The Saturday Strathspey

Scottish Country Dance Instruction

The Saturday Strathspey (S8x24) 2C (4C set) Lewis N Derrick 1987
1-2 The 1st woman and 2nd man set to one another on the diagonal
3-4 Giving right hands to partners, the 1st and 2nd couples cross over
5-6 The 1st man and 2nd woman set to one another on the diagonal
7-8 The 1st and 2nd couples turn partners three quarters round by the right hand to end in a line in the centre, the men facing down and the women facing up
9-12 Passing right shoulders with partners to begin, the 1st and 2nd couples dance half a reel of four up and down the centre, ending with the men facing up and the women facing down
13-16 The 2nd and 1st couples turn partners one and a quarter times round by the right hand to end on their own sides having changed places
17-24 The 2nd and 1st couples dance four hands round to the left and back

Repeat having passed a couple

(Dance crib compiled by the deviser, Lewis N Derrick 2020)

Dance Notes

Bars 7-16 are a modified and inverted half-reel progression.

(Dance notes by the deviser, Lewis N Derrick)

Dance Information

This dance, The Saturday Strathspey, was devised for Reading St Andrews Junior Scottish Dancers.

Suggested tune: Sally Woodward's Strathspey (Ray Milbourne).

Devised November 1987; first published 1988; republished electronically .

(Dance information reproduced here with the kind permission of the deviser, Lewis N Derrick)

Published in The McGhie Scottish Country Dance Books, Volume 3, Peggy Mcghie's Reel and Other Scottish Country Dances, reproduced here with the kind permission of the deviser, Lewis N Derrick.

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