The Windy Lane

Scottish Country Dance Instruction

1-4 Third couple turn with left hands one round.
3-6 Second couple turn with left hands one round.
5-8 First couple turn with left hands one round.
9-16 First and second couples dance a Birl (or Bourelle). The turning couple should use pas de Basque and two hands. On bars 15-16 first and second couples half turn with both hands and pas de basque to finish facing partner in a line of four up and down the middle.
17-24 Second and first couples dance a reel of four up and down the middle passing partner by right shoulders to begin. At the end of the reel second man and first woman pass by right shoulders.
25-32 Second, first and third couples dance six hands round and back.

Repeat having passed a couple.

(Dance crib compiled by the deviser Rod Downey, Johnsonville SCD Club Tutor)

Keith Rose's Crib Diagrams

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Dance Information

The title was suggested by leaves swirling along a Titahi Bay street, Wellington, New Zealand, in a strong southerly.

Bars 1-8 represent the swirling leaves.

Suitable music - "The Inverness Country Dance" recorded by The Ron Gonnella Strings with George MacIlwham on "The Lad O' Kyle" (AB 008), side 1, track 7.

(Dance information from The Cane Toad Collection Of Scottish Country Dances, reproduced here with the kind permission of the deviser, Rod Downey)

Titahi Bay, Wellington, New Zealand

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