School At Home
Scottish Country Dance Instruction
School At Home S4x32 Anne Dejean32-bar strathspey for two couples in a longwise set
1 - 8 All cast one place and set, then 1st man and 2nd woman, giving right hands, turn one and a half times back to own sides, all having progressed.
9 - 16 1st couple in promenade hold dance a reel of three across with 2nd couple, beginning left shoulder to 2nd man, and finish in first place in the middle of the set facing up with 2nd couple in promenade hold behind them.
17 - 24 1st and 2nd couples dance an allemande.
25 - 28 2nd couple, giving right hands, turn one and a half times, and finish in first place in the middle of the set facing down with nearer hands joined, as 1st couple, giving left hand, turn one and a half times (mirror movement with 2nd couple) and finish in second place in the middle of the set facing up with nearer hands joined.
29 - 32 2nd and 1st couples set and link back to on own sides.
Repeat from these new places, or if there are more than two couples, having passed a couple.
(Dance crib compiled by the deviser Anne Dejean)
Keith Rose's Crib Diagram
Dance Information
This strathspey, School At Home, was devised in April 2020We had just had five whole weeks of school at home for our two children, which was quite interesting and... different. I must admit I was glad to have two weeks holidays afterwards!
(Dance information from The Stay At Home Book, published 2020, reproduced here with the kind permission of the deviser, Anne Dejean)
Published in The Stay At Home Book, reproduced here with the kind permission of the deviser, Anne Dejean.
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