BellCorEuse

Scottish Country Dance Instruction

BELLCOREUSE (J8x32) 3C (4C set) Kévin Piquemal The Walnut book 2

1- 8 1s+3s advance and retire diagonally while 2M casts up and 2L casts Down to ends (2M between 1s, 2L between 3s), all set and link for 3 to end (1)(2)(3)
9-16 All set and cross RH. 1s cross to 2nd place (2s step up on bars 13-14) to face each other right hands joined. 1s set pulling RSh back to face 1st corners
17-24 1s dance Corner pass and turn with 1st and 2nd corners, 1s cross to 2nd place own sides. 213
25-32 All dance 6H round and back

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

BellCorEuse J8x32 Kévin Piquemal
32-bar Jig for three couples in a four-couple longwise set.

1 - 8 1st and 3rd couples advance and retire diagonally while 2nd man casts up to end between 1st couple and 2nd women casts down to end between 3rd couple. All set and link for three to end in order 1-2-3 on opposite sides.
9 - 16 All set and cross right hand. 1st couple cross to second place as 2nd couple step up on bars 13-14 to end facing each other right hands joined. 1st couple set pulling right shoulder back to face first corners.
17 - 24 1st couple dance corners pass and turn with their first corners and then with second corners, 1st couple crossing back to second place own sides.
25 - 32 All dance six hands round and back.

Repeat, having passed a couple.

(Dance crib compiled by the deviser Kévin Piquemal, June 2018)

Dance Information

This dance name, BellCorEuse, came from Belledonne, Vercors and Chartreuse, the three mountains ranges (or Massifs) surrounding Grenoble, making the valley look like a Y (Le Y Grenoblois).

(Dance information with the kind permission of the deviser, Anne Dejean)

Published in The Walnut Book 2, reproduced here with the kind permission of Anne Dejean.

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