Here are the dances. We are continuing to go over the dances on the Ottawa branch ball. We have also included a dance from the welcome dance.
THE WHITE HEATHER JIG
TWENTY-TWO SCOTTISH COUNTRY DANCES by JAMES B. COSH and TWO OTHERS
To the adapted music of the Six Twenty Two Step.
Music. Description.
Bars
1 – 4 First couple turn with right hand and cast off to second place. (Second couple step up.)
5 – 8 First couple turn with left hand 1½ times and finish back to back between second couple, first woman facing second man and first man facing second woman.
9 – 16 First and second couples a reel of four across (first couple pass right shoulder to finish facing first corner.)
17 – 24 Turn corner with right hand, partner with left hand, second corner with right hand and turn partner with left hand to finish back to back between third couple (first woman facing third man and first man the third woman.)
25 – 32 First and third couples a reel of four across, first man particularly a full reel of four. Third couple finish in second place, (First couple meet in centre between third and fourth couples.)
33 – 36 First couple turn with left hand and cast down on own side. (Fourth couple step up.)
37 – 40 First couple turn with right hand.
The Saltire Strathspey
Book 45. No. 4
(Strathspey)
Bars Description
1 – 4 1st man and 2nd woman, 3rd woman and 4th man turn with both hands one and a half times to change places.
5 – 8 All four men dance left hands across once round. Staying in the middle, all release left hands and, giving right hands to partner, all finish facing anticlockwise, nearer hands joined with partners.
9 – 12 All set and link to change places with partners.
13 – 16 All set and link finishing on the sidelines facing partners.
17 – 24 All dance reels of four on the sides.
25 – 28 1st woman and 2nd man, 4th woman and 3rd man turn with both hands one and a half times to change places, all finishing on opposite sides in the order 2,1,4,3.
29 – 30 2nd and 3rd couples, giving right hands, cross over while 1st and 4th couples dance left hands across halfway round finishing in the order 2,4,1,3.
31 – 32 All set to partners.
Repeat from new positions.
Devised by Barbara Anglin, RSCDS Ottawa Branch and originally published by that branch in A Gatineau Gathering (2001).
Tune: Blinkbonny, George Meikle
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TACNotes:’
Bars 1-4 1st man & 4th man finish facing in, anticipating the change of direction on bar 5.
Bars 11-12 Women dance well into middle to prevent spreading of set outwards at bar 16.
Bars 25-28 1st & 4th women finish similarly to bar 4.
Bratach Bana
THE BON ACCORD BOOK OF SCOTTISH COUNTRY DANCES by John Drewry
Reel - 3 couples - 32 bars
Tune - "Bratach Bana"
BARS
1.4 1st couple turn by the right hand and cast off to second place on own sides. (2nd couple move up on Bars 3 - 4)
5 – 8 1st man dances down between 3rd couple and then casts up to second place on the ladies' side. 1st lady dances up between 2nd couple and then casts off to second place on the men's side.
9 - 12 Half reels of three on the sides. 1st man gives right shoulder to 2nd lady, while 1st lady gives right shoulder to 3rd man.
13 – 16 Half reels of three across the dance. 1st man cuts up between 3rd couple who are in top place, giving left shoulder to 3rd man. 1st lady cuts down between 2nd couple who are in 3rd place, giving left shoulder to 2nd lady.
NOTE The 2nd and 3rd couples dance round loops on the corners between the half reels.
(1st couple are now in second place on own sides, 2nd couple are in third place on wrong sides, and 3rd couple are in top place on wrong sides).
17 – 18 1st couple turn each other with the left hand.
19 – 20 1st couple turn first corners (who are on the wrong sides) by the right hand.
21 – 22 1st couple pass each other by the right shoulder to face second corners.
23 – 24 1st couple turn second corners by the right hand and finish on own sides in second place retaining hold of second corners by the right hand and giving them left hands also in promenade hold.
25 – 26 1st couple lead their second corners diagonally across the dance, 1st man and 2nd lady passing above 1st lady and 3rd man.
27 - 28 Dropping left hands, 1st couple turn their second corners half-way round by the right hand, so that 1st couple finish in second place on wrong sides while their corners are in their proper places i.e. 2nd lady is in top place, and 3rd man in third place on own sides.**
29 - 30 1st man and 3rd lady change places giving right hands. 1st lady and 2nd man change places similarly.
31 - 32 1st and 2nd men, and 1st and 3rd ladies change places on the sides giving left hands. This last four bar figure is like half rights and lefts but on the diagonal, and 2nd man and 3rd lady do "polite" turns at the end.
Repeat, having passed a couple.
* * I am indebted to Derek Haynes for suggesting this improvement in the dance. Originally I had 1st couple and their second comers turning with two pas de basque, while retaining promenade hold.
The Moudiewort
RSCDS Book 11 – No. 7
32-bar jig for three couples in a four-couple longwise set
Bars Description
1 – 4 1st man and 2nd woman set advancing and, giving right hands, turn once round.
5 – 8 1st woman and 2nd man repeat bars 1-4.
9 – 16 1st couple lead down the middle and up and cast off one place. 2nd couple step up on bars 15-16.
17 – 20 1st couple dance down between 3rd couple, cast up one place and cross over to face first corners.
21 – 24 1st couple set to first corners and then to second corners.
25 – 30 2nd, 1st and 3rd couples dance reels of three on the sides. 1st couple pass second corners by the right to begin.
31 – 32 1st couple, giving right hands, cross over to second place on own sides.
Repeat, having passed a couple.
Bowman MS, c. 1755-1760.
Original tune: The Moudiewort (Oswald’s Caledonian Pocket Companion, 1752). Burns wrote the song An’o for ane an’ twenty to a version of this tune.
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