Highbury Jig

Scottish Country Dance Instruction

1-8 1st couple set, dance a sliding turn 1¼ times (4 bars) to finish facing 3rd and 4th men. Other couples take hands and step up on bars 3-4. 1st couple set.
9-12 Dance parallel diagonal half-reels of 3: 1st lady with 4th man and 3rd lady, 1st lady giving RS to 4th man; 1st man with 3rd man and 2nd lady, 1st man giving RS to 3rd man.
13-16 Dance parallel diagonal half-reels of 3: 1st lady with 4th lady and 2nd lady, 1st lady giving LS to 4th lady; 1st man with 4th man and 2nd man, 1st man giving LS to 4th man. (In effect, 1st couple dance a full reel across the dance, but the supporting dancers change.)
17-24 Repeat bars 9-16 with supporting couples in new positions.
25-32 While 2s, 3s and 4s dance the first 8 bars of rights and lefts for three couples as in Johnny's Welcome Hame, dancing couple dance out through the men's side, cast to 4th place (bars 25-28) and turn with the right hand once round (bars 29-32).

Repeat from new positions.

(Dance crib compiled by the deviser, Neville Pope, December 2006)

Dance Notes

(Dance notes by the deviser, Neville Pope)

Dance Information

Recommended music: Any good 4x32 Jig. However tunes played abba would be preferable, if you can find one.

Recommended Recording: Track 1 (Jigs) from Any good dance, any good tune by Bobby Brown: The Briars of Newbay - Paddy Whack - The Skillet - Father O' Carroll.

(Dance information copyright, reproduced here with the kind permission of the deviser, Neville Pope, 2010)

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