Scottish Country Dancing Dictionary

Lowland Lilt

Scottish Country Dance Instruction

LOWLAND LILT (J32) Round The Room Jackie Johnstone Loreburn Book 3
Round the room dance, Men with backs to centre of room facing partners

1- 8 Set to partner, change places RH, set and turn RH to face anticlockwise in Allemande hold
9-16 Allemande 2 steps, set turning about to Reverse Allemande hold (retain hold of hands), Allemande 2 steps clockwise, set turning (retain hold of hands) to face partner and fall back to original place
17-24 Turn partner RH (4 bars) and turn next partner to left LH (your new partner)
25-32 Slip step anticlockwise 8 steps and back to new places facing new partner

(MINICRIB. Dance crib compiled by Charles Upton, Deeside Caledonian Society, and his successors)


Keith Rose's Crib Diagrams


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