Scottish Country Dancing Dictionary

A Very Yorkshire Wedding

Scottish Country Dance Instruction

A VERY YORKSHIRE WEDDING (4x32) 4C Set Peter Holmes, 2025

1- 8 1s+2s also 3s+4s circle 4H round and back
9-16 All 4 couples advance and retire twice
17-24 1s slip down the middle 2 hands joined and back up to the top; bar 24: 1s remain in the middle, turn inwards and face down
25-28 2s+3s+4s make arch, 1s dance down under arch past 4th place, 1s cast up to 4th place own side while 2s+3s+4s retire diagonally moving up to 1st/2nd/3rd place. 2341
29-32 All 4 couples turn partner RH (or birl)

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


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