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Cocktails At Hogmanay

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Cocktails At Hogmanay 40 Bar Jig For 5 Dancers In A Square Set, Devised By Viktor Lehmann, 2019.
4 dancers in a square set, dancer #5 on #1s right hand side.

1-4 1, 3 and 5 dance right hands across, 1 finishing in own place, whilst 3 and 5 keep right hand staying in the center of the set, pulling right shoulder back to finish facing side couples (3 facing 2, 5 facing 4).
5-8 Half right shoulder reel of four; instead of just passing left shoulder at the end, 3 and 5 join left hands, keep hands and face 1.
9-12 1, 3 and 5 left hands across, 1 and 3 finishing in own places, 5 rather in the center of the set.
13-16 5 keep on dancing around 1 giving left shoulder, finishing on left hand side of 2 (being in 4th place).
17-32 Repeat the sequence reversed (changed hands and directions and with side couples in the lead): left hands across with left hand twirl, half left shoulder reel with right hand turn at the end, face 2 (in 4th place), right hands across, 5 dance around 2 (giving right shoulder) to finish right hand side of 3 (being in top place).
33-36 All slip step in a circle ¾ round to finish in places 1-4 in the following order: 4, 1, 2, 3/5 together.
37-40 5 cast to the left, behind 3 and 4 , finishing left hand side of 4 as new joint couple in first place. Progressed order is now 5/4, 1, 2, 3.

(Dance crib compiled by the deviser, Viktor Lehmann, under the CCA NoDerivatives 4.0 International License, December 20, 2019)


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Cocktails At Hogmanay - Scottish Country Dancing Instruction Video
I wrote this dance for a group of dancers who I celebrated New Year's Eve with. Person #5 is the straw to mix everything, on the last four bars this dancer adds the half orange to the glass.

Music Suggestion: Old Favourites and Odd Couples (Catherine Fraser and Duncan Smith)

(Dance information by the deviser, Viktor Lehmann, under the CCA NoDerivatives 4.0 International License, December 20, 2019)


Published in Cocktails At Hogmanay, reproduced here under this Creative Commons Attribution - NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

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