Mrs Low's Reel
Scottish Country Dance Instruction
Mrs Low's Reel A thirty-two bar Reel for four couples in a four couple longwise set, devised by John W Mitchell, Published in Whetherly Book 3.1- 2 First and fourth couples cross over giving right hand in passing.
3- 4 First couple cast off into second place, second couple step up, and third couple step down whilst fourth couple casts up into third place.
5- 8 First and fourth couples dance left hands across in a wheel to finish in the centre facing their corners.
9-12 First and fourth couples turn their corners by the right hand; then dance left hands across in a wheel half way in the center of the set.
13-16 Repeat bars 9-12 with new corners.
17-24 Reels of four on the sides. First and fourth couples commence the reels by passing their corners by the right shoulders, they finish by passing left shoulder in the middle.
25-28 Second and first couples dance right hands across in a wheel; the fourth and third couples do the same.
29-32 The first and fourth couples dance half rights and lefts to finish on own side of the set in the order 2, 4, 1, 3.
Repeat with new leading couples.
(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 3, 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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