Dance: The Barmkin
88-bar Reel
4 couples
Set shape: Square
- Devised by:
- Roy Goldring
- Formations:
-
Chase (CHASE)
Hands across - 4 (HX;4P;)
Rights and Lefts (R&L)
Advance and Retire (ADVRET;2S;)
Hands round - 8 - and back (HR;8P;BACK;)
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
Slip-Step
Note: This list may be incomplete.
- Published in:
-
24 Graded and Social Dances
[3]
*
Scottish Country Dances in Diagrams. Ed. 8
[14]
- Recommended Music:
-
The Landlady of the Inver Inn (Niel Gow)
- Recordings (6):
Show tunes
-
Lorne Choice (Alastair Hunter & the Lorne Scottish Dance Band),
track 7
Barmkin. The Dancing Years & other Leeds' Branch Dances (Muriel Johnstone's Band),
track 1
Live in Moffat (Willie McRoberts),
track 10
Favourite SCDs Vol. 3 Teacher's Choice (Irvine Valley SCD Band),
track 8
Caledonian Muse (Terpsichore),
track 13
[pace 38.2]
Todlen Hame and other Favourite Dances (Muriel Johnstone & Keith Smith),
track 10
[pace 39.3]
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Crib
| 1-8 | 1C+3C turn RH and face clw ; chase ½ round set into |
| 9-16 | 3C+1C RHA ; LHA to “exchanged” places |
| 17-32 | 2C+4C repeat [1-16] |
| 33-40 | 1C+3C turn LH and face cclw ; chase½ round set to own places |
| 41-48 | 1C+3C R&L |
| 49-64 | 2C+4C repeat [33-48] |
| 65-72 | All C NHJ advance | retire “diagonally” NHJ with cnr ; all W dance clw round their cnr |
| 73-80 | All pairs advance | retire NHJ with P to places ; all M dance clw round P |
| 81-88 | All circle8 and back |
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