Elegant Esther Gray
Scottish Country Dance Instruction
Elegant Esther Gray A forty bar Reel for three couples in a longwise set. Devised by John W Mitchell, Published in Whetherly Book 14.1- 8 First couple turn with the right hand and cast off (second couple step up); turn with the left hand one and a half times to finish facing first corners.
9-16 First couple dance Hello-Goodbye setting to finish back to back facing second corners.
17-24 First couple dance a complete reel of four with second corners, passing left shoulders to finish facing their first corners.
25-32 First couple dance a complete reel of four with their first corners to finish in second place on the opposite side facing out (if possible finish the reel passing left shoulder to get there).
33-40 First couple cast off (third couple do not step up), cross giving right hand; cast up into second place on own sides and set.
Repeat from second place. On the last eight bars, first couple cast off (third couple step up), dance a half figure of eight round third couple (crossing up to start) so as to finish at the foot and set. Recommended tune: Elegant Esther Gray
(Dance crib reproduced from The Whetherly Book Of Scottish Country Dances, revised and republished by Alison Mitchell)
Published in The Whetherly Book Of Scottish Country Dances Number 14, 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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