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Granville Market

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GRANVILLE MARKET (J8x32) 3C (4C set) Elinor M Vandegrift 2nd Graded Book SCDs

1- 8 1s+2s dance RH across and LH back
9-16 1s cross RH and cast 1 place. 1s dance ½ Fig of 8 round 2s and end facing 1st corners
17-24 1s turn corners RH and pass RSh to face 2nd corners, 1s turn 2nd corners RH and pass RSh to end 2nd place own sides
25-32 2S+1s+3s circle 6H round and back

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


Granville Market
Elinor M Vandegrift  RSCDS Graded Book 2
Jig 8 x 32 bars 3 Couple Repeat 4 Couple Set Longwise Set

  1-8   1s2s right hands across and back;

  9-12 1s cross by the right and cast;

13-16 1s cross up into half figures of 8 across, finishing facing first corners;

17-20 1s turn first corners by the right and pass by the right to finish facing second corners;

21-24 1s turn second corners by the right and pass by the right to finish in 2nd place;

25-32 2s1s3s 6 hands round to the left and back.

(MAXICRIB. Scottish country dancing instructions compiled by Reuben Freemantle)


Dance Notes

24-24 1s pull right shoulder back to finish facing in, in 2nd place, ready to flow into the hands round to the left.


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Dance Information

Granville Market is on Granville Island, a peninsula and shopping district in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

The peninsula was once an industrial manufacturing area, but today it is now a major tourist destination and working neighbourhood.

The Granville Island Public Market features a farmers market, day vendors, and artists offering a variety of local Vancouver culinary offerings. There are fifty permanent retailers in the market offering local products. In addition, there are over one-hundred Day vendors in stalls throughout the market selling a variety of Artisan cottage-industry foods and unique hand-made crafts on a rotating schedule.


The deviser of this dance, Elinor Vandegrift, is a very well-known member of RSCDS Seattle. As well as being a Scottish country dance teacher of long standing in the Seattle area, Elinor is an examiner of teacher candidates and, I rather suspect, travels extensively throughout North America in that role. I would also think that Elinor is very familiar with Interstate Highway 5 which runs north to the Canadian border, where it connects with B.C. Highway 99, taking her into Vancouver and crossing Granville Island in the process.

The Barry Pipes Canon 093- May, 2017.

(Dance information from set and link, RSCDS Toronto Newsletter - What's In A Name? The Barry Pipes Canon 2005-2018, reproduced here with kind permission. Copyright Barry Pipes. All rights reserved)

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