St Andrew's Parade
Scottish Country Dance Instruction
St Andrew's Parade A forty-eight bar Reel for four couples in a square set, devised by John W Mitchell, published in Whetherly Book 7.1- 4 The men dance right hands across in a wheel to finish facing own partner.
5- 8 Half a double reel of four: The ladies pass their partners by the right shoulder and give left hands across half way, finishing in opposite place. Meanwhile, the men dance around their partner's position to finish facing in, in the same position in which they started the reel movement (on bar 4).
9-12 The men dance left hands across in a wheel to finish in original places beside the opposite lady.
13-16 The ladies dance right hands across in a wheel half way and turn their partner by the left hand.
17-20 The ladies dance right hands across in a wheel to finish facing their partner.
21-24 Half a double reel of four: The men pass the ladies by the right and give left hands across in a wheel half way, finishing in opposite place. Meanwhile, the ladies dance around the men's position to finish facing in, in the same position as on bar 20.
25-28 The ladies dance left hands across in a wheel to original places.
29-32 The men dance right hands across in a wheel half way and turn their partners with the left hand to original places.
33-40 All turn corners with the right hand, into a promenade hold, and promenade three quarters round the set in a clockwise direction. The men finish in their original places with their new partners.
41-48 Reels of three round the square: All pass new partner by the right shoulder to commence, then pass same person again passing by the right, and proceed to pass previous partner by the left, dancing round to pass again by the left to return to place (i.e., each dancer treats the reel as though starting from second place in a right shoulder reel of three).
Repeat with new partners.
Recommended tune: St Andrew's Parade
Editor's note to the 2021 edition The two half double reels of four are strictly speaking slightly less than half a double reel.
(Dance crib reproduced from The Whetherly Book Of Scottish Country Dances, revised and republished by Alison Mitchell)
Keith Rose's Crib Diagram
Published in The Whetherly Book Of Scottish Country Dances Number 7, by John W Mitchell, revised and republished by Alison Mitchell. Instructions reproduced under the Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Licence (CC BY-ND 4.0).
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