Brinkie Braes
Scottish Country Dance Instruction
Brinkie Braes A forty-eight bar Strathspey for four couples in a four couple longwise set, devised by John W Mitchell, Published in Whetherly Book 4.On the second chord third and fourth couples cross to the opposite side of the set.
1- 2 Second and third couples dance right hands across in a wheel half way.
3- 6 First and third couples dance left hands across in a wheel, second and fourth couples do the same.
7- 8 Third and second couples dance right hands across in a wheel half way.
9-16 First and second couples dance a Quern progression*, third and fourth couples do the same.
17-24 All four couples dance eight hands round in a circle to the left for four bars, and back to the right.
25-32 First and fourth couples dance a ladies’ chain; they finish facing up and down the set.
33-40 First and fourth couples set; dance half rights and lefts to change places, giving right hands on the side to start; then set, once again facing up and down on the sides.
41-48 All four couples dance a grand chain, one step to each hand.
Repeat with a new top couple.
(Dance crib reproduced from The Whetherly Book of Scottish Country Dances, revised and republished by Alison Mitchell)
Keith Rose's Crib Diagram
Dance Information
Recommended tune: Brinkie Braes.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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