Dance: The Ladies of Dunse
40-bar Reel
3 couples
Set shape: Longwise - 4
- Devised by:
- (unknown)
- Formations:
-
Figure of Eight (FIG8;1C;)
Rights and Lefts (R&L)
Set to Corners (C-SET)
Note: This list may be incomplete.
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
Pas-de-Basque
Note: This list may be incomplete.
- Published in:
-
Book 26
[11]
*
Pocket: Books 25,26,27
[23]
Scottish Country Dances in Diagrams. Ed. 7
[81]
Scottish Country Dances in Diagrams. Ed. 6
[77]
Scottish Country Dances in Diagrams. Ed. 8
[99]
- Recommended Music:
-
The Duchess of Buccleuch
(Niel Gow)
- Recordings (5):
Show tunes
-
Selected Scottish Country Dances
(Jim MacLeod and his Band),
track 9
Dances of Scotland Volume 3
(Olympians Scottish Dance Band),
track 8
Book 26. Scottish Country Dance Music
(The Scotsmen),
track 5
Cairngorms
(Muriel Johnstone & Keith Smith),
track 13
[pace 36.0]
Book 26. Twelve Scottish Country Dances
(Alan Gardiner and his Scottish Dance Band),
track 11
[pace 35.4]
Crib
| 1-8 | 1C lead down the middle and up {6}, cast off (2C up) |
| 9-16 | 2C repeat |
| 17-24 | 2C (1C following behind) cross down into a Fig8 round 3C, to finish (2,1,3) |
| 25-32 | 1C+3C R&L, finish facing 1cnrs |
| 33-40 | 1C set to 1cnr, to 2cnr, pulling RSh back to face P across ; turn RH 1½ to (2,1,3). |
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