Scottish Country Dancing Dictionary

Roun We Go

Scottish Country Dance Instruction

Roun We Go
Maggie and Duncan Keppie Haliburton School Of Arts SCD Book 1: Tenth Anniversary Book
4x32 bar Jig
4-couple dance in square set

  1-8   SET TWICE AND TURN: all set twice to partner and turn once round with right hand;

  9-16 ½ GRAND CHAIN AND SET: starting with partner, all dance a Grand Chain halfway and set to partner;

17-24 TURN AND PROMENADE: all turn partner 1¼ times around and promenade home;

25-28 WOMEN ADVANCE AND RETIRE: women advance to center and retire;

29-32 MEN ADVANCE, AND DANCE BACK TO LEFT: men advance to center; then pulling left shoulder back dance out to man's place on the left of original place (corner becomes new partner).

Repeat 3 times.

(Dance crib compiled by the devisers, Maggie and Duncan Keppie)


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