Figure Of Eight Across Halfway

The Figure Figure of eight across halfway is sometimes called 'half figure of eight across'.

This is a 4-bar combination of Cross up and Cast down or Cross down and Cast up, starting with either the Crossing or the Casting movement; it is exactly half of the full Figure. The Scottish Country Dancer Finishes opposite the Place in which s/he started.

For example, here are some Scottish Country Dances in which the term, Figure of eight across halfway, is used in either the Minicrib or the Maxicrib Dance instructions or both -
Back To The Fireside
Betty's Wedding
Copycat Prelude
Jig For Liz
Loch Doon Castle
Red Rose And White
Sapphire Wedding Anniversary Reel
Scott Meikle
Sultan's Signature
Susan
Twenty Four Seven
Whirling Dervishes
White Rabbit
Wolf's Return To Badenoch
Yan Tan Tethera


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