Dance Quarries' Procession 16887
Reel · 40 bars · 4 couples · Longwise - 4 (Progression: 3142)
- Devised by
- Murrough Landon (2015)
- Intensity
- 8008/8888/8884/8668/8228 = 77% (whole dance)
- Formations
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- Hands across - 4 - half (HX;4P;HALF;)
- Balance in Line (BALNCE)
- Reel of three - promenade hold - half (REEL;PRMHLD;R3;HALF;)
- Hands across - 3 (HX;3P;)
- Hands across - 4 - half (HX;4P;HALF;)
- Steps
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- Pas-de-Basque, Skip-Change
- Published in
- Online Sources
- Extra Info
- A challenging farewell for David and Avril Quarrie on the occasion of their moving from Geneva back to the Hamburg …
A challenging farewell for David and Avril Quarrie on the occasion of their moving from Geneva back to the Hamburg area where they first met.
Notes from the book:
The dance includes St Andrews and St Georges cross figures, then the 1st couple make a metaphorical procession around the four corners of the globe dancing with various people for a while and then moving on to a new corner. This is supposed to reflect the Scottish and English backgrounds of Avril and David respectively and their successive sojourns in or near Hamburg (the centre) then Virginia, Chicago, San Francisco, Geneva and finally returning to Hamburg, continually meeting new friends but sadly leaving old ones behind - after the old friends have been trained up to be better dancers!
The dance starts with a little broken symmetry, appropriate for a particle physicist, as the men and women do something slightly different and it ends with the 1st couple finally getting to dance more with each other, turning RH into retirement to their new home in 2nd place while their most recent friends, the 4s, spiral out singly to 3rd place.
| Name | Artist | Album | Media | Trk | Type | Time | Pace | Clip |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Callum Dewar's Reel | Colin Dewar and his Scottish Dance Band | Special Requests Volume 7 | CD | 5 | R40 4 | 3:09 | 37.8 |
Quarries' Procession 4/4L · R40
- 1–
- 1c+4c cross RH | cast inwards, W 1 place, M 2 places passing RSh ; 1c+4c set | ½ LHA to St Andrew’s cross
- 9–
- BiL | ½ RH turn and move on 1/8 place to St George’s cross ; BiL | 1M+2W & 1W+3M ½ RH turn into prom hold, 1c on L facing 3cnr pos while{2} 4M+2M & 4W+3W ½ RH turn & dance up/down to lines across
- 17–
- ½ RSh Reel3 across to 1M+2W & 1W+3M facing 4th cnr pos ; 1M+2W+3W & 1W+3M+2M LHA, 1c changing prom partner to 3W/2M, 1c still on L facing 1cnr pos
- 25–
- ½ RSh Reel3 across to 1M+3W & 1W+2M facing 2cnr pos ; 1M+3W+4W & 1W+2M+4M LHA, 1c end in centre RHJ across with P & 4c RHJ up/down with P
- 33–
- 1c+4c ½ RHA | 1c RH turn moving up to 2pl while{4} 4c spiral around them to 3pl | all set (3,1,4,2)
Watch on YouTube
(YouTube must be enabled in cookie preferences to embed videos.)Gay Gordons at Laurieston, 2015.
Added on: 2016-03-01 (Murrough Landon)
Quality: Reasonable
| Name | Date | Owner | Last changed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cambridge RonDancing 2024-03-03 | 2024-03-03 | Murrough Landon | Feb. 25, 2024, 8:58 p.m. |
| 181119 The More Unusual Dance Club | 2018-11-19 | Peter Dixon | Nov. 19, 2018, 2:02 p.m. |
