Scottish Country Dancing Dictionary

Turn By The Left Halfway

To Turn by the left halfway two Scottish Country Dancers Take Left hands and proceed round each other in the natural direction (anticlockwise), Finishing with their Positions interchanged.
Here are examples of those Scottish Country Dances for which we have instructions on this site and in which the term, Turn by the left 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:

Birkie Lads
Farewell To Fife
Forth Frolics
Irish Rover
James Gray
Let's Have A Ceilidh
Reel Of The Royal Scots
Space Coaster
Travelling Dancers
Wee Cooper O' Fife


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Additional search terms: ½ Turn LH (MiniCrib).