Scottish Country Dancing Dictionary

Dancing Butterflies

Scottish Country Dance Instruction

DANCING BUTTERFLIES (R8x32) 3C (4C set) Diane Bradshaw Lower Hutt SCD 60th Anniversary

1- 8 1s+2s dance RH across, LH back
9-16 1s dance (nearer hands joined) down the middle and back, finish back-to-back 2nd place facing own sides (2s step up 11-12)
17-24 1s dance Double Triangles and end facing down in middle on own sides (1M pulls back RSh)
25-32 1s (taking hands where possible) dance between 3s, cast up, dance up between 2s and cast off to 2nd place, own sides

(MINICRIB. Dance crib compiled by Charles Upton, Deeside Caledonian Society, and his successors)



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