A Climb Up Dufton Pike
Scottish Country Dance Instruction
A Climb Up Dufton Pike (8x32J) 32 bar jig for three couples in a four couple longwise set, Murrough Landon, 2024.1-2 1st couple set while 2nd couple cross over giving right hands and face out.
3-6 1st and 2nd couples dance half a double figure of eight. 1st couple start by crossing down as 2nd couple cast up. End with 1st couple on opposite sides facing in and 2nd couple in their original place facing out.
7-8 1st and 2nd couples half turn with the easiest hand, right on the men's side and left on the women's side, to end with 1st couple back to back in the centre facing opposite sides. 1st and 2nd couples may prefer to retain hands.
9-12 All set as in double triangles.
Then the corners all dance round to the next corner position clockwise while 1st couple dance just under half way round each other by the left shoulder to end facing their 3rd corner position.
13-16 1st couple dance corners pass and twirl with those now in the 3rd corner positions (3rd man and 2nd woman). The corners half turn right hand, face each other, then cast away to the opposite corner while 1st couple loop right shoulder round the corner position and dance in to end back to back in the centre facing out to their own side.
17-24 All repeat bars 9-16 from new places. This time 2nd man and 3rd woman dance corners pass and twirl, again on the 1st diagonal, while 1st couple loop round their 1st corner position and end by crossing to 2nd place own side.
25-28 All circle six hands round to the left and back. The final order is 2,1,3.
(Dance crib compiled by the deviser, Murrough Landon, CC BY-SA January 2024)
Dance Notes
Workaround for a 3 couple set.On bars 1-2: 1st couple set while 2nd couple step down to 3rd place while 3rd couple cross up giving left hands and face out to continue bars 3-32 as 2nd couple above.
(Dance notes by the deviser, Murrough Landon)
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Recommended Music: Black Bear Jig (Emma Nixon).Suitable recording: Viva La Paz (Black Bear Duo: The Dancing Bear).
(Dance information by the deviser, Murrough Landon, CC BY-SA 2024)
Dufton Pike is a hill located in the northern Pennines in Cumbria, England.
Classified as a Marilyn, it boasts a topographic prominence of at least 150 meters.
The hill overlooks the village of Dufton, with Dufton Fell situated between the pike and Cow Green Reservoir.
Marilyns are peaks with a prominence of 150 meters (492 feet) or more, irrespective of height or other features like topographic isolation. They can be either mountains over 600 meters (2,000 feet) or smaller hills. As of July 2023, there were 2,010 recorded Marilyns.
The South Face Of Dufton Pike, Seen When Approaching From Dufton Village
Published in A Climb Up Dufton Pike, reproduced here with the kind permission of the deviser, Murrough Landon, CC BY-SA.
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Text from this original Dufton Pike article on Wikipedia.
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