The Blythest Lilt
Scottish Country Dance Instruction
The Blythest LiltMaggie and Duncan Keppie Haliburton School Of Arts SCD Book 6:
3x32 bar Strathspey
3-couple dance in triangular set (start with men back-to-back in centre facing partner)
1-4 ½ TURN AND ¾ WHEEL/CHASE: all turn partner halfway with right hand, then women dance ⅔ left hands across AS men dance clockwise one place round the periphery of the set;
5-8 ½ TURN AND ¾ WHEEL/CHASE: all turn partner halfway with right hand, then men dance ⅔ left hands across AS women dance clockwise one place round the periphery of the nearer set (end facing anticlockwise hands joined with partner);
9-12 SET AND LINK with partner ending with men on the outside facing clockwise;
13-16 TEAPOTS OR CHASE: women dance left hands across 1+⅔ round AS men dance two places clockwise around the periphery of the set (end facing anticlockwise hands joined with partner);
17-20 SET AND LINK with partner ending with women on the outside facing clockwise;
21-24 TEAPOTS OR CHASE: men dance left hands across 1+⅔ round AS women dance two places clockwise around the periphery of the set;
25-32 TURN AND ALLEMANDE: turn partner once round with right hands (2 bars), and allemande 1⅓ times around the set to end one place to the right of original places.
Repeat twice.
(Dance crib compiled by the devisers, Maggie and Duncan Keppie)
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