A Reel For Rachel

Scottish Country Dance Instruction

A Reel For Rachel A 32-bar reel for 3 couples in a 4-couple longwise set, Gervaise Vaz (2025), 6 Dances From Devon & Cornwall

1- 8 1st couple set. 1st woman, followed by her partner, casts off two places, crosses over below 3rd couple, casts up to second place and dances in to face her first corner. 1st man dances up the middle of the set to face his first corner. 1st couple finish back-to-back. 2nd couple step up on bars 7-8.
9-16 1st couple dance six bars of set to corners and partner (Hello - Goodbye setting) and finish with a petronella turn into second place on own sides.
17-20 2nd, 1st and 3rd couples advance and retire.
21-28 1st woman with 3rd couple and 1st man with 2nd couple dance reels of three across the set, 1st woman and 3rd man and 1st man and 2nd woman pass by the right to begin. 1st couple finish in second place on their own sides.
29-32 1st couple, giving left hands, turn once round. Finish 213.

Repeat having passed a couple.

(Dance crib compiled by the deviser, Gervaise Vaz, 2025)

Dance Information

This dance was devised by Gervaise Vaz in 2025 to celebrate Rachel Clatworthy's milestone birthday.

Suggested tunes: The New Waterloo Reel (Alan Gardiner: RSCDS Book 26) or The Cumbrae Reel (Jimmy Lindsay: RSCDS Scottish Dance favourites, vol.2)

(Dance information by the deviser, Gervaise Vaz, 2025)

Published in A Reel For Rachel, reproduced here with the kind permission of the deviser, Gervaise Vaz (via Graham Quartly).

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