fair Maids of Poynton, composed especially for us by the late Stan Gee.