Dance: May Yarker's Strathspey

32-bar Strathspey
3 couples
Set shape: Longwise - 4

Devised by:
Roy Goldring (1995)
Formations:
Figure of Eight - double (FIG8;2C;)
Hands across - 4 - half (HX;4P;HALF;)
Hands round - 4 (HR;4P;)
Knot 3 couples (KNOT;3C;)
Note: Due to limitations in the underlying data, the relative order of formations in this list may be different from the order of formations in the actual dance.
Steps:
Strathspey travel
Published in:
Book 42, to celebrate the 70th Summer School [5] *
Scottish Country Dances in Diagrams. Ed. 8 [120]
Recommended Music:
May Yarker's Strathspey (Muriel A Johnstone)
Recordings (1): Show tunes
Book 42. (Marian Anderson and her Band), track 5 [pace 62.8]

Crib

1-81C cross RH and face out | 1C+3C ¾ of a double fig8 round 2C, 3C crossing up to start (to 3,2,1)
9-162C+1C cross RH | ½ RHA ; 3C+1C repeat (to 1,3,2)
17-241C+3C circle4 L, finish 3C in the sidelines and 1C NHJ facing down ; 1C dance down between 3C and cast up to 2pl (3C up)
25-323C+1C+2C the Knot (to 2,1,3)
(Dedicated to May Yarker, awarded the RSCDS Scroll in 1995)
Crib needs checked · Source: Eric T. Ferguson ·

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