Here are some of the dances that we dance. If the title of the dance is highlighted, clicking on it will take you to a picture of us dancing it.

Barrington Row
Named after tha quaint little street on Calbourne, that is also known as Winkle Street. So called because we dance all in a quaint little row, and are as pretty as postcard while doing so. Honest!

Calbourne
Tune: The rakes of Mallow
This is a dance written by one of our members a few years ago. It is named after a local watermill, because the dance is based around various interlocking circles, just like in a mill. We are supposed to raise our knees very very high, but we don't always manage it. Then the Foreman tells us off.

Dorset Four Hand Reel

Five Penny Garland
Tune: Thomas Morris

Green Willow
Tune: The Sailor's Hornpipe
Or, rather, this is its tune for now. We used to dance this to one tune, changed it to another... and then, when trying to revive the dance after a few years of not dancing it, we couldn't agree on which tune we preferred, so started doing it to a third. That's the folk tradition for you.

Gunville Gallop
Tune: I'll tell my ma
This is a cumulative dance, that starts with one couple, and gradually adds pairs of Oyster Girls, until we get bored and start disappearing two by two, until only one couple remain. It is named after the place we used to practice in - Gunville, on the edge of Newport. When we are energetic, it is truly a gallop. Otherwise, it is a plod.

Merstone
Tune: Athol Highlanders
A dance with a lot of twirling, named after a place on the island, for reasons no-one can quite work out.

Not for Joe
Our "joiny-in" dance, in which we grab hapless members of the audience (or "humans" as they are sometimes called.)

Osborne
Tune: Spanish Lady
This dance is named after one of our local claims to fame - Osborne House. Queen Victoria lived at Osborne for many years, and the dance is so named because we start off by bowing most respectfully to the Queen, or, failing that, to the audience.

Peover Stick
A genuine north-west dance!

St Catherine's
Tunes: Bobby Shaftoe, and Drunken Sailor
A dance written by a current Oyster Girl. This one was inspired by St Catherine's Lighthouse, near Niton on the Isle of Wight. Audiences are told that it is so called because we "flash." They seem most disappointed when all we do is flick our hankies around.

Upton upon Severn
This is the Upton-upon-Severn hankie dance, which was "borrowed" from the Men, but has evolved by oral tradition somewhere along the way. Whenever we see the Men performing it, we loudly claim that they are doing it wrong.