DAVID Minor
Scottish Country Dance Instruction
DAVID Minor 40 bar reel for three couples in a longwise set, Murrough Landon, 20181- 4 1st couple set and cast off one place as 2nd couple step up.
5- 8 1st couple, giving left hands, turn to face their 1st corner while 2nd and 3rd couples set, pulling right shoulder back on the second setting step and dance on to the next corner position clockwise.
9-16 1st couple dance the "Linnell" figure on the 1st corner diagonal:
1-4: Half a diagonal reel of four, passing 1st corner right shoulder to start and ending
facing each other (optionally giving left hands on bar 4).
5-6: Continue turning three quarters left hand to face 2nd corner.
7-8: Half turn 2nd corner right hand.
1st couple end in their 2nd corner positions (on their left when they start the half reel). 2nd man and 3rd woman end in the centre facing 2nd corner positions.
17-24 2nd man and 3rd woman repeat bars 9-16 on the 2nd corner diagonal ending with 2nd woman and 3rd man in the centre facing their partners.
25-28 2nd and 3rd couples dance half a right shoulder reel of four on the 1st corner diagonal. 3rd man and 2nd woman end on the centre line.
29-32 3rd man with 3rd and 1st women at the top, also 2nd woman with 1st and 2nd men at the bottom, dance right hands across.
33-36 1st woman followed by 3rd woman and 3rd man chase down the women's side and across the set while 1st man followed by 2nd man and 2nd woman chase up the men's
side and across the set. All end taking hands in a circle with 2nd and 1st men in 1st place, 2nd woman and 3rd man in 2nd place and 1st and 3rd women in 3rd place.
37-40 All circle six hands three quarters to the left to end opposite partners in the order 3,1,2.
(Dance crib compiled by the deviser, Murrough Landon, CC BY-SA October 2018)
Dance Notes
Some additional, very useful dance notes may be found on the original crib. See link below.Keith Rose's Crib Diagram
Dance Instruction Videos
DAVID Minor - Scottish Country Dancing Instruction VideoDance Information
This is a reduced, three couple version of the dance, DAVID (David Admires Very Involved Dances), which is for a five couple longwise set.Recommended music: Suggested tune The Mathematicians by James Gray - though this is only available as 5x40; suitable recording (with other tunes): 3x40 Reels (Fraser And Smith: Old Favourites and Odd Couples).
(Dance information by the deviser, Murrough Landon, CC BY-SA October 2018)
Published in DAVID Minor, reproduced here with the kind permission of the deviser, Murrough Landon, CC BY-SA.
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