Scottish Country Dancing Dictionary

Maggie Boag's Jig

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Maggie Boag's Jig 32 bar Jig for 4 Couples Rod Downey The Piwakawaka Collection

1-4 1C dance in almost shoulder to shoulder and face up and cast into second place (i.e. the long cast into second place). 2C step up on bars 3 and 4.
5-8 1C repeat 1-4 from second place and cast into 3rd place. 2C dance 1C's track for bars 1-4,
 while 3C dance up the middle with nearer hands joined on bars 7 and 8 to finish in the centre at top place facing up.
 while 4C dance in and dance out to the sidelines to begin to cast up in 4th place on bars 7 and 8.
9-16 3C and 2C dance a double figure of eight across through 1st and 2nd places with 3C casting into the figure and 2C crossing up to begin. (No hands) Similarly 1C and 4C dance a double figure of eight across through 4th and 3rd places, 1C crossing down to begin and 4C casting up. At then end 4C finish facing out.
17-20 1L with 4L using LH turn 1½ times to change places, and similarly 1M with 4M 1½ giving RH. 4C finish facing in. Similarly, 2L with 3L turn RH 1½ and 2M with 3M giving LH 1½.
21-24 3C dance up the centre (taking nearer hands) and cast around the second couple at the top back into second place. Similarly 4th couple dance down through the first couple at the foot and cast up into third place.
25-32 Eight hands round and back.

Finishing order 2,3,4,1. Repeat from new positions.

(Dance crib compiled by the deviser Rod Downey, Johnsonville SCD Club Tutor)


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This Jig was first devised 8th October, 2021. Revised 11 October 2021.

A gift for Maggie, who has danced with us for a couple of years, and now returns to Scotland. Maggie is great fun.

Recommended tune is "Creag Mhor" by Muriel Johnston played AABB; and any reasonable recording of "The Dhoon" will suffice. (I used the one by the Craigowl Band.)

(Dance information from The Piwakawaka Collection Of Scottish Country Dances, reproduced here with the kind permission of the deviser, Rod Downey)


Published in The Piwakawaka Collection, reproduced here with the kind permission of the deviser, Rod Downey.

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