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What We Dance

The steps and formations we learn in the new dancers' class and the dances we enjoy each evening are shown below so you can refresh your memory. Thanks to Lower Hutt SCD Club in New Zealand for excellent videos of formations.

If you want other videos or the cribs and diagrams, click the links for My Strathspey or Scottish Country Dance Dictionary and search for the dance by name.

Links to formations are in blue, links to dances are in green.

06 January 2022     Social dancing to welcome the New Year

New dancers course

starts

13 January 2022

02 December 2021

New dancers course Week 8

Skip change of step

Rights and lefts

The Barmkin   88R Sq

Grand chain

The Bunting Bee   32S

After the break

John Cass   5x32J

Snake pass

Slytherin House  8x32S

The Luckenbooth Brooch  32J

Catch the Wind 8x32R

25 November 2021

Social dancing

Allemande for 3 couples

Lady Glasgow 8x32S

Promenade

EH3 7AF  8x32J

Set and rotate

A Capital Jig  8x32J

After the break

Crossing reels (no video)

Last of the Lairds   8x32R

Strathspey pousette

The Minister on the Loch 32S

 

Alternating tandem reels

Pelorus Jack  8x32J

14 October 2021

New dancers course Week 1

Skip change of step

Slip step         Cast  

Lead Down and Up         

Hands round and back (a circle)

Charlestown Chaser  (a Jig)

After the break

Corners pass and turn

Moment of Truth   8x32S 

Trip to Timber Ridge  8x32R 

EH3 7AF   8x32J

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