Dance: Ladies' Fancy

32-bar Jig
2 couples
Set shape: Longwise - 4

Devised by:
(unknown)
Formations:
Dance down and up - 3 people (DWNUP;3P;)
Hands across - 4 - and back (HX;4P;BACK;)
Poussette - standard (POUSS;PV;)
Steps:
Skip-Change
Pas-de-Basque
Published in:
Book 13 - Victory Book [12] *
Pocket: Books 13,14,15 [12]
Thirty Popular Scottish Country Dances [15]
101 Scottish Country Dances [57]
Collins Pocket Reference [140]
Scottish Country Dances in Diagrams. Ed. 7 [81]
Scottish Country Dances in Diagrams. Ed. 6 [77]
Scottish Country Dances in Diagrams. Ed. 8 [99]
Full description:
http://members.aol.com/ParadiseMO/HM3goldenoldies.html#fancy
Recommended Music:
Peggie's Wedding ((traditional))
The Shepherd's Wife (Niel Gow)
Recordings (12): Show tunes
Book 13/14. Eight Scottish Country Dances (Bobby Crowe and his Scottish Dance Band), track 3 [pace 34.8]
Music for Fifteen Dances (Bobby Crowe and his Scottish Dance Band), track 4 [pace 34.8]
Scottish Dance Favourites Volume 1 (Bobby Crowe and his Scottish Dance Band), track 4 [pace 34.8]
Highlander Music Old Masters Volume 1 (Alex Macarthur & His Scottish Dance Band), track 10 [pace 35.0]
Scottish Country Dances (Vol. 2) (Alex Macarthur & His Scottish Dance Band), track 9 [pace 35.0]
Scottish Dance Masters, The Vol 1 (Ron Gonnella & Andrew Rankine), track 2
Scotland Dances to Alasdair Downie and his Scottish Band (The Alastair Downie Band), track 3
Australian Ladies (Harp and Claymore), track 9
Come Scottish Country Dancing with Robert Whitehead (2) (Robert Whitehead & the Danelaw Band), track 5
Music for Scottish Country Dancing (Bobby Brown and The Scottish Accent), track 1 [pace 33.4]
Old Favourites and Odd Couples (Catherine Fraser & Duncan Smith), track 4 [pace 37.2]
Medal Tests for Young Dancers (Rutherford, Maureen & Copland, Neil), track 22 [pace 37.5]

Crib

1-81M+2W RH turn ; 1M+1W 1½ LH turn (2W up on [7-8]) to face down in line across 2W+1M+1W (2W on own side)
9-162W+1M+1W down the middle and up (1M hands 1W across in front as 2M joins in behind him for)
17-241C+2C RHA, LHA
25-321C+2C Poussette.
Crib needs checked · Source: Eric T. Ferguson ·

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