Thanks To Daniel

Scottish Country Dance Instruction

THANKS TO DANIEL (R8x40) 3C (4C set) Murrough Landon

1- 8 1s turn RH, cast off 2 or more places and dance up to 2nd place in centre nearer hands joined facing 2L (2s step up on 3-4)
9-16 1s dance diagonal RSh Hand-in-Hand reel of 3 with 2nd corners. At each end of the reel 1s drop nearer hands, each pull RSh back (bar 2) or LSh back (bar 6) and take nearer hands to continue the reel
17-24 1s repeat with 1st corners starting LSh to 2M. 1s end in middle facing up
25-32 1s dance up, cast, meet, dance down and cast up to 2nd place own side while 2s+3s dance L&R starting LH on the sides
33-40 All circle 6H to the left and back. 213

(MINICRIB. Dance crib compiled by Charles Upton, Deeside Caledonian Society, and his successors)

Thanks To Daniel (Daniel's Weddings) (R8x40) 40 bar reel for three couples in a four couple longwise set, Devised By Murrough Landon, 2025.

1-8 1st couple turn with the right hand, then cast off (at least) two places, dance in below any couple and dance up to 2nd place, staying in the centre. 2nd couple step up on bars 3-4.
9-16 1st couple dance a diagonal hand-in-hand reel of three with their 2nd corners, starting right shoulder to 2nd woman. As they loop round the corner on bars 2 and 6 of the reel, 1st couple drop nearer hands, each loop to the right (or left) as if dancing the reel on their own, then join nearer hands again to come into the centre and continue the reel.
17-24 1st couple repeat with their 1st corners, starting left shoulder to 2nd man. 1st couple end facing up, with nearer hands still joined, in the centre in 2nd place.
25-32 1st couple dance out of the top, separate and cast away from each other to 2nd place on their own side, then dance down and cast up around 3rd place to end in 2nd place on their own side.
Meanwhile the corners dance lefts and rights, starting on the sides and ending with a half right hand turn, staying in from the sides, ready to form a circle.
33-40 All circle six hands round to the left and back. The final order is 2,1,3.

(Dance crib compiled by the deviser, Murrough Landon, CC BY-SA April 2025)

Dance Notes

Hand-in-hand reels appear in many dances by Duncan and Maggie Keppie.

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Dance Information

This dance is for Daniel Capron with many thanks for starting the Gay Gordons group in London in October 2005 and for encouraging me to go along to the first class.

This has led me to an enduring love of Scottish Country Dancing. My subsequent involvement in dancing, teaching, devising dances and helping to maintain the Strathspey Database (SCDDB) is ultimately all thanks to Daniel.

Daniel liked dances which have symmetry, such as Mairi's Wedding, and the subtitle reflects his own two weddings to other men. Daniel was very pleased that recent RSCDS guidelines now acknowledge that dancers may like to dance with anyone on either side of the set.

Recommended music: Suggested tune: To be decided; suitable recording 8x40 Reels (Liz Donaldson and David Knight: Waverley Station - First Stop!).

(Dance information by the deviser, Murrough Landon, CC BY-SA April 2025)

Daniel Capron

Published in Thanks To Daniel, reproduced here with the kind permission of the deviser, Murrough Landon, CC BY-SA.
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