The Coronation
Scottish Country Dance Instruction
The Coronation A sixty-four bar Reel for four couples in a square set, devised by John W Mitchell, Published in Whetherly Book 5.1- 4 First and third couples join nearer hands with partner and advance and retire.
5- 8 First and third couples dance half rights and lefts to finish in two lines across the set between second and fourth couples.
9-12 First lady and third man dance right hands across in a wheel with second couple. Meanwhile first man and third lady dance right hands across in a wheel with fourth couple.
13-16 First and third couples dance left hands across in a wheel.
17-20 First and third couples dance half rights and lefts to finish back to back with partner, first man facing second lady, first lady facing fourth man, third man facing fourth lady and third lady facing second man.
21-24 All dance back to back with the person they are facing.
25-32 All dance reels of four across the set passing the person they are facing by the right shoulder to commence.
33-36 All turn the person they are facing one and a half times with the right hand to change places, at the same time turning out to finish back in a square set.
37-40 First man and third lady, in second place turn one and a half times with the left hand to change places.
Meanwhile, first lady and third man do the same in fourth place, as do second lady and fourth man in first place and second man and fourth lady in third place.
41-44 First and third couples dance a half a ladies' chain.
45-46 All change places with corner giving right hands in passing.
47-48 All change places on the sides giving left hands in passing.
49-52 Second and fourth couples dance a half a ladies' chain.
53-54 All change places with corner giving right hands in passing.
55-56 All change places with own partner giving left hands in passing to finish in progressed positions.
57-64 Eight hands round in a circle to the left and back to the right.
Repeat with new top couple, after the repeat all will be in opposite positions to which they started, the dance may be repeated two more times to finish in original places.
(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 5, 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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