Kitten Chaos Club
Scottish Country Dance Instruction
Kitten Chaos Club 32 Bar Jig For 3 Couples In A 4 Couple Set, Devised By Viktor Lehmann (2024)1-8 First couple dance six bars of a figure of eight, casting off to begin with, then set advancing, pulling right shoulder back to finish back to back in the centre in second place facing the opposite side. At the same time, second couple dance a full figure of eight, crossing up to begin with.
9-12 First man with second lady and first lady with second man join both hands, both tandems dancing up to the top of the set with 4 slip steps. First couple then set to swap places, pulling their right shoulder back to finish facing each other.
13-16 First couple join both hands and, with 4 slip steps, dance down to the centre in second place. First couple then set to swap places, pulling their right shoulder back to finish facing their first corners.
17-20 "Corners Pass and Hands Across": Corners dance to the center and pass one another right shoulder for two bars while first couple dance slightly towards the corner position, but instantly pulling right shoulder back to follow their corner into the centre; on bar 3 of the sequence, all join hands for a half right hands across; while the corners dance back to their original places, first couple keep hands to turn on, finishing to face their fourth corner.
21-24 Repeat bars 17-20 with fourth corners, first couple to finish in second place on own side, man facing up, lady facing down.
25-32 Diagonal rights and lefts for first couple, second man and third lady, starting on the sidelines. Finish in the order 2, 1, 3. At the end, first couple may stay facing out to start the new repeat.
(Dance crib compiled by the deviser, Viktor Lehmann, under the CCA NoDerivatives 4.0 International License, September 25, 2024)
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Introducing the new figure "Corners Pass and Hands Across".This dance is dedicated to Marjorie and Richard McLaughlin, if not to their two cats Alice and Dinah (represented by first couple) who they adopted in 2024 and who seem to be all over the place, even in online meetings.
Music Suggestion: Christine M Phillips (Marian Andersons Scottish Dance Band)
(Dance information by the deviser, Viktor Lehmann, under the CCA NoDerivatives 4.0 International License, September 25, 2024)

"Kittens At Play" Henriette Ronner-Knip, Dutch, Oil On Panel, c. 1821-1909
Published in Kitten Chaos Club, reproduced here under this Creative Commons Attribution - NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
Image copyright Henriette Ronner-Knip, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
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