Marie-Do And Lucie
Scottish Country Dance Instruction
Marie-Do And Lucie Anne Dejean32-bar medley of 16-bar strathspey and 16-bar reel for three couples in a four-couple longwise set
Strathspey
1 - 8 1st and 2nd couples dance the rose progression:
1st woman and 2nd man change places with the right hand, cast to the right, turn both hands halfway and twirl on the first diagonal while 1st man and 2nd woman set, turn both hands halfway, twirl on the first diagonal and cross to own sides.
9 - 16 2nd; 1st and 3rd couples dance six hands round and back.
Reel
17 - 24 2nd, 1st and 3rd women advance for 2 bars, set (partners DO NOT set back), dance around their partners passing them by the right and dance back to places.
25 - 32 men repeat bars 17-24.
Repeat, having passed a couple.
(Dance crib compiled by the deviser Anne Dejean August 2021)
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This medley, was devised for Marie-Do and Lucie, mother and daughter, the two devoted nurses who came daily to my home to take care of me.They were very kind and very friendly, I really appreciated their visits. The strathspey time represents their gentleness and kindness. And the movements danced on quick time are like nurses giving injections: needles approach, enter the skin, and then are pulled out. Dancers are invited to sing part of the tune, as my two nurses quite often used to start humming during the treatments.
(Dance information with the kind permission of the deviser, Anne Dejean)
Published in The Remission Book collection, reproduced here with the kind permission of the deviser, Anne Dejean.
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