This class should prove to be an interesting class. We have discovered that some of the dancers are attending the RSCDS Kingston Branch workshop. We will cover a few of the basic dances from that program this week and next.
The first will be The Deil Amang the Tailors. A perennial favorite and a good one for newer dancers to learn. The first 8 bars is a bit quick and the music has a frantic feel to it. Should be fun.
This is the second week for strathspey. We will be teaching From the Broomielaw off the Kingston program.It is one we would not normally teach to beginners. Not because it is difficult but because it has a four couple allemande. You can probably count on one hand the number of dances that have a four couple allemande. Just not very transferable to other dances.
If time permits we will add St. Andrews Fair to the evening. An basic dance that should set the dancers at ease after the first two.
Here are the dance descriptions
FROM THE BROOMIELAW
STRATHSPEY FOR FOUR COUPLES
Teachers’ Association of Canada, Silver Anniversary Dances
BARS
1 – 4 1st woman with 2nd man change places giving right hands and cast back to place, 1st woman up behind 1st man and 2nd man down behind 2nd woman. 3rd woman and 4th man dance similarly.
5 – 8 1st couple with 2nd couple, 3rd couple with 4th couple dance four hands round to the left.
9 – 12 1st man and 2nd woman change places giving left hands and cast back to place, 1st man up behind 1st woman and 2nd woman down behind 2nd man. 3rd man and 4th woman dance similarly
13 – 16 1st couple with 2nd couple, 3rd couple with 4th couple dance four hands round to the right.
17 – 24 1st couple lead down middle for four steps and then followed by 4th, 3rd and 2nd couples, lead back up staying in centre (1, 4, 3, 2) to begin
25 – 32 Four couple Allemande, finishing 2, 3, 4, 1.
Repeat with new top couple.
Devised by Anna Holden for the T. A. C. Silver Anniversary, 1983
Proceeds from the sale of this dance will go to the T. A. C. Scholarship Fund.
The Deil amang the Tailors
32-bar reel for three couples in a four-couple longwise set
Book 14 – No. 7
Bars Description
1 – 4 1st and 2nd couples set to partners and dance right hands across halfway round.
5 – 8 2nd and 1st couples set to partners and dance left hands across halfway round to original places.
9 – 16 1st couple lead down the middle and up to finish in the middle of the set facing up. 2nd couple step in.
17 – 24 1st and 2nd couples dance an allemande.
25 – 32 2nd, 1st and 3rd couples dance six hands round and back.
Repeat, having passed a couple.
Dale’s Collection of Reels and Dances c. 1799.
Original tune: The Deil amang the Tailors (Gow)
ST. ANDREW’S FAIR
(Jig)
Five Scottish Country Dances No. 2
MUSIC DESCRIPTION
Bars
1 – 8 1st couple cross over giving right hands, cast off two places, cross over below 3rd couple giving left hands and cast up to second place on own side. 2nd couple step up bars 3–4.
9 – 12 2nd, 1st and 3rd couple turn partner with right hand half-way round, retaining hold of hands with women facing up, men facing down, all three couples set.
13 – 16 2nd woman, followed by 1st and 3rd women, dances across the set then down her own side line. Similarly, 3rd man, followed by 1st and 2nd men, dances across the set then up his own side line. (Order now 3, 1, 2).
17 – 24 3rd, 1st and 2nd couples six hands round and back.
25 – 32 Repeat bars 9–16, but all turn partner with left hand. After the setting, the 2nd woman and 3rd man lead their lines in an anti-clockwise direction back to their own side lines.
Repeat having passed a couple.
Devised by R. Goldring, 1980.
Tune: Jockey’s Dance
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