Bambooselum

Scottish Country Dance Instruction

1- 2 First couple cross giving right hands.
3- 4 First couple set.
5- 8 First and second couples Splat*:
5- 6 first and second couples turn with the right hand half way, the ladies turning under their raised right arms as if about to assume an allemande hold, with first couple facing the top back to back with second couple who face the foot;
7- 8 all continue turning to their right and joining right hands dance right hands across in a wheel half way finishing on the sides of the set; first couple still on opposite sides facing down.
9-16 Reels of three on the sides of the set, to start first man and third lady pass by the left shoulder and first lady and third man pass by the left shoulder; first couple finish back to back facing their first corners.
17-24 Hello-Goodbye setting; on bars 23 & 24, first couple set to partner up and down the set, moving into second place on own sides of the set.
25-32 First, second and third couples dance six hands round to the left in a circle and back to the right.

Repeat from second place.

(Dance crib reproduced from The Whetherly Book Of Scottish Country Dances, revised and republished by Alison Mitchell)

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