Here's Tae Us! (Derrick)
Scottish Country Dance Instruction
Here's Tae Us! (Derrick) (S4x32) 4C set Lewis N Derrick 20231-4 The 1st and 2nd couples and 3rd and 4th couples dance four hands round to the left to end with 1st and 3rd couples facing down and 2nd and 4th couples facing up with nearer hands joined
5-6 The 1st and 2nd couples and 3rd and 4th couples set, on the second step the 1st and 3rd couples turn towards each other to face up
7-8 The 1st and 3rd couples cast off one place while the 2nd and 4th couples, taking nearer hands, dance up one place to end 2143 on own sidelines
9-16 The 1st and 4th couples repeat bars 1-8 to end 2413 on own sidelines
17-24 The 2nd and 4th couples and the 1st and 3rd couples dance double figures of eight across, to begin the 2nd and 1st couples cross down while the 4th and 3rd couples dance out and up, all end on sidelines where they began figure
25-32 Flowing into mirror image reels of four on own sidelines, to begin the 2nd and 4th and 1st and 3rd women pass left shoulders while the 2nd and 4th and 1st and 3rd men pass right shoulders, ending 2413
Repeat three times from new positions each time
(Dance crib compiled by the deviser, Lewis N Derrick 2024)
Dance Notes
25-32 Partners should give nearer hands briefly whenever possible in the reels.(Dance notes by the deviser, Lewis N Derrick)
Dance Information
This was devised by Lewis Derrick to commemorate the hundredth anniversary of the RSCDS in 2023.Suggested tune: Willie Shaw.
Devised 2023, first published electronically 2024.
Copyright © 2023, 2024 Lewis N. Derrick.
(Dance information from The McGhie Scottish Country Dance Sheets #62, reproduced here with the kind permission of the deviser, Lewis N Derrick)
Published in The McGhie Scottish Country Dance Sheets, Collection 7, reproduced here with the kind permission of the deviser, Lewis N Derrick.
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