Scottish Country Dancing Dictionary

My Mother's Coming In

Scottish Country Dance Instruction

MY MOTHER'S COMING IN (R8x32) 3C (4C set) Button And Whitaker RSCDS Book 15

1- 8 1s dance parallel RSh reels of 3 on own sides
9-16 1s set, cast 1 place and dance ½ Figs of 8 round 2s
17-24 2s+1s+3s advance and retire and turn 2H (1s ½ or 1½ times to end BtoB facing own sides)
25-32 1s dance Double Triangles with 2s+3s

(MINICRIB. Dance crib compiled by Charles Upton, Deeside Caledonian Society, and his successors)

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My Mother's Coming In is a Scottish Country Dance devised by Wilson in 1815 (published by Button and Whitaker) and interpreted in RSCDS Book 15 in 1949.

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