The Storrers
Scottish Country Dance Instruction
The Storrers A thirty-two bar Reel for two couples in a circle round the room, each man with his partner on his right, first couple facing clockwise, devised by John W Mitchell, Published in Whetherly Book 2.1- 8 Four hands round in a circle to the left and back to the right.
9-12 Retaining partner's hand, first and second couples set and change places giving right hand to turn half way. First man turns second lady and first lady turns second man.
13-16 Right hands across in a wheel.
17-20 The ladies retain right hands and the men cast into their original places to start a ladies half chain.
21-24 Retaining left hands dance left hands across in a wheel. First couple are now on the outside circle and second on the inside.
25-26 Joining nearer hand with the opposite lady all face partner and set.
27-28 All advance passing partner by the right to finish back to back.
29-30 All set, turning back to back half way (as in double triangles) to face in the opposite direction.
31-32 Joining nearer hands, each man with original opposite lady, all advance to meet next couple round the circle. The men are now facing in the original direction, having advanced one place and exchanged partners.
Repeat with new partners.
(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 2, 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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