The Bleecker Reel
Scottish Country Dance Instruction
The Bleecker Reel (R3x40) 40 bar Reel for 3 Dancers in a Triangular Set, devised by Sue Trapp, 2016.1- 8 Top dancer (1) turns dancer 2 (1st corner) with right hand then dancer 3 (2nd corner) with left hand and finishes facing dancer 2
9-16 Reel of three, dancer 1 giving right shoulder to dancer 2 to begin
To finish, dancer 1 returns to top place
17-24 All set and petronella one place anticlockwise
Repeat to move one more place, dancer 2 now at the top
25-32 All dance right hands across and left hands back
33-40 All take hands and circle round to the left and back
(WEECRIB)
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Dance Notes
The dance numbering in this dance is unusual. Dancers are numbered anticlockwise around the set.Keith Rose's Crib Diagrams
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The Bleecker Reel is named after Bleecker Street, an east-west street in the New York City borough of Manhattan. It is most famous today as a Greenwich Village nightclub district.The street connects a neighborhood today popular for music venues and comedy, but which was once a major center for American bohemia.
The street is named after the family name of Anthony Lispenard Bleecker, a banker, the father of Anthony Bleecker, a 19th-century writer, through whose family farm the street ran.
View Along Bleecker Street In New York City, Looking West Towards The Corner With Sullivan Street, 2009
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