Stoney Path Tower
Scottish Country Dance Instruction
Stoney Path Tower A thirty-two bar Jig for four couples in a longwise set, devised by John W Mitchell, published in Whetherly Book 7.1- 4 First and second couples dance four hands round to the left in a circle, third and fourth do the same.
5- 6 All join hands on the sides and slip to the left for four steps.
7- 8 All slip to the right for four steps.
9-12 First and second couples dance four hands round to the right in a circle, third and fourth do the same.
13-14 All join hands on the sides and slip to the right for four steps.
15-16 All slip to the left for four steps.
17-18 First couple crosses to second place on the opposite side to face out, second couple step up.
19-24 First, third and fourth couples dance reels of three on the sides, third couple dance in and up to commence.
25-26 First couple cast into third place, third couple step up.
27-28 First couple lead down to fourth place.
29-30 First couple cast up into third place, still on opposite sides.
31-32 First couple cross back to fourth place on own side, fourth couple step up.
Repeat with new top couple.
Recommended tune: Stoney Path Tower
Editor's note to the 2022 This dance was originally labeled as "Reel". As the recommended tune is a jig, and hence all recordings are also in Jig time, we felt it appropriate to change the dance type to "Jig" as well.
(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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