The Fox Chase
Scottish Country Dance Instruction
The Fox Chase A thirty-two bar Reel for three couples in a longwise set. Devised by John W Mitchell, Published in Whetherly Book 16.1- 2 First and second couples cross giving right hand.
3- 4 First and second couples join hands on the sides and set.
5- 8 First and second couples dance half rights and lefts.
9-16 First couple lead down the middle and back, to finish in second place on own side facing out and up.
17-24 Reels of three on the sides of the set, first couple dancing out and up to commence.
25-32 Second, first and third couples dance six hands round to the left in a circle and back to the right.
Repeat from second place. Recommended tune: The Fox Chase
(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 16, 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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