Loch Snizort Beag

Scottish Country Dance Instruction

1- 4 1st couple lead down the middle
5- 6 1st couple lead up the middle to finish between 3rd couple
7- 8 1st couple, giving right hands, turn three quarters to finish 1st woman between 2nd couple facing up and 1st man between 4th couple facing down (3rd couple turn right about to face out on bar 8)
9-16 All dance half Schiehallion reels
 ("corners" dance to the middle of the side beyond the corner to their right while "middles" cast to the corner next to them, on their right)
17-20 All chase clockwise halfway
21-22 1st couple, giving right hands, turn three quarters to finish in third place on opposite sides facing out while 2nd and 3rd couples take hands and step up
23-24 1st couple cast off one place on opposite sides while 4th couple dance up into third place to finish facing down
25-32 1st couple cross up into mirror reels of four on own sides (right shoulder on women's side and left shoulder on men's side) to finish 2 3 4 1

Repeat with a new top couple.

(Dance crib compiled by Geraldine and Holger Schuckelt, under the CCA NoDerivatives 4.0 International License, 2017)

Keith Rose's Crib Diagram

Loch Snizort Beag - Full Size And Key To Symbols

Dance Information

Loch Snizort Beag is a sea loch in the northwest of the Isle of Skye between the Waternish and Trotternish peninsulas.

In May 2012 we spent a lovely two-week holiday in a cottage overlooking the loch.

Recommended music: "Cha toir Iain Mor an nighean dhomh" (traditional) recorded as: "Eilean Ban" on "A Skye Collection" by Muriel Johnstone and Colin Dewar.

(Dance information by Geraldine and Holger Schuckelt, under the CCA NoDerivatives 4.0 International License, 2017)

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