Dawning Of The Day
Scottish Country Dance Instruction
Dawning Of The Day A thirty-two bar Reel for trios in a circle round the room, devised by John W Mitchell, Published in Whetherly Book 4.(Trios each comprising a man and two ladies, one on either side of the man)
1- 4 All advance and retire.
5- 8 Man sets to the lady on his right and turns her with both hands.
9-12 All advance and retire.
13-16 Man sets to the lady on his left and turns her with both hands.
17-24 Man passes his right hand partner by the left shoulder to dance a reel of three with his partners.
25-28 All advance for four steps and turn right about to face in the opposite direction. The man takes the right hand of the lady on his right in his right hand, and the left hand of the lady on his left in his left hand the ladies join their other hands behind his back.
29-32 All advance for two steps, the ladies release the hand joined behind the man's back and on the next step turn inwards, to face in the opposite direction, releasing the man's hands. The man continues to advance turning on the last step between the next two ladies round the circle, whilst the ladies on the last step advance in the opposite direction to meet the next man.
Repeat with new partners.
(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 4, 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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