Scottish Country Dancing Dictionary

Pond Place

Scottish Country Dance Instruction

POND PLACE (S32) Round The Room Chris Ronald Big Apple Collection
Round the room dance, 2 facing 2

1- 8 1s (facing clockwise) lead forward between 2s and cast back to place, 2s lead between 1s and cast back to place
9-16 1M+2L lead between partners and cast back to place, 2M+1L lead between partners and cast back to place
17-24 All set twice and turn opposite person RH 1¼ times into lines of 4 (1s facing clockwise, 2s anticlockwise)
25-28 All Balance-in-Line twice moving to right (changing places and hands with opposite person) and to left back again
29-32 All turn opposite person RH 1¼ times and turn right about to face next couple

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


Keith Rose's Crib Diagrams


Dance Information

This strathspey, Pond Place, was devised in May 2000 for Robin and Nick Knox of Pond Place, Babylon, to celebrate their first wedding anniversary.
Pond Place
Pond At Bretby, Derbyshire


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