Scottish Country Dancing Dictionary

I Canna Buckle To

Scottish Country Dance Instruction

I CANNA BUCKLE TO (S8x32) 3C (4C set) RSCDS Book 24

1- 8 1s followed by 2s cast to bottom, 1s+2s turn out and 2s followed by 1s dance back to top, 2s casting to 2nd places
9-16 1s lead down, cross dance out between 2s+3s opposite sides, cast round 3s, lead up to top, cross and cast on own sides to 2nd places
17-24 1s+3s circle 4H round to left, 2s+1s circle 4H round to left
25-32 2s+1s dance R&L

(MINICRIB. Dance crib compiled by Charles Upton, Deeside Caledonian Society, and his successors)


Keith Rose's Crib Diagrams


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Dance Information

"I Canna Buckle To", is Scots for "I can't get down to".

"Buckle Down" is a phrase meaning "to tackle a task with determination".

Recommended music: I Canna Buckle To by Muriel Johnstone's Scottish Dance Band.

Laziness, I Canna Buckle To
I Canna Buckle To
"Laziness" FĂ©lix Emile-Jean Vallotton (1865/1925), Woodcut, c. 1896


Image copyright (cropped) Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

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