Scottish Country Dancing Dictionary

Christie McLeod

Scottish Country Dance Instruction

Christie McLeod A thirty-two bar Reel for two couples in a circle round the room, devised by John W Mitchell, Published in Whetherly Book 4.

1- 8 First and second couples dance right hands across in a wheel and back with the left hands.
9-10 First man and second lady change places giving right hands, first lady and second man do the same.
11-12 All set.
13-16 First and second couples dance four hands round to the right.
17-24 First and second couples dance a ladies' chain.
25-32 First and second couples dance rights and lefts, on the last two bars the men dance the polite turn to finish facing a new couple.

Repeat with new couple.

(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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