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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Crib
| 1-8 | 1C cross RH, cast off (2C up) ; 1C+3C RHA, finish 1M facing 1cnr, 1W behind him |
| 9-16 | 1M followed by P ½ diagonal Reel3, RSh to 3W (1M & 1W loop right singly, so 1W now leads P) ; ½ diagonal Reel3, RSh to 2W (loop singly so 1M leads) |
| 17-24 | Continue pattern twice |
| 25-32 | 2C+1C LHA ; into 1C turn LH ½ | all set (2,1,3) |
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