Colosseum
Scottish Country Dance Instruction
Colosseum A thirty-two bar Reel for two couples in a longwise set, devised by John W Mitchell, Published in Whetherly Book 4.1- 4 First lady and second man set and turn with the right hand.
5- 8 First man and second lady set and turn with the left hand. Meanwhile first lady and second man dance round just over half way in a clockwise circle to finish facing own partner in a line across the dance, first man and second lady back to back in the centre.
9-16 First and second couples dance a reel of four across the set. Finish with first couple on the men's side of the set and second couple on the ladies' side of the set with the ladies in first place. Second lady and first man omit left shoulder pass on bar 16 to dance out to the side lines.
17-18 All dance one place clockwise in a chase to original places.
19-22 All dance right hands across in a wheel.
23-24 First couple cast off into second place, second couple lead up to first place.
25-32 Second and first couples dance rights and lefts.
Repeat from second place.
(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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