The Lea Rig
Scottish Country Dance Instruction
THE LEA RIG (S8x32) 2C (4C set) RSCDS Book 211-16 1s dance full Petronella figure back to place while 2s step up bars 1-2, set bars 3-4, then follow 1s. 2s petronella turn to 2nd place on bars 15-16
17-24 1s lead down centre of set and back to top
25-32 1s+2s dance RH across once round and ½ Diamond Poussette to change places
(MINICRIB. Dance crib compiled by Charles Upton, Deeside Caledonian Society, and his successors)
Keith Rose's Crib Diagram
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The Lea Rig - Scottish Country Dancing Instruction VideoDance Information
The Lea Rig is a Scottish Country Dance of uncertain origin and interpreted in RSCDS Book 21 in 1961.(Dance information copyright, reproduced here with the kind permission of George Williams)
The lea rig is a term used to describe that part of a field left to pasture when the land was divided into strips among tenants or a ridge left unplowed in a cultivated field.
This dance shares its title with the The Lea Rig - Song, a Scottish song with versions dating from at least the eighteenth century.
Robert Burns wrote his own words for the song in 1792, beginning "When o'er the hill the eastern star". "Lea" means grassland or pasture, while a "rig" is a ridge or strip of cultivated land.
The song has been sung to airs including The Lea Rig and My Ain Kind Dearie.
Will ye gang o'er the ley-rigg
Wi' me, my kind deary O,
And cudle there fu' kindly,
Myne ain kind dearie O?
The Lea Rig Song - Information Video
The Lea Rig, From Glen Collection Of Printed Music, Caledonian Songster, Page 62
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