Scottish Country Dancing Dictionary

The Southside Wedding

Scottish Country Dance Instruction

THE SOUTHSIDE WEDDING (M-(2xS32+2xR32)) Sq.Set Niall Bootland, 2023

1- 8 Ladies dance RH across and face out; Ladies chase clockwise ½ round to opposite place
9-16 Men dance LH across and face out; Men chase anticlockwise ½ round to opposite place. Ladies pull back LSh to face out. 3412
17-24 All dance 8 bars of Schiehallion reels to end in original places
25-32 All dance "Circular Knot":
 25-26 Turn partner ½ RH into allemande hold facing anticlockwise (Men in centre)
 27-27 All dance 1 place round
 28-32 All release RH, Men dance into place, Ladies dance towards centre and All turn partner LH. 2341

Repeat as Strathspey then twice as Reel to end in original places

(MINICRIB. Dance crib compiled by Charles Upton, Deeside Caledonian Society, and his successors)


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