Scottish Country Dancing Dictionary

A Driving Reel

Scottish Country Dance Instruction

A DRIVING REEL (R3x32) 3C Triangular Set Lizzie Wratten RSCDS Book 54

1- 8 All Ladies dance RH across, all Men dance LH across to finish facing partners
9-12 All Petronella turn to finish Ladies back to back in the centre facing partners, all set
13-16 All turn 1ΒΌ RH to finish in original places, Ladies facing out
17-24 All dance 8 bars Schiehallion reels to end 2 places anticlockwise
25-32 All dance 6H round and back. 312

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


Keith Rose's Crib Diagram


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Dance Information

Devised by Lizzie Wratten, from RSCDS Seattle Branch, published in RSCDS Book 54, Dance number 14.

Recommended tune: "Sweet Chin Music", composed by Luke Brady.


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