Christmas At Bleecker
Scottish Country Dance Instruction
Christmas At Bleecker (S3x32) 32 bar Strathspey for 3 Dancers in a Triangular Set, devised by Sue Trapp, 2019.In this dance, dancers are numbered anticlockwise around the set.
1- 4 All advance, join nearer hands, raise them to form a Christmas tree, and retire
5- 8 All advance, pull right shoulder back to cast one place clockwise, and pivot once on the spot on the last bar, forming ornaments
Dancer 2 finishes at the top
9-16 All dance right hands across and left hands back, forming a star
Bottom dancers finish with nearer hands joined facing up, while the top dancer finishes facing down
17-20 All set
Bottom dancers form an arch, dance up, turn towards each other, and face down
Meanwhile top dancer dances down under the arch, turns about pulling right shoulder back, and faces up - representing Santa going down the chimney
21-24 All set
Top dancers form an arch, dance down, turn towards each other, and face up
Meanwhile bottom dancer dances up under the arch, turns about pulling right shoulder back, and faces down - representing Santa going up the chimney
25-32 All circle three hands round and back - representing reindeer flying around
(WEECRIB)
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Dance Notes
The dance numbering in this dance is unusual. Dancers are numbered anticlockwise around the set.Keith Rose's Crib Diagrams
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Christmas At Bleecker is named after Bleecker Street, an east-west street in the New York City borough of Manhattan. It is most famous today as a Greenwich Village nightclub district.The street connects a neighborhood today popular for music venues and comedy, but which was once a major center for American bohemia.
The street is named after the family name of Anthony Lispenard Bleecker, a banker, the father of Anthony Bleecker, a 19th-century writer, through whose family farm the street ran.
View Along Bleecker Street In New York City, Looking West Towards The Corner With Sullivan Street, 2009
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