Welcome to the class on November 4. Tonight we will not be joining with the intermediates after the break. The intermediates will be joined by the Experienced dancers.
We will be covering a few more dances from the Kingston Ball program. There are four dances included here but we don't expect to get through all of them. If the number of dancers work out we will do The Barmkin which is in a square set. Something new for the class. All the dances are popular dances and well worth learning.
See you tonight
The Reel of the 51st Division
Book 13 – No. 10
32-bar reel for three couples in a four-couple longwise set
Bars Description
1 – 8 1st couple set to each other and cast off two places, meet below 3rd couple and lead up the middle to face first corners. 2nd couple step up on bars 3-4.
9 – 12 1st couple set to and turn first corners with the right hand, finishing in a diagonal line by joining left hands with partner.
13 – 14 1st couple and first corners balance in line.
15 – 16 1st couple, releasing right hands with corners, turn each other one and a quarter times to face second corners.
17 – 22 1st couple repeat bars 9-14 with second corners.
23 – 24 1st couple cross to second place on own sides.
25 – 32 2nd, 1st and 3rd couples dance six hands round and back.
Repeat, having passed a couple.
Devised by Jimmy Atkinson, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, and Peter Oliver, Seaforth Highlanders (London Scottish), with advice from Tom Harris-Hunter, Royal Army Service Corps while all were interned in the Prisoner of War camp at Laufen in Germany.
Original tune: The Drunken Piper or Highland Rory Alex. McLeod, c. 1880
The original instructions in the form of notes, written by Tom Harris-Hunter on a scruffy piece of paper when he was a prisoner of war, clearly show that the dance was intended for a five couple set as it is still danced in Perthshire.
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TACNotes:’
1-8 Set (no stealing) bars 1-2, cast bars 3-5, dance in to meet on bar 6, lead up on bar 7 to face corners on bar 8.
Highland Fair
RSCDS Graded Book
32 bar Jig for 2 couples
Bars
1 – 8 First couple cast off and dance down behind own line for 4 skip change of step, turn outwards and dance four steps back to place.
9 – 16 First and second couples turn partner with right hand and return to place – 4 skip change of step, then repeat, giving left hand.
17 – 24 First couple, followed by second couple, lead down the middle for 4 skip change of step. Second couple, followed by first couple, lead up the middle to finish second couple at top and first couple in second place. (Figs. 1 and 2.)
25 – 32 First and second couples dance right and left.
Repeat, having passed a couple.
THE BARMKIN
88 bar reel for 4 couples in a square set
24 GRADED and SOCIAL DANCES, Devised by Roy Goldring, Leeds Branch R.S.C.D.S.
Bars
1 – 8 First and third couples turn partners once round with right hands to finish facing clockwise.
5 – 8 First and third couples (men leading) dance half-way round the outside of the set to change places.
9 – 16 First and third couples dance right hands across and back with left hands to return to “new” places.
17 – 32 Second and fourth couples repeat bars 1 – 16 .
33 – 36 First and third couples turn partners once round with left hands to finish facing anti-clockwise.
37 – 40 First and third couples (women leading) dance half-way round the outside of the set to original places.
41 – 48 First and third couples dance rights and lefts.
49 – 64 Second and fourth couples repeat bars 33 – 48.
65 – 66 Joining nearer hands with partner, all advance towards the centre.
67 – 68 Joining nearer hands with corner person, all retire to “diagonal” positions.
69 – 72 All four women dance round their corners, passing in front to begin.
73 – 76 Similar to bars 65 – 68; all advancing with corners and retiring with partners to original places.
77 – 80 All four men dance round their partners, passing in front to begin.
81 – 88 Eight hands round and back.
Recommended tune:- The Landlady of Inver Inn (Neil 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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