Humours Of Castle Barnard
Scottish Country Dance Instruction
Humours Of Castle Barnard A thirty-two bar Reel for four couples in a circle round the room, devised by John W Mitchell, Published in Whetherly Book 5.First and second couples facing clockwise and third and fourth couples facing anticlockwise, with odd numbered couples on the outside and even numbered couples on the inside.
1- 4 First and third couples dance right hands across in a wheel, second and fourth couples do the same.
5- 8 First man and third lady turn with the left hand; first lady, third man, second man and fourth lady dance left hands across in a wheel; and second lady and fourth man turn with the left hand.
9-16 First and second couples dance a reel of four, third and fourth couples do the same.
17-24 First and third couples dance a ladies' chain, second and fourth couples do the same.
25-28 All join hands in two lines and advance and retire.
29-32 All set and cross giving right hands to finish facing a new line of dancers.
Repeat with new couples.
(Dance crib reproduced from The Whetherly Book of Scottish Country Dances, revised and republished by Alison Mitchell)
Keith Rose's Crib Diagram
Published in The Whetherly Book Of Scottish Country Dances Number 5, by John W Mitchell, revised and republished by Alison Mitchell. Instructions reproduced under the Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Licence (CC BY-ND 4.0).
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