Video: Petronella
Beach Dancer
A 32 bar Jig for 3 couples in a 4 couple longwise set
For Margaret Blackhall, a teacher at Kamo Club who lives on the coast at Ngunguru.
Devised by Eddy West 2003.
1-4 First couple set and cross giving right hand.
5-8 First couple set to second couple and change places on the side giving left hands
(men remain facing out).
9-16 Second and first couples dance a ladies chain, first man finishes facing out.
First couple must continue into the next figure without hesitation.
17-20 First man casts down round third lady and crosses to third place, own side then casts up behind third man to second place, first lady follows to own side third place then dances up the middle to second place on own side.
21-24 First and second ladies, and at the same time first and second men, turn giving left hands.
25-32 Second, first and third couples dance reels of three on the sides, first couple passing third couple right shoulder to start.
Repeat having passed a couple
Suggested recorded music "Over the Pond II" - Sound Company CD "On Track".
Petronella
RSCDS Book 1 – No. 1
32-bar reel for two couples in a four-couple longwise set
Bars Description
1 – 2 1st couple dance a petronella turn, i.e. they dance a three-quarters turn, moving diagonally to their right into the middle of the set and pull back right shoulders to face partner.
3 – 4 1st couple set to each other.
5 – 16 1st couple repeat bars 1– 4 always moving to the right until they are back in original positions.
17 – 24 1st couple lead down the middle and up to finish facing each other in the middle of the set with both hands joined. 2nd couple step in.
25 – 32 1st and 2nd couples dance a poussette.
Repeat, having passed a couple.
Introduced at Nathaniel Gow’s Annual Ball in Edinburgh, 1820.
J P Boulogne: The Ball-Room or the Juvenile Pupil’s Assistant, Glasgow 1827.
Original tine: Petronella (Traditional)
Balmoral Strathspey (Strathspey)
RSCDS Book 22 – No. 3
MUSIC DESCRIPTION
Bars
1 – 8 First couple with second, and third couple with fourth, dance right and left.
9 – 12 First couple with second, and third couple with fourth, set and dance right hands across half way round.
13 – 16 All set, and, giving right hands in passing, cross to own sides. (The order is now 2, 1, 4, 3.)
17 – 24 Reels of four at the sides, second couple facing first, and fourth couple facing third. (Fig. 1.)
25 – 32 First, fourth and third couples allemande to finish, first couple at bottom, fourth couple in third, and third couple in second place. (Fig. 2.)
Repeat, with a new couple leading.
Devised by John A. Charles, Kawerau, New Zealand.
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The Manual of Scottish Country Dancing:
Bars 17-24 1st, 4th and 3rd couples should complete the reel in seven steps using the eight to dance towards partner for the allemande.
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TACNotes:’
17-24 1st, 4th & 3rd cpls dance reel in 7 bars &, on bar 24, dance into position for allemande.
The Wellingtonia Reel
12 Scottish Country Dances devised by Mervyn Short
32 bar Reel for 3 couples
Bars
1 – 4 1C & 2C set and link, 1M finish facing out.
5 - 8 1M, followed by partner, casts up and dances down the middle to finish facing 3M, 1W faces 2M.
9 – 16 1M with 3C and 1W with 2C dance reels of three across, passing right shoulders to begin; finish as started.
17 – 20 1M & 3M and 1W & 2M turn right hands.
21 - 24 1M & 3W and 1W & 2W turn left hands, 1C finish in the centre facing down, (1M between 3C, 1W between 2C).
25 – 28 1M followed by partner, casts up one place on men’s side and dances across to the opposite side in second place. 1W finishes in second place on the men’s side.
29 - 32 1C turn right hands one and a half times, to finish in second place own sides.
Repeat having passed a couple.
This dance was inspired by the magnificent Wellingtonia trees near Finchampstead, Berkshire which I regularly travel past on the way to class.
Tune: The Burnt Leg
McMARLEY’S CROSS 3S32
Rose and Thistle Book, of dances devised by Wigan Thistle Society
BARS
1 – 4 1st, 2nd and 3rd couples turn partner by the right hand once round.
5 – 8 1st, 2nd and 3rd couples turn partner by the left hand once round.
9 – 12 1st couple set and cast off one place. (2nd couple step up bars 11 &12.)
13 – 16 1st and 2nd couples dance right hands across.
17 – 20 1st couple set and cast off one place. (3rd couple step up bars 19 & 20.)
21 – 24 1st and 3rd couples dance left hands across.
25 – 32 2nd, 3rd and 1st couples dance a grand chain. (1st couple face 3rd couple and 2nd couple cross.)
Devised by – Lorna Grundy, Lisa Jones, Ailsa Longmuir, Rebecca Markey, Kathryn Parkinson, Katherine Small and Nicola Strachan, some of the Junior Members of the
Thistle Society, Wigan (1994)
Flowers of Edinburgh
RSCDS Book 1 – No. 6
32-bar reel for three couples in a four-couple longwise set
Bars Description
1 – 6 1st woman casts off two places, crosses to the opposite side and dances up behind 2nd and 3rd men to her partner’s original place. 1st man follows his partner, crossing over and dancing behind 2nd and 3rd women, and up the middle to his partner’s original place.
7 – 8 1st couple set to each other.
9 – 14 1st couple repeat bars 1-6, with 1st man casting off and 1st woman following. 1st couple finish in original places.
15 – 16 1st couple set to each other.
17 – 24 1st couple lead down the middle and up to finish facing each other in the middle of the set with both hands joined. 2nd couple step in.
25 – 32 1st and 2nd couples dance a poussette.
Repeat, having passed a couple.
Kate Hughes’ Dancing Book (MS), Dundalk 1867.
Original tune: Flowers of Edinburgh (Traditional)
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