Scottish Country Dancing Dictionary

It's In The Bag

Scottish Country Dance Instruction

It's In The Bag (R8x32) 3C (4C set) Lewis N Derrick 1987
1-4 The 1st couple turn by the right hand and cast off one place on their own sides; the 2nd couple step up on bars 3-4
5-8 The 1st couple turn by the left hand and cast one place on their own sides, woman up and man down
9-16 The 1st couple dance the full figure of a ladies' chain with their first corners. To begin, the corners cross over giving right hands while the 1st couple dance across the set into their first-corner positions ready to turn their partner's first corner by the left hand; the 1st couple end in centre facing their own sides, 1st woman between the 2nd couple and 1st man between the 3rd couple
17-24 The 1st couple dance the full figure of a men's chain with their second corners. To begin, the corners cross over giving left hands while the 1st couple dance across the set into their partner's second-corner positions ready to turn their own second corners by the right hand; the 1st couple end facing their first corners again
25-30 Giving left shoulder to first corner to begin, the 1st woman with the 2nd couple, likewise the 1st man with the 3rd couple, dances a six-bar reel of three across; the 1st couple end on own sides in second place man facing up woman facing down
31-32 The 1st and 2nd men, likewise the 1st and 3rd women, turn once round by the left hand on sidelines

Repeat having passed a couple

(Dance crib compiled by the deviser, Lewis N Derrick 2020)


Dance Information

This reel, It's In The Bag, was devised for Kay Robb.

Suggested tune: Good Humour.

Devised January 1987; first published 1988; republished electronically 2020.

Copyright 1987, 1988, 2020 Lewis N. Derrick.

(Dance information reproduced here with the kind permission of the deviser, Lewis N Derrick)


Published in The McGhie Scottish Country Dance Books, Volume 3, Peggy Mcghie's Reel and Other Scottish Country Dances, reproduced here with the kind permission of the deviser, Lewis N Derrick.

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