The Magic Dishpan
Scottish Country Dance Instruction
The Magic Dishpan 4x32 Strathspey for 4C Square Set by Sue McKinnell1-8 All dance a grand chain, ending in original places.
9-16 1C and 3C set advancing, turn the person opposite once round opening into a circle left once round, breaking early enough to end in original places. (Men lead out to original places.)
17-24 All dance interlocking rights and lefts: 1C and 3C dance rights and lefts as normal across and back. 2C and 4C begin by changing places RH with partners, then changing places across the set with the person opposite LH, change places RH with partners, and change places across the set LH.
25-28 2C and 4C dance LH across once round, ending in original places.
29-32 All chase 1 place CCW and set. End 2, 3, 4, 1.
Repeat.
(Dance crib compiled by the deviser Sue McKinnell)
Keith Rose's Crib Diagrams
Dance Information
In The Lost Princess of Oz, Cayke the Cookie Cook has her magic dishpan stolen. Ugu the shoemaker uses it to steal all the magic he can from the inhabitants of Oz (including Ozma of Oz).Suggested music: Old School Strathspey from Green Ginger's 12 Scottish Country Dances by Mervyn Short.
(Dance information by the deviser, Sue McKinnell)
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