The Swalwell dance is the most recent addition to Sallyport's rapper repertoire. It comes from the village of Swalwell, on the south bank of the Tyne, located directly opposite the West End of Newcastle and next to the Metrocentre.

The Swalwell dance we perform is as recorded in the notation published by Cecil Sharp in The Sword Dances of Northern England in 1910. It is thus one of the more conservative rapper dances and has an elegant simplicity which contrasts well with quicker and slicker dances such as Newbiggin.

The dance consists of four basic figures, each starting with One Turn Out (aka Single Guard), and ending with the tying of the Nut (a sword lock). The first figure simply includes One Turn Out and the Nut with no intervening figure, and the three following are called the Needle, Right-and-Left and the Rank.