Kinnegad Jig
Scottish Country Dance Instruction
Kinnegad Jig A forty-eight bar Jig for two couples in a circle round the room. Each man with his partner on his right, devised by John W Mitchell, Published in Whetherly Book 2.1- 4 Four hands across in a wheel with the right hand.
5- 8 The ladies retain right hands, and the men cast into their partners places to commence dancing a half ladies' chain. Retain the opposite ladies left hand at the end of the half chain.
9-12 Four hands across in a wheel with the left hand.
13-16 The men retain left hands whilst the ladies cast into their opposite partners place to commence a men's half chain. Turn with the right hand to finish with the men passing left shoulder in the centre of the set.
17-24 Men pass by the left shoulder to commence a reel of four and continue to pass the opposite lady by the right. At the end of the reel the men pass through their partners original places and continue to dance into the opposite man's original place as the ladies dance out into the opposite ladies original place.
25-28 All continuing to move in a clockwise direction dance four hands round to the left in a circle, opening out to finish facing own partner with nearer hands joined.
29-32 All dance back to back with own partner by the right shoulder to start.
33-36 All dance four hands round to the right in a circle. Retaining partners hand open out to finish facing opposites.
37-40 All dance back to back with opposite, passing by the left shoulder to start.
41-46 Giving right hand to opposite to commence dance three quarters rights and lefts to finish with backs to opposites, facing round the room in original direction, with each lady on her partner's right. All now facing a new couple.
47-48 All set to new couple they are facing.
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 2, 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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