The Happy Meeting
Scottish Country Dance Instruction
THE HAPPY MEETING (J8x32) 2C (4C set) RSCDS Book 291- 8 1M+2L cross passing RSh, dance LSh round partner, pass RSh up/down and dance RSh round standing Man/Lady (1M round 2M, 2L round 1L)
9-16 1L+2M cross passing LSh, dance RSh round partner, pass LSh up/down and dance LSh round standing Man/Lady (2M round 1M, 1L round 2L)
17-24 1s dance 4 slip step down middle, set to each other, slip step up to top and cast to 2nd place
25-32 2s+1s advance and retire clapping on bar 28 and turn partners RH
(MINICRIB. Dance crib compiled by Charles Upton, Deeside Caledonian Society, and his successors)
Keith Rose's Crib Diagrams
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The Happy Meeting is a Scottish Country Dance of uncertain origin. It may be derived from Playford's dance of the same name from 1696. It was interpreted by the RSCDS in Book 29, 1979.(Dance information copyright, reproduced here with the kind permission of George Williams)
"The Greeting" Walter Langley (1852-1922), Oil On Canvas, c. 1904
Image copyright Walter Langley [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.
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