A Mary Summer
Scottish Country Dance Instruction
A Mary Summer 4x32 bar Strathspey for 4 Couples Rod Downey The Cane Toad CollectionA four couple, 32 bar strathspey.
1-8 First and second couples and third and fourth couples dance 'The Rose' progression.
1-2 First man and second woman set to each other
while
first woman and second man change places with right hands to finish facing out.
3-4 First man and second woman half turn with both hands to finish facing each other on the diagonal with hands joined
while
first woman dances up to first man's place and second man dances down to second woman's place.
5-6 First man and second woman cast to the right and dance out to the sidelines to finish in each other's place
while
first woman and second man half turn with both hands to finish facing each other on the diagonal with hands joined.
7-8 First man dances across to second man's place
while
second woman dances across to first woman's place
while first woman and second man cast to the right and dance out to the side-lines to finish with first woman in second woman's place and second man in first man's place.
Third and fourth couples dance similarly.
9-16 Second and first couples and fourth and third couples dance right hands across and back with the left. Second and first couples and fourth and third couples finish facing each other up and down on the side-lines.
17-18 Second and first couples and fourth and third couples set to each other.
19-22 Second, first, fourth and third couples dance half reels of four on own sides passing by right shoulders at the ends of the reels to begin.
23-24 Third, fourth, first and second couples set with nearer hands joined on the sides.
25-32 Fourth and first couples dance a Tournee.
Repeat from new positions.
(Dance crib compiled by the deviser Rod Downey, Johnsonville SCD Club Tutor)
Keith Rose's Crib Diagrams
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This strathspey, the second dance with the Rose progression, was devised in January 1994 for Mary Stoker, who spent much of the New Zealand Branch Summer School in Wanganui (December/January 1993/1994) teaching Kristin and me the Tournee and four hands across and back.The first dance with the Rose progression was Jenny Freeman's Strathspey
The recommended tune is "The Bob O' Dowally" played ABAB.
Suitable music "The Bob O' Dowally" recorded by Bobby Crowe and his Scottish Dance Band on "Music For Eleven Traditional Dances - Book 2" (RSCDS 11).
(Dance information from The Cane Toad Collection Of Scottish Country Dances, reproduced here with the kind permission of the deviser, Rod Downey)
Published in The Cane Toad Collection, reproduced here with the kind permission of the deviser, Rod Downey.
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