One For All
Scottish Country Dance Instruction
One For All (R8x32) 3C (4C set) Rod Downey The Golden Bear CollectionA 32 bar Reel for 3 couples
1- 8 First and second couples dance 4 hands across and back.
9-10 First couple set.
11-14 As everyone claps on bar 11, first couple cross passing right shoulders and cast into second place on opposite sides. Second couple step up on bars 13 and 14.
15-16 First couple turn right hands to face first corners.
17-24 First couples and corners dances corners pass and turn, finishing with first couple passing right shoulder to finish in second place on own sides.
25-32 Six hands round and back.
(Dance crib compiled by the deviser Rod Downey, Johnsonville SCD Club Tutor)
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One For All - Scottish Country Dancing Instruction VideoDance Information
This reel, One For All, was devised on 21/9/2018 as a simple teaching dance for corners pass and turn. I use this after teaching the figure in Strathspey time using Miss Leslie Cunningham.Note that there are no figures aside from completely straightforward ones. The name is to suggest that this is one all can do, and also for Muriel Johnstone's tune of the same name, played ABAB.
An excellent recording to use is "Clydeside Lassies" as recorded by Luke Brady in part 5 of Dances from the Miscellany, where Muriel's tune appears as the second tume.
(Dance information from The Golden Bear Collection Of Scottish Country Dances, reproduced here with the kind permission of the deviser, Rod Downey)
The phrase "one for all" is most widely recognised as part of the longer expression "all for one, and one for all", a motto that conveys loyalty, unity, and mutual responsibility.
Its origins can be traced to literature, most famously Alexandre Dumas's 1844 novel The Three Musketeers, in which the characters pledge unwavering support to one another. Earlier uses of similar wording appear in English texts such as Shakespeare's The Rape of Lucrece in 1594, while the Latin form, unus pro omnibus, omnes pro uno, became associated with Switzerland in the nineteenth century as a symbol of national solidarity.
The phrase has since been adopted in many contexts, from politics and society to sport and popular culture, always carrying the same essential meaning: that each individual stands ready to act for the benefit of the group, and the group in turn protects and supports each individual.
Motto On The Dome Of The Federal Palace, Switzerland
Unus Pro Omnibus, Omnes Pro Uno
One For All, All For One
Published in The Golden Bear Collection, reproduced here with the kind permission of the deviser, Rod Downey.
Published in https://homepages.ecs.vuw.ac.nz/~downey/dances/book5.pdf
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