Antony Heywood is a caller, choreographer and organiser. He's English but has lived in the Netherlands for more than half his life, where he has been heavily involved with the Dutch Folk Dance Society NVS. Antony started folk dancing while still a schoolboy in the early 1950s during the Square Dance craze. When he went up to Cambridge he joined the University country dance club, The Round, of which he was Chairman 1958/59, and the Cambridge Morris Men, of which he was Squire 1961/62. While in Cambridge he took part in the EFDSS Albert Hall festivals for the Cambridgeshire District of the Society. You can read more in Nicolas Broadbridge's citation for Antony's EFDSS Gold Badge.
For many years Antony has been building a database of English and American dances. This lists the instructions of 24,257 dances (though it is not intended that you can understand the dance from the list) together with information about the source, author, composer, formation and recordings. For instance you can search for all dances containing Double figure of 8 followed by Straight hey for 3, or all dances containing Diagonal R & L through and Balance the ring.
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Colin Hume is a caller, choreographer, composer — and, more to the point, computer programmer. He has reorganised Antony's database so that it runs as a purely on-line application, and is the person to contact if you get any error messages from the system.
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Dilip Sequeira is a dancer and caller in Seattle. Originally from London, he started folk dancing in Edinburgh in 1995, moved to the US in 2003, and has been calling since 2017. He is a recovering software engineer. He has now taken over responsibility of updating the database entries from Antony.
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