The Dimple
Scottish Country Dance Instruction
The Dimple (J3x48) 3C Triangular Set Alan Benson, 2023.1- 8 All set, advance and retire and set again.
9-12 1st couple crosses over between 2nd man and 3rd lady, split and cast left and right respectively behind 2nd and 3rd couples.
13-20 1st man dances reel of three with 2nd couple as 1st lady dances reel of three with 3rd couple.
21-24 1st couple meets in centre and turns right hand back to place.
25-32 Grand chain beginning with partner; two bars per person. All advance two positions to meet a new partner.
33-40 Triangular ladies' chain:
Ladies dance right hands across to second corners (i.e. man to the left) and turn them with left hand. Repeat right hands across to next man (i.e. own partner) and turn left hand.
40-48 All couples circle left and right. New couple is now in first position.
(Dance crib compiled by the deviser, Alan Benson, 2023)
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This dance was written for a Scottish dance weekend in Chorin, Brandenburg, Germany, on 17-19 November 2023.A triangular bottle of Dimple (Golden Selection Blended Scotch Whisky) can be placed in the centre of the dance.
Recommended music: Trip to Tobermory (8x24S).
(Dance information by the deviser, Alan Benson, 2024)
The dance title of this dance refers to the "Dimple" whisky made by Haig.
Haig Dimple is a more expensive blend with "a heavier malt influence of whiskies from Glenkinchie and Linkwood", labelled as 15 years old, in the dimpled, three-sided bottle.
Haig was bottled in a distinctive three-sided bottle with dimpled sides, starting in the 1890s. The bottle was registered as a trademark in the US in 1958 by Julius Lunsford. It and the bottle design for Coca-Cola (which was also registered by Lunsford) were the first two bottle designs to appear in the Principal Register of the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Dimple In Triangular Jar With Triangular Packaging
Published in The Dimple, reproduced here with the kind permission of the deviser, Alan Benson.
Dance information licensed under this Creative Commons Licence 3.0.
Text from this original Haig Whisky article on Wikipedia.
Image copyright Algont, Creative Commons Licence 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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