St Valentine's Chase
Scottish Country Dance Instruction
ST VALENTINE'S CHASE (R3x32) 3C set Geraldine and Holger Schuckelt Borderland Dances1- 4 1s+2s+3s advance and retire
5-16 1s+2s+3s dance 3 couple R&L
17-24 All Ladies cross passing partner LSh and chase anticlockwise ½ way round and set while all men set, cross over and chase anticlockwise ½ way round. 321
25-28 3s+2s+1s dance ½ reflection reels of 3 on sides (3s+2s cross down to opposite sides from 1st place, 3M gives RSh to 1L and 3L gives LSh to 1M) 1(2)(3)
29-32 1s+2s dance ½ RH across, 1s+3s dance ½ LH across. 231
(MINICRIB. Dance crib compiled by Charles Upton, Deeside Caledonian Society, and his successors)
Keith Rose's Crib Diagrams
Dance Information
Saint Valentine was a 3rd-century Roman saint, commemorated in Western Christianity on February 14 and in Eastern Orthodoxy on July 6. From the High Middle Ages, his Saints' Day has been associated with a tradition of courtly love.He is also a patron saint of Terni, epilepsy and beekeepers. Saint Valentine was a clergyman - either a priest or a bishop - in the Roman Empire who ministered to persecuted Christians. He was martyred and his body buried on the Via Flaminia on February 14, which has been observed as the Feast of Saint Valentine (Saint Valentine's Day) since at least the eighth century.
"Saint Valentine" Valentin Metzinger (1699-1759), Oil On Canvas, c. 18th century
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