Dance: Pelorus Jack

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

Devised by:

Barry Skelton (1993)

Formations:

Hands across - 4 (HX;4P;)
Reel of three - diagonal - half - tandem (REEL;DIAG;HALF;R3;TANDEM;)
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

Featured in:

Nov Dance Part 1

Published in:

Dolphin Book [8] *
Book 41, The Millennium Dances [1]
Pocket: Books 39,40,41 [20]
Scottish Country Dances in Diagrams. Ed. 8 [150]

Recommended Music:

Christian Catto (Alan Kindness)

Recordings (6): Show tunes

Book 41. The Millennium Dances (David Cunningham and his Scottish Dance Band), track 1 [pace 34.5]  
Special Requests Volume 5 (Colin Dewar and his Scottish Dance Band), track 13 [pace 34.6]  
The Road to Forfar (The Deirdre Adamson Quartet), track 1 [pace 34.9]
Quick Here's Anither Yin (Kenny Thomson and the Wardlaw Scottish Dance Band), track 5 [pace 34.4]  
Caledonian Muse (Terpsichore), track 9 [pace 35.9]
Live at Opotiki, Music for a Whale of a Time (Peter Elmes and his Band), track 13 [pace 35.0]

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