A Highland Welcome

Scottish Country Dance Instruction

A HIGHLAND WELCOME (R32) Round the Room Dance 2 facing 2 B Forbes Craigievar Bk 1

1- 8 Both couples circle to left and back again
9-16 Both couples dance RH across and LH back to places
17-24 All turn opposite partner LH and face own partner, turn partner RH and end facing other couple
25-32 All Adv+Ret, all couples advance (couples facing clockwise round the room make arches) and pass to meet new couple

(MINICRIB, Dance crib compiled by Charles Upton. Deeside Caledonian Society.)

A Highland Welcome
B Forbes   Craigievar Book 1
Reel   # x 32 bars   2 Couple Repeat   2 Couple Set   Progressive
1s face 2s around the room, 1s going clockwise, 2s anticlockwise.

1-8      All 4 hands round and back;
9-16    all 4 hands across and back;
17-20  1M2L 1L2M turn by the left, finishing facing partners;
21-24  1s 2s turn by the right;
25-28  1s 2s advance and retire;
29-32  1s 2s advance, 1s pass under the arch made by 2s and continue to meet the next couple.

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

Dance Notes

29-32  Original instructions have 1s making the arches but we retain the local mnemonic of "anticlockwise arches".

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