Reverse Reel Of FourThe Reverse reel of four is a rare form, each dancer follows a path which is the reverse of the standard form, i.e., with an anticlockwise loop at each End and passing each other By the right at the midpoint. Although this Scottish Country Dance form can, in principle, exist as the reverse of any standard form as, for example, in bars 21-24 of Mrs Stewart of Fasnacloich, in which the Half diagonal reel of four is reversed, the Figure has distinctive merit only in Mirror reels of four. For example, here are some Scottish Country Dances in which the term, Reverse Reel Of Four, is used in either the Minicrib or the Maxicrib Dance instructions or both -
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