Mrs Adie
Scottish Country Dance Instruction
Mrs Adie A thirty-two bar Strathspey for two couples in a circle round the room, first couples facing clockwise and second couples facing anticlockwise, each man with his partner on his right, devised by John W Mitchell, published in Whetherly Book 6.1- 8 First and second couples dance rights and lefts.
9-16 Reels of three: each person passes the person they are facing by the right, then passes the next person they meet by the left, dancing round that person to return to original places passing left and right.
17-20 First and second couples dance right hands across in a wheel.
21-22 First and second couples dance left hands across in a wheel half way.
23-24 First and second man change places giving left hand in passing (to return to their original places). Meanwhile the ladies dance on (first lady proceeding clockwise and second lady anticlockwise) to change places with the lady in the adjacent set giving right hand in passing.
25-26 The ladies change back giving left hand to the lady they have just changed places with, at the same time the men cross back giving right hand. All finish with their backs to their original opposites, first couples still facing clockwise and second couples anticlockwise with the ladies on their partners left. All face new couple having progressed.
27-28 With new opposite couple dance left hands across in a wheel half way to finish in a diagonal line with the ladies back to back facing own partner.
29-32 Change places with a half poussette to finish facing in original direction with the lady on her partners right.
Repeat with next couples. Recommended tune: Mrs Adie
(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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