Isle O'Walsay
Scottish Country Dance Instruction
Isle O'Walsay A thirty-two bar Reel for sets of two couples in a circle round the room, devised by John W Mitchell, Published in Whetherly Book 5.First couples face clockwise and second couples face anticlockwise, Ladies on the men's right.
1- 4 Four hands round to the left in a circle to place.
5- 6 Continue to the left for four more slip steps, first couple dancing out of the circle and second couple into the centre of the room.
7- 8 Four slip steps to the right back to place.
9-12 Four hands round in a circle to the right to place.
13-14 Continue to the right for four more slip steps, first couple dancing in and second couple dancing out.
15-16 Four slip steps to the left back to place.
17-24 Dance a ladies' chain.
25-26 All advance, first couple dancing under an arch made by second couple.
27-28 All continue to advance in the same direction but second couples dance under an arch made by the next first couple that they meet.
29-32 Repeat bars 25-28 to pass two more couples.
Repeat from new places.
(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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