Mrs Jean Lumsden

Scottish Country Dance Instruction

Strathspey tempo:
1-8 1st couple turn right hand, cast (2nd couple step up 3-4) and turn left hand to face 1st corners.
9-16 1st couple and 1st corners dance corners pass and turn. 1st couple pass left shoulders on bar 12 to face partner's 1st corner and with 1st corners dance a right shoulder half-reel of 4. On bar 16, 1st couple turn left hand to face 2nd corners.
17-24 Repeat bars 9-16 with 2nd corners. On bar 24, 1st couple turn left hand towards 2nd place on opposite sides, man facing up and lady facing down. 2nd corners loop, pulling back right shoulders ready to enter the following half-reel.
25-28 1st couple dance a half-reel of 3 across the dance; 1st man with 3rd couple (top place) and 1st lady with 2nd couple (3rd place). Begin the half-reel by passing 1st corner (in partner's 1st corner position) by the left and finish in 2nd place own side.
29-32 All dance a half-reel of 3 on own sides. Dancing couple pass partner's 1st corner right shoulder to begin. Finish (2, 1, 3) on own sides ready to repeat from new places.

Having passed a couple, repeat in reel time.

Next couple then start in strathspey time again.

(Dance crib compiled by the deviser, Neville Pope, 2022)

Dance Information

Recommended Recording: Her Majesty is Welcome on A Fife Fairing by the Ron Gonella Quartet and Boby Crowe May be danced in strathspey time to any strathspey with a strong beat.

(Dance information copyright, reproduced here with the kind permission of the deviser, Neville Pope, 2022)

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