Set In Line
The Set in line term is used when two or more dancers are side by side, all Facing the same way and Taking hands while performing the prescribed or implied Setting step. The dancers will almost always be Facing another line of dancers who also Take hands and perform the Setting step.When the line is Across The set, the dancers straddle the Centre line, Facing Up or Down.
When the line is on the Side, the dancers are in the Side lines, Facing Across The set.
The Strathspey setting step involves substantial movement to the right. When another dancer is Standing to the right of the dancer who is Setting (as, for example, in 1st Place on the Ladies' Side of a Longwise set with the dancer in 2nd Place), there is a risk of collision, especially in a crowded ballroom; the line of the Setting step should be modified slightly so that the Setting dancer passes just in front of the Standing dancer on bar 1 and returns to the Starting Position on bar 2.
This problem could also arise with the Highland schottische setting step but never with Pas-de-basque, of course, because there should be no sideways movement in this Figure.
Here are examples of those Scottish Country Dances for which we have instructions on this site and in which the term, Set in line, either appears explicitly or is implied; note that for a common term these will be a small selection; for a rare term, these may be all that exist:
Arbeadie
Brodie Castle
Craigmin Brig
Eden Court
Forres Fancy
Lord Huntly's Cave
Ptarmigan Reel
Rose Of Glamis
Links To Pages Related To 'Setting'
FiguresBalance (In Line)
Crown Triangles
Double Hello-Goodbye Setting
Double Triangles
Hello-Goodbye Poussette
Hello-Goodbye Setting
Inverted Double Triangles
Set
Set Advancing
Set Advancing And Retire
Set In Line
Set On The Side (Line)s
Set To First Corners
Set To Second Corners
Set Twice
Set Up And Down
Turn On The Spot