Dance Pop! Goes The Weasel 17417
See also: Pop Goes the Weasel (S16, 4/4L, Complete guide)
Jig · 32 bars · 3 couples · Longwise - 4 (Progression: 213)
- Devised by
- Reuben Freemantle
- Intensity
- 800/844/888/844 = 50% (whole dance)
- Formations
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- Figure of Eight - half (FIG8;1C;HALF;)
- Reel of four - diagonal - half (REEL;DIAG;HALF;R4;)
- Weasel Reel (REEL;WEASL;)
- Steps
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- Skip-Change
- Online Sources
- Recommended Music
- Extra Info
- An arrangement of the nursery rhyme tune would be eminently suitable as the name-tune for this dance. (For details see: …
An arrangement of the nursery rhyme tune would be eminently suitable as the name-tune for this dance. (For details see: Scottish Country Dancing Dictionary)
Pop! Goes The Weasel 3/4L · J32
- 1–
- 1c cast off (2c up) | ½ Fig8 R LSh round 1cnrs ; turn LH and finish in centre LSh to P facing 2cnrs
- 9–
- ½ Reel4 on 2diag, pass P LSh ; ½ Reel4 on 1diag, 1c finishing in centre LSh to P, 1M(1W) facing up(down) (3x,1x,2x)
- 17–
- “Weasel Reel” [: ½ Reel4 on midline. Dancers entering (3W & 2M to start) and leaving the reel (1M & 1W to start) pass RSh, on reaching the end each dancer chases clw to the other end, and is replaced in the reel4 by a dancer finishing that chase]. Finish as started except 1c who finish as on [8]
- 25–
- Repeat same pattern [9–16] to sides (2,1,3)
