Braidley's House
Scottish Country Dance Instruction
Braidley's House A thirty-two bar Jig for four couples, in a circle round the room, devised by John W Mitchell, Published in Whetherly Book 4.First and third couples facing clockwise and second and fourth couples facing anticlockwise, first and second couples are on the outside of the circle with third and fourth couples inside, each man with his partner on his right.
1- 4 First man and second lady advance and retire, third lady and fourth man do the same. Meanwhile their partners dance right hands across in a wheel and finish facing out.
5- 8 First man, second lady, third lady and fourth man dance left hands across in a wheel. Meanwhile first lady, second man, third man and fourth lady cast into their partners original places and advance and retire. All finish in own partner’s original place.
9-16 First and second couples dance a ladies’ chain, third and fourth couples do the same.
17-24 All set twice to own partner, then turn partner with two hands using pas de basque step.
25-28 All pass own partner by the right shoulder to commence a half reel of four, finish with third and fourth couples on the outside and first and second couples on the inside of the circle, each man with his partner on his right.
29-32 All join hands and set, then change places with the person opposite giving right hand in passing. Finish with first and third couples still facing clockwise and second and fourth couples facing anticlockwise. Each line having its back to the line it has just passed.
Repeat as many times as desired.
(Dance crib reproduced from The Whetherly Book of Scottish Country Dances, revised and republished by Alison Mitchell)
Keith Rose's Crib Diagram
Published in The Whetherly Book Of Scottish Country Dances Number 4, by John W Mitchell, revised and republished by Alison Mitchell. Instructions reproduced under the Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Licence (CC BY-ND 4.0).
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