Scottish Country Dancing Dictionary

Corner Meeting

Scottish Country Dance Instruction

Corner Meeting 8x32 bar Jig for 3 Couples Rod Downey They Stole My Wife From Me last Night Collection
A three couple, 32 bar jig.

1-8 First couple cast off behind their own lines and then cast back to finish in second place on own sides. Second couple step up on bars three and four.
9-12 First couple sets twice to first corners.
13-16 First couple turn their first corners with right hands.
17-24 First couple repeats bars 9 to 16 with second corners, again using right hands.
25-32 Six hands round and back.

Repeat having passed a couple.

(Dance crib compiled by the deviser Rod Downey, Johnsonville SCD Club Tutor)


Dance Information

This jig, Corner Meeting, was devised in March 2007 as a teaching dance for corners, the first time that they are introduced.

Recommended music is "Gloria's Wee Jig" by Bob McMurtry played ABBA, and a suitable recording is to be found on "The Devil's Quandary" track 5.

(Dance information from They Stole My Wife From Me Last Night Collection Of Scottish Country Dances, reproduced here with the kind permission of the deviser, Rod Downey)


Published in They Stole My Wife From Me Last Night Collection, reproduced here with the kind permission of the deviser, Rod Downey.
Published in https://homepages.ecs.vuw.ac.nz/~downey/dances/unnamed.pdf

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