Market Town Jig
Scottish Country Dance Instruction
Market Town Jig A thirty-two bar Jig for two couples in a longwise set. Devised by John W Mitchell, Published in Whetherly Book 9.1- 2 First and second couples join hands on the side and set.
3- 6 First and second couples dance four hands round to the left in a circle to finish facing up and down in original places.
7- 8 First and second couples set.
9-10 First and second couples dance a petronella turn into a line across the set with second man and first lady back to back in the middle facing first man and second lady respectively.
11-12 First and second couples set.
13-20 First and second couples dance a reel of four across the set.
21-22 First and second couples dance a petronella turn to finish facing up and down with second couple in first place and first couple in second place.
23-24 First and second couples set.
25-32 First and second couples dance rights and lefts giving right hands on the sides to commence.
Repeat from second place. Recommended tune: Market Town Jig
(Dance crib reproduced from The Whetherly Book Of Scottish Country Dances, revised and republished by Alison Mitchell)
Keith Rose's Crib Diagram
Published in The Whetherly Book Of Scottish Country Dances Number 9, 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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