The Suitor
Scottish Country Dance Instruction
The Suitor 32-bar strathspey for three couples in a three-couple longwise set, Devised By Holger Schuckelt, Published In Riverside Dances, 20131- 4 1st couple, giving right hands, cross down one place and then cast up to first place on opposite sides
5- 8 1st couple, giving left hands, cross down one place and then cast up to original places
9-16 All dance mirror reels of three on own sides
(1st and 2nd men pass by the right to begin while 1st and 2nd women pass by the left)
17-24 1st and 2nd couples set and rotate
25-32 1st and 3rd couples dance the tournée:
(1st and 3rd couples dance into promenade hold [men with partner on the right, 1st couple face men's side and 3rd couple face women's side], couples wheel anticlockwise halfway and men turn women into the middle, both couples turn one and a half times [3rd couple by the right and 1st couple by the left] and dance out to places)
Repeat with a new top couple.
(Dance crib compiled by Geraldine and Holger Schuckelt, under the CCA NoDerivatives 4.0 International License, 2017)
Keith Rose's Crib Diagrams
Dance Information
Holger was inspired to devise this dance in August 2013 by a conversation about flirting in Scottish Country Dancing.The dancing couple repeatedly meet and separate, finally coming closer together in the tournée.
Recommended music: "The Courting Couple" by Stefan Schatz.
(Dance information by Geraldine and Holger Schuckelt, under the CCA NoDerivatives 4.0 International License, 2017)
Published in Riverside Dances, reproduced here under this Creative Commons Attribution - NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
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