Scottish Country Dancing Dictionary

Home Again

Scottish Country Dance Instruction

Home Again 8x32 Jig for 3C by Sue McKinnell

1-8 1C and 2C dance rights hands across. 1C lead down the middle and cast into 3rd place; 2C and 3C step up on bars 5-6.
9-16 2C, 3C, and 1C dance back to back with partners. 3C and 1C dance left hands across.
17-24 1C cast behind 3C, who step down, then up between 2C, cast down behind 2C, and turn RH to face 1st corners.
25-32 1C dance hello-goodbye setting, setting first to 1st corners, turning over right shoulder on the second setting step to face partner across the dance, setting to partners, turning over right shoulder to face 2nd corners on the second setting step, setting to 2nd corner, turning over right shoulder on the second setting step to face partner up and down the dance, and turning petronella to own sides in second place on the last two bars of the phrase.

Repeat.

(Dance crib compiled by the deviser Sue McKinnell, 2018)


Keith Rose's Crib Diagrams


Dance Information

This jig, Home Again, was written as I returned from a trip to visit my family.

Suggested music is The Shuttle Bus from Terpsichore by Elke Baker and Liz Donaldson.

(Dance information by the deviser, Sue McKinnell)



Back to the top of this Scottish Country Dancing Instructions 'Home Again' page