Waverley (Fergus McIver)
Scottish Country Dance Instruction
WAVERLEY (Fergus McIver) (J8x48) 3C (4C set) Button And Whitaker RSCDS Book 151- 8 1L followed by 2L +3L cross and dance down behind 1+2+3M cross and dance back to places
9-16 1M+2M+3M repeat dancing round behind Ladies back to place
17-24 1M+2M also 1L+2L, set to each other and change places RH, set and change back LH ready for...
25-32 1s+2s dance Poussette, 1s end BtoB in centre facing own sides ready for Double Triangles
33-40 1s dance Double Triangles and end side by side facing out on Ladies' side between 2L+3L
41-48 1s lead out between 2L+3L, cast 1L up and 1M down, meet in middle and lead out between 2M+3M, 1s cast 1L up and 1M down to end in 2nd place own sides
(MINICRIB. Dance crib compiled by Charles Upton, Deeside Caledonian Society, and his successors)
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Both dance names for this dance, Waverley and Fergus McIvor, were the main characters in the novel Waverley (or Tis Sixty Years Since) by Walter Scott (1771-1832).Scott was already famous as a poet, and chose to publish it anonymously in 1814 as his first venture into prose fiction (Scott admitted that he was "the author of Waverley" at a public dinner in 1827).
Edward Waverley, an English gentleman of honour, chooses an occupation in the army at the time just before the Jacobite uprising of 1745 on advice of his father. He has an officer's commission.
On leave from army training, he visits friends of his family in Scotland, as he is not far from their place. He enjoys their Scottish hospitality. His head is full of the romantic notions of his unstructured education, including much reading, and he is startled to find himself in the midst of loyalists who support the return of the House of Stuart and the Stuart prince, known as Bonnie Prince Charlie and the Young Chevalier to his supporters and as the Younger Pretender to his foes.
His honour is often challenged as others interfere to push him to the Stuart side, where he is in battle, and he meets two women with whom he falls in love in turn, until he chooses one. His gentlemanly actions gain him friends in this precarious situation, on both sides of the uprising, who stand him in good stead when he is at risk from his own government when the uprising is put down.
"Walter Scott, Waverley", John Pettie (painter, 1839-1893), F. Huth (engraver), illustrated print edition, c. 1893
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