Dusky Dolphins

Scottish Country Dance Instruction

1-2      1s2s 4s5s right hands across halfway, finishing 1L1M facing M's side, 5M5L facing Ls' side;
3-6      1s5s chase anticlockwise around 3s to exchange places;
7-8      2s5s 1s4s right hands across halfway, finishing 2M2L facing M's side, 4L4M facing Ls' side;
9-12    2s4s chase anticlockwise around 3s to exchange places, finishing 5s4s3s2s1s, all except 3s on opposite sides, 3M facing down, 3L up;
13-16  4s3s2s chase anticlockwise halfway, finishing 5s2s3s4s1s, 5s 3s 1s on opposite sides;
17-24  5s dance figures of 8 on the sides around 2nd and 3rd places WHILE 1s dance figures of 8 on the sides around 4th and 3rd places, all giving left shoulder to start;
25-26  5s 3s 1s cross by the right, finishing all on own sides;
27-28  3s cast up two places to 1st place WHILE 1s cast up to 4th place WHILE 5s2s 4s step down, finishing 3s5s2s1s4s;
29-32  all turn by the right.

(MAXICRIB, Scottish country dancing instructions compiled by Reuben Freemantle.)

Dance Information

The Dusky Dolphin is distributed all around New Zealand, in coastal waters of Chile, Argentina and the Malvinas Islands, Namibia and the west coast of South Africa. There may also reside in populations off Tasmania and New South Wales and several small islands in the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans.

An aerial survey off Patagonia in the mid-1990s indicated that there was a local population in excess of 7,000 individuals. Duskies can move over great distances, however it is not believed that they follow a migratory pattern.

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Dusky Dolphin

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Text from this original Dusky Dolphin article on Wikipedia.
Image Copyright Allen McCloud.
No MINICRIB available February 2010.

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