Scottish Country Dancing Dictionary

Smiling At Ulrike

Scottish Country Dance Instruction

Smiling At Ulrike Medley 64 bars strathspey and 64 bars reel time in a Square Set, devised by Maria Hallmann and Verena Ebling 2014.

1-8 All M(en) advance and retire twice while W(omen) wait for 2 bars, advance retire, advance and pull back right shoulder to face towards corner
9-16 All W dance behind corner, in front of next M, behind next M finish in front of P(artner)
17-24 All W ½ LHA while M dance clw on one place, all turn "new P" right hand halfway;
 repeat with M ½ LHA while W chase one place clw
25-32 Repeat 17-24 to opposite places, W end facing out
33-48 All dance full Schiehallion Reel
49-56 All M dance in front of corner, behind next W, in front of next W, behind P back to places
57-64 All circle 8 hands round and back

repeat 1-64 in reeltime

(Dance crib compiled by the deviser, Maria Hallmann and Verena Ebling, under the CCA NoDerivatives 4.0 International License, October 2014)


Keith Rose's Crib Diagrams


Dance Information

This dance is devised for Ulrike Köppler.

For many years she was the only teacher of the Darmstadt group and she never gave up on us. The goal was to write a dance where every woman and every man has many chances to smile at Ulrike.

Suggested music: The Anniversary Medley from the CD Berkhamsted Golden Jubilee by Ken Martlew and Barbara Manning.

(Dance information by the deviser, Maria Hallmann and Verena Ebling, under the CCA NoDerivatives 4.0 International License, October 2014)


Published in Smiling At Ulrike, reproduced here under this Creative Commons Attribution - NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

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