Willie Shaw
Scottish Country Dance Instruction
Willie Shaw A thirty-two bar Strathspey for four couples in a circle round the room. First and third couples facing clockwise and second and fourth couples facing anticlockwise, each man with his partner on his right; first and fourth couples are on the left of each line and the third and second on the right of each line., devised by John W Mitchell, Published in Whetherly Book 8.1- 4 All advance and retire.
5-12 First and second couples dance a ladies' chain; third and fourth couples do the same.
13-16 All advance and retire.
17-20 First lady, second man, fourth lady and third man dance half rights and lefts to change partners.
21-24 First man, second lady, third man and fourth lady dance right hands across in a wheel; first lady, second man, third lady and fourth man do the same.
25-28 First man, fourth lady, second man and third lady dance a half a reel of four; second lady, third man, first lady and fourth man do the same.
29-32 First lady, second man, third lady and fourth man dance half rights and lefts; first man, second lady, third man and fourth lady do the same; to finish all the men dance polite turns so that each line finishes back to back with the line which it has just danced with, facing a new line, ready to repeat. Finish with (from left to right): second man, third lady, first man and fourth lady facing clockwise; third man, second lady, fourth man and first lady facing anticlockwise. Recommended tune: Willie Shaw
(Dance crib reproduced from The Whetherly Book Of Scottish Country Dances, revised and republished by Alison Mitchell)
Keith Rose's Crib Diagram
Published in The Whetherly Book Of Scottish Country Dances Number 8, 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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