Rainbow Laces

Scottish Country Dance Instruction

RAINBOW LACES (R8x40) 3C (4C set) David Taylor

1- 8 1s cross down to dance reel of 3 on opposite sides (2s up/out, 3s up in)
9-16 1s cross down to dance reel of 3 on own sides
17-24 1s+2s dance Fig of 8 (1s cross down, 2s dance up). 1s end at top facing down nearer hands joined
25-32 1s dance down and back up to 2nd place own side (2s step up 29-30)
33-40 2s+1s+3s circle 6H round and back. 213

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

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This dance, Rainbow Laces, was devised by David Taylor (Manchester chair of the Scottish Country and Ceilidh Dance group in Greater Manchester for the LGBTQ+ Community and Friends) to commemorate The Rainbow Laces campaign of the English Premier League, initiated in 2013.

Rainbow Laces

Published in Rainbow Laces, reproduced here with the kind permission of the deviser, David Taylor (via Murrough Landon).
Image copyright (cropped, rotated) Lou Fioravanti, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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