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

1-81C lead down the middle and up {6}, cast off (2C up)
9-162C repeat
17-242C (1C following behind) cross down into a Fig8 round 3C, to finish (2,1,3)
25-321C+3C R&L, finish facing 1cnrs
33-401C set to 1cnr, to 2cnr, pulling RSh back to face P across ; turn RH 1½ to (2,1,3).
Crib needs checked · Source: Eric T. Ferguson ·

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