Dances for February 21, 2013

We currently don't have a program for the March social. As a result we are going to do some dances from the ball program that haven't been covered yet this year.

Also, we will indulging the teachers this week and doing Jeannie o' the Witchin' E'e. I have been asked to teach at the West End Workshop (west end of Toronto) and hope to do this dance in one of the classes.If you are in the Toronto area on March 23 you can come and dance.

You can download the cribs for the ball here: RSCDS Ottawa Ball 2013

Video: Jeannie o' the Witchin' E'e

This is a demonstration where they are starting from both ends.

Jeannie o' the Witchin' E'e
(Jig)

1-4    1st woman advances to partners and sets to him
5-6    1st woman dances round behind 2nd man and faces him
7-8    1st woman sets to 2nd man

9-12    1st woman gives right hand to partner then left hand to 2nd man and all three set twice.
13-16    1st woman turns partner under his right arm to finish in allemande position facing 2nd woman. 2nd couple step up on bars 15-16

17-22    1st couple dance a figure of eight round 2nd couple, passing  2nd woman with right shoulder to begin.
23-24    1st man turns his partner under his right arm to finish back to back in the middle of the set, 1st man facing 2nd woman and 1st woman facing 2nd man, ready for a reel of four.

25-32    1st and 2nd couple dance a reel of four across the dance, 1st couple finish facing each other in the middle having passed each other with the right shoulders.

33-40    1st couple set twice then turn one and a half times with the right hand to finish on own sides in second place.

Repeat having passed a couple

Dedicated to my friend Miss Jean Milligan

Collected originally in Ayrshire but gifted by Mrs Fassiefern Bain of Vancouver, late of Appin, daughter of the Rev. W. Stewart, Nether Lochaber

RSCDS: Scottish Dances collected by Mary Isdal MacNab



Video: The Lea Rig

The Lea Rig
RSCDS Book 21 - No. 5
32-bar strathspey for two couples in a four-couple longwise set

1 – 16    1st couple dance a petronella turn to face each other up and down the middle and set. 1 st  couple repeat this three times to finish in original places. On bars 1-2, 2nd couple step up and, on bars 3-4 set. 2nd couple dance petronella turns and set, following the 1st couple one place behind. On bars 15-16, instead of setting, 2nd couple dance a petronella turn to original places.

17 – 24    1st couple lead down the middle and up.

25 – 28    1st and 2nd couples dance right hands across once round to finish facing partners in a diagonal line across the set with 1st woman and 2nd man back to back in the middle.

29 – 32    1st and 2nd couples dance a half poussette.

Repeat, having passed a couple.

Collected from an old MS.
Original tune:  The Lea Rig  (Surenne)

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TACNotes:’
17-24    1st cpl finish in original places on sidelines.





Video: Mary Erskine

MARY ERSKINE
15 Social Dances devised by Roy Goldring

32 bar hornpipe for 3 couples

1 – 4    First and second women turn 1 ½ times with left hands to change places while first and second men turn 1 ½ times with right hands. First couple finish facing out.
5 – 8    First couple dance down behind third couple, meet and dance up to second place finishing back to back (facing own side) ready for : -

9 – 16    Double triangles - on bars 15-16, as first couple set, they turn right about to face each other, still in the centre.

17 – 24    First couple, joining both hands, slip down the middle and up to second place, remaining in the centre of the dance.

25 – 28    First woman dances left hands across with second and third men while first man dances right hands across with second and third women.
29 – 32    First couple dance a half figure of eight round second couple to finish in             second place on own sides.

Repeat having passed a couple.

To celebrate the tercentenary of Mary Erskine School, 1994.

Tune : - Shuter’s Hornpipe – trad. from Kohler’s Violin Repository