For the next two classes before the Christmas dance we will be reviewing dances. There will be no new material for the rest of the season. Hopefully, some of this will be familiar.
We will also be trying to cover difference dances before and after the break. The dances after the break should be easy enough.
Here are the dances for this week.
Happy Christmas!
CATCH THE WIND
(Hornpipe)
Book 45. No. 5
Bars Description
1 – 4 1st couple set and cast off one place. 2nd couple step up on bars 3 - 4.
5 – 8 1st couple dance a half figure of eight round 2nd couple.
9 – 12 1st couple set twice. On bars 11-12, 1st woman pulls back right shoulder to finish facing out.
13 – 16 1st woman casts up round 2nd man and dances down to finish between 3rd couple facing 3rd man while 1st man dances across the set and casts up round 2nd man to finish between 2nd couple facing 2nd man.
17 – 24 1st man dances a reel of three with 2nd couple passing 2nd man by the right shoulder to begin while 1st woman dances a reel of three with 3rd couple passing 3rd man by the right shoulder to begin.
25 – 28 1st woman casts up round 3rd man and dances across the set to finish in second place on own side while 1st man dances down the middle and casts up round 3rd man to finish in second place on own side.
29 – 32 1st couple turn with the right hand once round.
Repeat, having passed a couple.
Devised by Romaine Butterfield, RSCDS New Zealand Branch and originally published by that branch in Island Bay Collection (1983). The dance was devised for Noeline O’Connor and Iain Boyd and the name refers to the fact that Iain courted Noeline for some time.
Tune: The Navvie, Traditional
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TACNotes:’
Bars 25-28 1st woman must lengthen her steps to reach 2nd place, own side, pulling back R shoulder to flow into bar 29.
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)
ALLT AN DUIN (THE BURN BY THE HILLOCK)
24 GRADED and SOCIAL DANCES, Devised by Roy Goldring, Leeds Branch R.S.C.D.S.
32 bar reel for 3 couples
Bars
1 – 8 First couple cross over giving right hands and cast off below second couple (who stand still); cross over giving left hands and cast up to place.
9 – 16 Reels of three on own sides. To begin, first couple dance in and down, second couple dance out and up, third couple dance in and up.
17 – 24 First couple dance down the middle (4 steps), set to each other and dance up. They finish in the centre of the dance in second place, facing up. Second couple step up on bars 19 – 20.
25 – 28 First woman dances right hands across with second and third women while first man dances left hands across with second and third men.
29 – 32 First couple dance up to the top and cast off to second place on own side.
Repeat having passed a couple.
Recommended tune:- Jessie Walker (M.A.J.)
Palnackie
32 bar Jig for dancers in lines of 3 facing another line of 3 around the room
1-4 The dancers in the center of the line dance right hands across with the two dancers on their right.
5-8 The center dance around the corner on their right
9-12 centers dance left hands across with their two parters
13-16 centers dance left shoulder around the partner that was on their left
17-24 outside dancers advance and retire and turn with the right hand
25-30 all dancers chase clockwise around the set. All pass the dancer the are facing right shoulder and meet a new line of three dancers
