Scottish Country Dancing Dictionary

Going For A Spin

Scottish Country Dance Instruction

Going for a Spin
Maggie and Duncan Keppie Haliburton School Of Arts SCD Book 1: Tenth Anniversary Book
32 bar Jig
Couple facing couple around the room

  1-8   RIGHT HAND WHEEL AND WOMEN TURN: couples dance right hands across, then women turn each other with right hands once round;

  9-16 LEFT HAND WHEEL AND MEN TURN: couples dance left hands across, then men turn each other with left hands once round;

17-24 LADIES' CHAIN;

25-32 PROMENADE: couples promenade anticlockwise around each other 1½ times and end facing next couple around the circle.

Repeat.

(Dance crib compiled by the devisers, Maggie and Duncan Keppie)


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