Cantie Auld Man
Scottish Country Dance Instruction
Cantie Auld Man A thirty-two bar Jig for two trios, devised by John W Mitchell, Published in Whetherly Book 4.Two Trios, each comprising a man and two ladies, in a circle round the room. First trio are facing clockwise, and second trio anticlockwise, the men in the centre of each line.
1- 8 The two trios dance six hands across in a right hand wheel for four bars and back with the left hand.
9-12 Each man turns the lady on his right with the left hand once round.
13-16 Each man turns the lady on his left with the right hand once round.
17-22 Each man passes the lady on his right by the left shoulder to start a reel of three with his partners.
23-24 Each man turns the lady on his right three quarters with the left hand to finish facing the opposite lady.
25-30 Each man passes the opposite lady (the other man's left hand partner) by the right shoulder to commence a reel of three with her and his own original right hand partner.
31-32 Each man finishes the reel by dancing out between the opposite ladies, thus first man finishes between second mans partners and vice versa. The men continue facing in the same direction, the ladies turning to face in the same direction as their new partner. Thus first men still face clockwise and second men anticlockwise.
Repeat with new partners as often 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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