Barry's Dancers

Scottish Country Dance Instruction

1- 4 All set to partners and turn with right hand.
5- 8 All set to corners and turn with left hand.
9-16 All dance interlocking reels of four
17-32 All dance Schiehallion reels.
33-40 All dance rights and lefts. To begin all change places right hand up and down the set, first and third couples change places with long steps, second and fourth use short steps to change places with partners on the side. All then change left hand across, first and third with short steps to change with partners, second and fourth with long steps right across. Then repeat those four bars back to place.
41-44 All set and cast a quarter of the way round the set clockwise.
45-48 All circle half way round the set to the left.

Finish in 4,1,2,3 order, facing partners ready to repeat in reel time, on bars 33-40 replace rights and lefts with a double men's chain.

(Dance crib compiled by the deviser, Eddy West 1991)

Dance Information

Suggested music: "The Nor'loch", David Cunningham, Highlander 3.

(Dance information by the deviser, Eddy West)

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