Dance: The New Virginia Reel

128-bar Reel
4 couples
Set shape: Square

Devised by:
Anna Campbell Holden
Formations:
Hands across - 4 (HX;4P;)
Back to Back (BKTOBK)
Rights and Lefts (R&L)
Figure of Eight (FIG8;1C;)
Hands round - 8 - and back (HR;8P;BACK;)
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
Slip-Step
Published in:
Book 39 [3] *
Three SCD [1]
Collins Pocket Reference [229]
Scottish Country Dances in Diagrams. Ed. 7 [121]
Pocket: Books 39,40,41 [3]
Scottish Country Dances in Diagrams. Ed. 8 [143]
Recommended Music:
Dodo's Reel (Muriel A Johnstone)
Stanley Burn (Muriel A Johnstone)
Virginia Reel (Muriel A Johnstone)
Recordings (2): Show tunes
Let's Meet Again (Graham Geddes and his Scottish Dance Band), track 7 [pace 33.8]
Book 39. Music for Nine Scottish Country Dances (Kenny Thomson and the Wardlaw Scottish Dance Band), track 3

Crib

figure 1
1-16All set to partners, change places RH ; circle8 and back ; all set to partners, change places RH back to own places
17-241C+3C (BHJ) slip in curve to change places (M back-to-back), set (inside foot) ; slip back (W back-to-back), set (R foot) and open to face in
25-1282C+4C repeat
figure 2
 All W RHA, round P by the left, to places
 All set to partners, dance BtoB, set
 All M LHA, round partners by the R, to places
 All set to partners, dance BtoB, set
figure 3
 1M+3W Fig8 round 2C –while– 1W+3M Fig8 round 4C (2C+4C spread, close at end)
 1C (3C) in promhold dance round 4C (2C) (pass W by the right) ; 1C+3C dance round each other in the middle, M passing by the left
 2C+4C repeat
figure 4
 All W R&L, starting 1W+2W & 3W+4W crossing
 All M R&L, starting 1M+4M & 2M+3M crossing
 All set to partners, change places RH ; circle8 and back ; all set to partners, change places RH back to places
Crib needs checked · Source: Eric T. Ferguson ·

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