Spaghetti Junction (Bakker)

Scottish Country Dance Instruction

1-2 Half right hands across at top and bottom, 1st with 2nd couple and 4th with 5th couple
3-8 1st man followed by partner dances out at the top followed by partner to chase clockwise to 4th place (own side)
 While 5th lady followed by partner dances out at the bottom to chase round clockwise to 2nd place (own side)
9-16 Teapot + Snake Pass in the centre of the set:
 3rd lady with 5s and 3rd man with 1s dance right hand teapots. The 3rd couple continues to lead the couple behind them down the snake path passing left shoulder in the centre of the set.
17-22 All chase halfway round anticlockwise
 (2nd and 4th couple join in with the others continuing in the direction of the snake pass)
23 -24 'The U-turn':
 3rd couple cross over right hand while 1st and 5th couple cast out pulling back right shoulder ready to chase round in opposite direction
25-28 Central couples chase halfway, 5th, 3rd and 1st couple chase halfway round clockwise
29-30 3rd couple cross right hand
31-32 3rd couple cast to 4th place. 4,1,5,3,2

(Dance crib compiled by the deviser, Adam Bakker, 2025)

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"Spaghetti Junction" is a popular nickname often applied to complex, heavily intertwined road traffic interchanges whose overlapping lanes and ramps resemble a tangled plate of spaghetti.

The phrase was first coined to describe the Gravelly Hill Interchange on the M6 motorway in Birmingham, United Kingdom, a landmark engineering feat that has since become one of the most recognized examples of such junctions worldwide.

Spaghetti Junction, Birmingham

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