Parks Of Kilbirnie
Scottish Country Dance Instruction
Parks Of Kilbirnie A forty-eight bar Reel for three couples in a longwise set. Devised by John W Mitchell, Published in Whetherly Book 10.1- 8 First couple cast off, dance a half figure of eight round second couple and turn left hand to face their first corners. Second couple step up on bars one and two.
9-10 First couple change places with their first corners giving right hand.
11-12 Second man and third lady turn left hand three quarters to face own partner.
13-14 Second couple change places giving right hand, third couple do the same.
15-16 Second lady and third man turn left hand three quarters to face first couple.
17-18 First lady and third man change places right hand whilst first man and second lady do the same.
19-20 First couple turn left hand three quarters to face their fourth corner position (first corner people), all having moved one place clockwise.
21-32 Repeat bars 9-20:
21-22 first couple change with corners right hand;
23-24 first corners turn left hand to partners;
25-26 second and third couples change with right hand;
27-28 second corners turn left hand;
29-30 corners change with first couple right hand;
31-32 first couple turn left hand to face first corner people again, now in third corner position.
33-36 Half a reel of four with first corners, first couple pass left shoulder to finish facing second corner people (in fourth corner position), still on own side of the set. The corners dance a complete loop to their right at the end.
37-40 First couple dance half a reel of three on own side of the set giving left shoulder to fourth corner position to start (i.e. lady up, man down). First couple finish facing third corner position, now occupied by their second corners.
41-48 Repeat bars 33-40, first couple following the same path to finish in second place facing out:
41-44 second corners dance a half reel of four back to own side.
45-48 corners dance half reels of three on sides (left shoulder to fourth corner position, lady up and man down) to get second couple to the top.
Repeat from second position. At the end of the repeat first couple again finish in second place facing out and cast to the foot on bars 1 & 2 of the next repeat as the new top man starts. Recommended tune: Parks of Kilbirnie.
(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 10, 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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