Happy Birthday, Kennocha!

Scottish Country Dance Instruction

1 - 8 2nd person, starting right shoulder, dances around 1st person's position, finishing facing down, while 1st and 3rd persons, giving right hands, turn once round; then 2nd person, starting left shoulder, dances around 3rd person's position while 1st and 3rd persons, giving left hands, turn once round, all finishing in original places.
The whole pattern for 2nd person is a figure of eight on the line, whereas each half phrase is a kind of pass and turn (for one person instead of one couple).
9 - 16 1st, 2nd and 3rd persons dance a reel of three on the line, 1st and 2nd persons passing right shoulder to begin and all finishing in original places.
The pattern for the 2nd person is exactly the same as in the preceding phrase. At the beginning of the reel, there is the same strong change of direction for the 1st person as between the right hand turn and the left hand turn bars 4-5.
17 - 20 1st and 2nd persons, giving right hands, turn one and a half times to change places, 1st person finishes facing down.
21 - 24 1st and 3rd persons, giving left hands, turn one and a half times to change places, and at the end of bar 24, all finish facing the usual women's side (order 231).
25 - 32 All, joining hands, slip down for 3 bars, turn around pulling back right shoulder to face the usual men's side (1 bar), then slip back for 3 bars and turn around to finish ready to start again in new places (top person facing down, two others facing up).

Repeat from these new places.

(Dance crib compiled by the deviser Anne Dejean)

Keith Rose's Crib Diagram

Happy Birthday, Kennocha! - Full Size And Key To Symbols

Dance Information

She was disappointed that I was not going to be with her in the morning of the very day of her ninth birthday since I was going to be teaching in Méaudre SCD May week-end while she was busy somewhere else.

So I decided to write a dance that we could dance with my husband and her to celebrate together in the evening.

(Dance information from The Stay At Home Book, published 2020, reproduced here with the kind permission of the deviser, Anne Dejean)

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