Gay Gordons
Scottish Country Dance Instruction
GAY GORDONS (16 bar March) Round the Room dance couples facing anticlockwise
1- 8 All in Allemande hold walk forward 4 steps, all turn about and walk backwards (same direction) 4 steps
9-16 All Men set as Ladies dance under Mans right arm, all polka round the room
(MINICRIB, Dance crib compiled by Charles Upton. Deeside Caledonian Society.)
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Dance Information
The Gay Gordons is a popular dance at céilidhs and other kinds of informal and social dance. It is an "old-time" dance, of a type popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, in which every couple dances the same steps, usually in a circle around the room.
The name also alludes to a Scottish regiment, the Gordon Highlanders, a British Army infantry regiment from 1881 until 1994. The regiment took its name from the Clan Gordon and recruited principally from Aberdeen and the North-East of Scotland.
Usually danced to a 2/4 or 4/4 march like 'Scotland the Brave' or the tune 'The Gordon Highlanders' composed by James Scott Skinner in 1915 and dedicated to P.M. George S. MacLennan.
Cap Badge Of The Gordon Highlanders
Additional search terms; Ceilidh Dance.
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