McKenzie Hay
Scottish Country Dance Instruction
McKenzie Hay A thirty-two bar Strathspey for two couples in a four couple longwise set, devised by John W Mitchell, Published in Whetherly Book 2.1- 2 All join hands on the side and set.
3- 4 First couple turn half way with the right hand, retain their hold.
5- 8 First and second couples dance right hands across in a wheel one and one eight times to finish with the men on the sidelines and the ladies facing up and down the set.
9-16 First and second couples dance a double Highland Schottische petronella:
9-10 set with right foot, Highland Schottische, turning at the end of bar 10 to face out;
11-12 set with the left foot, Highland Schottische, turning at the end of bar 12 to face in, men facing up and down and ladies on the side lines;
13-16 repeat bars 9-12 to finish on the opposite side of the diamond from which they started.
17-24 First and second couples dance a ladies' chain on the diagonal.
25-28 First and second couples dance left hands across in a wheel one and one eight times to finish on the sidelines, first couple on second place on own side.
29-30 Second couple retain left hand and turn half way to own side.
31-32 All join hands on the side and set.
Repeat from second place.
(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 2, 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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