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18! 18!

Scottish Country Dance Instruction

18! 18! (Coming Of Age) (R4x40) 4C set Children Macclesfield SCD Group

1- 8 1s cross RH and set, cross back RH and set while 2s dance Fig of 8 round 3s
9-16 2s cross RH and set, cross back RH and set while 3s dance Fig of 8 round 4s
17-24 1s lead down the middle and back to top
25-32 1s+2s dance RH across ½ way while 3s+4s dance ½ R&L, 2s+1s dance ½ R&L while 4s+3s dance RH across ½ way
33-40 1s cross RH and cast 1 place, 1s cross down and cast to 4th place while 2s+3s+4s face up and dance up 1 place on bars 39-40

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


Keith Rose's Crib Diagrams


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"Portrait Of An Eighteen Year Old Man" Albrecht Durer (1471-1528), c. 1503


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