Scottish Country Dancing Dictionary

The Windswept Moors

Scottish Country Dance Instruction

THE WINDSWEPT MOORS (S3x32) 3C set Roy Goldring Many Happy Hours

1- 8 1L+3M passing LSh dance diagonal full reel of 4 with 1M+3L who dance into partner's place to dance ½ reel and cast to original places
9-16 1s+2s dance the Tournée:
 9-12 1s+2s dance into prom hold (Men with partner on right, 1s face Men's side and 2s face Ladies' side), both couples wheel anticlockwise ½ way and Men turn Ladies into middle
 13-16 Both couples turn 1½ times (2s RH, 1s LH) and 1s end facing 1st corners
17-24 1s dance 'Hello-Goodbye' setting ending in 2nd place own sides
25-32 2s+1s+3s dance reflection reels of 3 (1s out and down to start) ending with 1s+3s dancing an extra pass to change places. 231

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


Keith Rose's Crib Diagrams


Windswept Moors
Pennine Way, Marsden Moor


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