Scottish Country Dancing Dictionary

Push About The Jorum

Scottish Country Dance Instruction

PUSH ABOUT THE JORUM (R8x32) 3C (4C set) Thomas Skillern RSCDS Book 14

1- 8 1L turns 3M RH to end in 2nd place own side, 1M+3L turn RH and return to original places
9-16 1M+2L and 1L+2M dance Allemande 1s end in lines across 1L between 2s facing 1M between 3s
17-24 2s+1s+3s set in lines across twice 1s turning onto own sides, 2s+1s+3s set on sides twice
25-32 2s+1s+3s circle 6H round and back

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


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Push About the Jorum is a Scottish Country Dance originally published by Bride in 1775 and interpreted by the RSCDS in Book 14, published 1947 (The RSCDS attributes it to Skillern, who published the same figure a few years later).

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