Cavehill
Scottish Country Dance Instruction
Cavehill A thirty-two bar Jig for three couples in a longwise set. Devised by John W Mitchell, Published in Whetherly Book 10.1- 4 First couple cross giving right hand and cast off into second place, second couple step up on bars 3 & 4.
5- 8 Second and first couples dance half rights and lefts.
9-12 Second couple cross giving right hand and cast up into first place on own side, first couple step down on bars 11 & 12.
13-16 First and second couples dance half rights and lefts.
17-20 First and second couples set and dance right hands across in a wheel half way, first man faces out.
21-24 Second, first and third couples dance a half reel of three on own side, to commence first and third couples pass by the left shoulder.
25-32 Third, first and second couples dance the knot.
Repeat from second place. Recommended tune: Cavehill
(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 10, 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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