Dancing In The Dark

Scottish Country Dance Instruction

Dancing In The Dark (S4x32) 32 bar Strathspey for four couples, Eddy West, 1983.

1- 2 All set.
3- 4 Giving partner right hands first and third couples turn while second and fourth couples half turn.
5- 8 First and second couples and at the same time third and fourth couples dance right hands across to finish all near the centre of the dance, men close behind their partners.
9-16 All dance a "tandem" reel of four, each couple dancing as one. (finish on side lines, second and fourth couples all on opposite sides, all ladies facing out.)
17-24 First and second couples together and third and fourth couples together dance reels of four across the dance (men cross passing left shoulder, ladies cast, to begin).
25-26 First and second couples right hands across half way.
27-30 First and third couples set facing up and down the dance and change places giving left hands.
31-32 First and fourth couples right hands across half way.

Repeat from new positions.

(Dance crib compiled by the deviser, Eddy West 1983)

Dance Information

This dance was dedicated to the friends who joined me on a series of annual caving trips held on the weekend of the Te Awamutu Ball.

Suggested music: "The Crystal Quaich" Ian Muir "Third Kirkbrae Collection".

(Dance information by the deviser, Eddy West)

The Badami cave temples are considered an example of Indian rock-cut architecture, especially Badami Chalukya Architecture

Dancing In The Dark, Badami Cave Temple, Lord Shiva Incarnation Of Nataraja, Karnataka, India

Published in (https://eddywest.nz), Dancing In The Dark, The Awatiro Set, reproduced here with the kind permission of the deviser, Eddy West.
Image copyright (cropped) Nicolas Vollmer from Munich [Allemagne], licensed under the Creative Commons Creative Commons Licence 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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