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Scottish Country Dance Instruction

1- 4 1st couple cross passing right shoulder, then cast off one place as 2nd couple step up.
5- 8 1st couple dance left shoulder round each other nearly one and half times to end back to back on the diagonal facing their 3rd corners.
9-12 1st couple set to 3rd corners. 1st couple cast away to the corner position behind them as the corners dance in and face the position they just left.
13-16 1st woman, 2nd man, 3rd woman and 1st man dance half a diagonal reel of four starting by passing right shoulder.
17-20 1st man and 3rd woman, also 1st woman and 2nd man, giving right hands, turn one and a half times. 2nd woman and 3rd man end in the corners while 1st couple pass left shoulder to end back to back on the diagonal facing their 4th corners.
21-32 1st couple repeat bars 9-20 with their 4th corners. 1st couple end the turns on the centre line, left shoulder to partner, 1st man below 1st woman. All the corners face clockwise.
33-36 1st couple turn once (or twice!) round with the left hand ending on the centre line while the corners chase half way clockwise to own sides.
37-40 1st woman with 2nd couple, and 1st man with 3rd couple, each dance right hands across ending on the sides in the order 2,1,3.

(Dance crib compiled by the deviser, Murrough Landon, CC BY-SA July 2021)

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The sequence of set to corners and cast away followed by half a diagonal reel of four comes from Jaywalking by Campbell Tyler.

Recommended music: Suggested tune Chinese Dance (Traditional); suitable recording A Set of Reels (Neil Barron and his SDB: Music for Scottish Dancing).

(Dance information by the deviser, Murrough Landon, CC BY-SA July 2021)

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