Vera Hughes' Fancy
Scottish Country Dance Instruction
Vera Hughes' Fancy A thirty-two bar Reel for trios of one men and two ladies in a circle round the room: ladies facing clockwise and men facing anticlockwise so that the men are facing their partners. Devised by John W Mitchell, Published in Whetherly Book 13.1- 4 First man sets to his right hand partner and changes places with her giving right hand.
5- 8 The two ladies set and change places giving left hand.
9-12 The original left hand lady and the man set and change places giving right hand, retaining right hand the man joins left hand with the other lady.
13-16 All set twice.
17-24 All dance right hands across in a wheel and back with the left hand.
25-30 Reel of three, the man passing the lady on his right by the right shoulder to commence, at the end ladies join nearer hand to make an arch.
31-32 All advance, men dancing under arch.
Repeat with new partners. Recommended tune: Vera Hughes' Fancy
(Dance crib reproduced from The Whetherly Book Of Scottish Country Dances, revised and republished by Alison Mitchell)
Published in The Whetherly Book Of Scottish Country Dances Number 13, 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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