Dance Brockbank's Drowning 15343
Jig · 32 bars · 3 couples · Longwise - 4 (Progression: 213)
- Devised by
- Gillian Jennings
- Intensity
- 800/888/888/888 = 63% (whole dance)
- Formations
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- Hands across - 3 (HX;3P;)
- Snake Pass (SNAKE)
- Reel of three - across - half (REEL;ACROSS;HALF;R3;)
- Steps
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- Pas-de-Basque, Skip-Change
- Published in
- Extra Info
- The idea for this dance came from an inscription on a bridge over the river Tay which joins the villages …
The idea for this dance came from an inscription on a bridge over the river Tay which joins the villages of Strathtay and Grandtully. It is a memorial to Charles Brockbank a man from Birmingham who drowned in the river in 1873. He was possibly one of the first canoeing tourists and still the only one to drown in the river which runs rapidly and dangerously under the bridge.
Brockbank's Drowning 3/4L · J32
- 1–
- 1c set | cross RH ; cast (2c up) | turn LH ¾, Lsh to P facing opposite side (2,1,3)
- 9–
- 1W+2c & 1M + 3c RHA ; Lsh “Snake Pass” [[unwind the RHA, 1c leading, pass other snake Lsh through 2plx and chase cclw], 1c Rsh to P facing opposite side (3x,1,2x)
- 17–
- 1W+2c & 1M + 3c LHA ; Rsh “Snake Pass” [[unwind the LHA, 1c leading, pass other snake Rsh through 2plx and chase clw], (2,1,3)
- 25–
- ½ Reels3 across, Rsh to 2cnrs ; ½ Reels3 across, Rsh to 4cnrs[pos] (2,1,3)
