Scottish Country Dancing Dictionary

Left Is The New Right

Scottish Country Dance Instruction

Left Is the New Right
Tobias Hünger 2018
Reel 3 x 32 bars 3 Couple Repeat 3 Couple Set Longwise Set

  1-8   1s2s3s dance a reverse form of set and rotate for three, finishing 3s2s1s:

  1-2   all set facing partner;

  3-4   all pull left shoulder back and chase one quarter, anticlockwise, around the corners' square, finishing 1L 2L 3L in 1st position facing partners in 3rd position;

  5-6   1s 2s 3s cross up and down by the left, finishing facing anticlockwise;

  7-8   all chase one quarter, anticlockwise, around the corners' square, finishing 3s in 1st place and 1s in 3rd place on own sides, 2s facing first corners;

  9-12 giving left shoulder to start, 2s dance half reverse reel of 4 with first corners, pulling left shoulder back to finish facing second corners;

13-16 giving left shoulder to start, 2s dance half reverse reel of 4 with second corners, pulling left shoulder back to finish in 2nd place, all on opposite sides;

17-20 all dance a reverse form of set and link for three:

17-18 taking hands on the sides, all set;

19-20 3L dance inwards to finish in 1M's place facing down WHILE 1M dance inwards to finish in 3L's place facing up WHILE 1L 2s 3M cast anticlockwise in tandem one quarter around the corners' square;

21-24 3L1L 3M1M cross on the sides by the left and across by the right with partner WHILE 2s turn by the left, finishing 1s 2s 3s on own side of the centreline, facing partner with both hands joined;

25-32 1s2s3s dance poussette for three couples, finishing 2s3s1s on own sides.

(MAXICRIB. Scottish country dancing instructions compiled by Reuben Freemantle)


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