Miss Doreen Lambert
Scottish Country Dance Instruction
Miss Doreen Lambert A forty bar Strathspey for two couples in a circle round the room, first couple facing clockwise and second couple facing anticlockwise, devised by John W Mitchell, published in Whetherly Book 6.1- 8 First and second couples dance a ladies' chain.
9-12 First and second couples dance half rights and lefts.
13-16 First and second couples dance right hands across in a wheel once round.
17-24 First and second couples dance four hands round in a circle to the left and back to the right.
25-28 First and second couples dance left hands across in a wheel once round to finish facing own partner.
29-32 First and second couples dance half rights and lefts.
33-40 First and second couples dance the knot:
33-34 turn partner with the right hand half way into an allemande hold, first couple facing anticlockwise and second couple facing clockwise round the circle;
35-36 each couple promenades anticlockwise, in allemande hold, second couple dancing to first man's place round the outside of the circle, whilst first couple dance round the inside of the circle to second man's place:
37-40 releasing right hand, turn with the left hand half way round to finish with first couple facing clockwise and second couple facing anticlockwise. Each couple has their backs to the couple they have just danced with and is facing new couple.
Repeat from new places. Recommended tune: Miss Doreen Lambert
(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 6, 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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