C'Est L'Amour

Scottish Country Dance Instruction

C'EST L'AMOUR (The Flirt) (J8x32) 3C (4C set) RSCDS Book 34

1- 8 1L casts 1 place and sets, casts to 3rd place and sets
9-16 1s cast up/down to 2nd place and set, 1L casts up into middle facing down while 1M casts down 1 place into middle facing up and both set
17-24 1s circle 3H round and back (Lady with 2s and Man with 3s) ending facing 2s/3s (2s facing up and 3s down)
25-32 1s+2s+3s set, 1s dance under arches made by 2s/3s to 2nd place own sides and 2s+1s+3s turn RH

(MINICRIB. Dance crib compiled by Charles Upton, Deeside Caledonian Society, and his successors)

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Dance Information

"C'est l'Amour" is French for "This Is Love".

C'est L'Amour is a Scottish Country Dance published by the Lowes (Ballroom Conductor And Assembly Guide) in about 1830/31. It was interpreted by the RSCDS in Book 34, 1986.

The Lowes wrote:

The first Lady makes a chassé round, and sets between the second and third Ladies; she does the same again, and sets betwixt the third and fourth Ladies; she repeats the same turning up behind the Ladies to her place; and when she commences dancing up, her partner dances down behind the Gentlemen with the same steps; the Gentleman finishes betwixt the third couple, and goes three hands round with them; whilst his partner does the same with the second, they pass through below the hands, and meet in the middle, and pousette with the second couple.

(Dance information copyright, reproduced here with the kind permission of George Williams)

C'Est L'Amour
"The Flirtation" Eugene De Blaas, (1843-1932), Oil On Canvas, Before 1931

Image copyright Eugene De Blaas [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

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