Loudon's Bonnie Woods
Scottish Country Dance Instruction
Loudon's Bonnie Woods A thirty-two bar Strathspey for trios, each comprising a man between two ladies in a circle round the room, the trios facing alternately clockwise and anticlockwise, devised by John W Mitchell, published in Whetherly Book 6.1- 2 All join nearer hands and set with Highland Schottische step right foot.
3- 4 Change places with the person facing, giving left hands, using two travelling steps left foot and right foot. Remaining in the same direction with backs to the persons with whom each has changed places.
5- 6 All join nearer hands end set with Highland Schottische step left foot.
7- 8 Change places with the person facing giving right hands. Again remain facing in the same direction.
9-14 Reels of three, with own partners, each man passing his left hand partner by the right shoulder to commence.
15-16 Each man casts behind his left hand partner to finish facing the opposite man's right hand partner.
17-22 Reels of three with opposite man's right hand partner and own left hand partner, passing the opposite man's right hand partner by the left shoulder to commence.
23-24 Each man dances into the opposite man's place to change partners.
25-28 Six hands across in a wheel with the right hands once round, at the end release right hands but continue in the same direction ready for:
29-32 Left hands across in a wheel with the trio on the left, i.e. the trio backing on to your set. Finish opening out to face the trio with whom the left hand wheel was danced. Thus the men continue facing in the same direction as originally with their new partners, the ladies having changed partners and direction.
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
Dance Information
Recommended tune: Loudon's Bonnie Woods.Published in The Whetherly Book Of Scottish Country Dances Number 6, 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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