Gillian's Dance
Scottish Country Dance Instruction
Gillian's Dance A Strathspey for 5 Couples in a pentagon-shaped Set, 70 Bars in 10 Bar Phrases, devised by Verena Ebling and Ulrike Köppler 2017.1-10 Half rights and lefts going to the right around the set: bars 1-8 the 1st and 4th couples dance half rights and lefts followed by 1st and 2nd couples dance half rights and lefts
while bars 3-10 the 5th and 3rd couples dance half rights and lefts followed by 5th and 4th couples dance half rights and lefts to finish in the order 51423
11-20 Reel of Five
11-14 half interlocking reel of 5, starting right shoulder to partner
15-16 turn next dancer (corner) by the right
17-20 half interlocking reel of 5 back, starting left shoulder finish with men facing in, women facing out 21-30 All dance 10 bars of Schiehallion reel to:
women are on left of temporary partner, all face (temporary) corner
31-34 Highland Schottische to (temporary) corner,
35-36 turn corner both hands, turn away over right shoulder to
37-40 Highland Schottische to (temporary) partner
41-50 All dance 10 bars of Schiehallion reel (women start dancing in and to the right) finish as at end of bar 10
51-60 Reel of Five, repeat bars 11-20
61-70 Half rights and lefts going to the left around the set: bars 1-8 the 5th and 4th couples dance half rights and lefts followed by 5th and 3rd couples dance half rights and lefts
while bars 3-10 the 1st and 2nd couples dance half rights and lefts followed by 1st and 4th couples dance half rights and lefts all finish in original places
(Dance crib compiled by the deviser, Verena Ebling and Ulrike Köppler, under the CCA NoDerivatives 4.0 International License, September 2017)
Dance Notes
The diagrams of the set shape shown in the .pdf (see link below) are very useful.Keith Rose's Crib Diagrams
Dance Information
This dance was deviser by Verena Ebling and Ulrike Köppler for Gillian Wheadon's 75th Birthday, September 2017.Music by Anselm Lingnau
(Dance information by the deviser, Verena Ebling and Ulrike Köppler, under the CCA NoDerivatives 4.0 International License, September 2017)
Published in Gillian's Dance, reproduced here under this Creative Commons Attribution - NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
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