Dance: The Black Bear Country Dance

32-bar Reel
4 couples
Set shape: Longwise - 4

Devised by:

Alec Hay (1962)

Formations:

Rights and Lefts - half (R&L;HALF;)
Reel of four - half (REEL;HALF;R4;)
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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:

Skip-Change
Highland
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Published in:

Twelve SCD (Book 6) [11] *

Recordings (1): Show tunes

Argyll's Fancy (Iain MacPhail and his Scottish Dance Band), track 8 [pace 32.0]

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