Miss Elenora Robertson
Scottish Country Dance Instruction
Miss Elenora Robertson A forty bar Reel for three couples in a longwise set. Devised by John W Mitchell, Published in Whetherly Book 10.1- 8 First couple set, cast off and turn with the right hand one and a half times to face first corners.
9-10 First couple change places with their first corners giving left hand in passing.
11-12 Second man and third lady turn with the right hand three quarters round.
13-14 Second and third ladies change places giving left hand whilst second and third men do the same.
15-16 Second lady and third man turn with the right hand three quarters round.
17-18 First and second ladies change places giving left hand whilst first and third men do the same.
19-20 First couple turn with the right hand three quarters round to finish facing their second corner position (now occupied by first corner person), all having moved anticlockwise one place.
21-32 Repeat bars 9-20 from new positions:
21-22 turn first corners in with left hand;
23-24 corners turn three quarters with right hand;
25-26 corners change places left hand;
27-28 second corners turn right hand three quarters;
29-30 turn dancing couple in with left hand;
31-32 first couple turn with right hand.
33-36 First lady with second and third men dance left hands across in a wheel on the ladies' side of the set, whilst first man does the same on the men's side with second and third ladies.
37-40 Second and third couples dance half way round in an anticlockwise circle to own side of the set, whilst first couple turn with the right hand to finish in second place on own side of the set.
Repeat from second place. Recommended tune: Miss Elenora Robertson
(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 10, 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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