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
After the break
Silver Tassie 32 S
The Morrison Measure 32 R
The Chequered Court 32 J
Shiftin Bobbins 32 R
02 December 2021
25 November 2021
18 November 2021
New dancers course Week 6
Social dancing
The Provost Wynd 8x32R
Hands round and back, a circle
Monymusk 8x32S
Staircase in Styria 5x40R
11 November 2021
New dancers course Week 5
After the break
Crossing reels
Last of the Lairds 8x32J
Cherrybank Gardens 3x32S
The Rutland Reel 8x40R
4 November 2021
28 October 2021
Social dancing
Fife Hunt (Wedderburns Reel) 8x32R
The Adelaide Strathspey 4x32S
Flight to Melbourne 4x32R
21 October 2021
New dancers course Week 2
R hands across, L hands across
Turn right hand, turn left hand
The Merry Reapers (a Jig)
The Linton Ploughman (a Jig)
Social dancing
Turn right hand, turn left hand
Galloway House 8x32R
Strathspey poussette all round
Minister on the Loch 3x32S
Jennifer's Jig 8x32J
14 October 2021