Scottish Country Dancing Dictionary

Right Hands Across Halfway

In Right hands across halfway, 3, 4 or more Scottish Country Dancers join right hands in the centre to form a Star, Face clockwise and Dance round with a Travelling Step, normally for 2 bars and normally Finishing diagonally opposite the Place in which they started the Figure.
Here are examples of those Scottish Country Dances for which we have instructions on this site and in which the term, Right hands across halfway, either appears explicitly or is implied; note that for a common term these will be a small selection; for a rare term, these may be all that exist:

Airie Bennan
Ballindalloch
Company At The Manor
Hamilton's Strathspey
Hutton Castle
Lomondside
Shawlands Cross
Storybook Glen
Turnberry Tensome
Unit 5


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Additional search terms: ½ RH across, RH across ½ way.