Dance: Round Reel of Eight

88-bar Reel
4 couples
Set shape: Square

Devised by:

(unknown)

Formations:

Grand Chain for 6 (GCHAIN;6P;)
Promenade 2 couples (PROM;2C;)
Rights and Lefts (R&L)
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:

Book 27 [7] *
Pocket: Books 25,26,27 [31]
Thirty Popular Scottish Country Dances [10]
Collins Pocket Reference [166]
Scottish Country Dances in Diagrams. Ed. 7 [139]
Scottish Country Dances in Diagrams. Ed. 6 [129]
Scottish Country Dances in Diagrams. Ed. 8 [165]

Full description:

http://members.aol.com/ParadiseMO/HM3goldenoldies.html#round

Recommended Music:

Mrs Anderson's Reel (Robert Macintosh)

Recordings (15): Show tunes

Book 27. Music for Twelve Traditional Dances (Olympians Scottish Dance Band), track 7
Music for Fifteen Dances (Olympians Scottish Dance Band), track 8
Scottish Dance Favourites Volume 2 (Olympians Scottish Dance Band), track 1
Let's Dance Again... (Alastair Hunter & the Lorne Scottish Dance Band), track 9
On Stage With..., Volume 3 (The Thistle Band), track 7
The White Cockade (The White Cockade Scottish Country Dance Band), track 7
To Dance To (Ian Holmes and his Band), track 3
Come Scottish Country Dancing with Robert Whitehead (Robert Whitehead & the Danelaw Band), track 5
Bow and Curtsy (Jim Dawson and his Scottish Country Dance Band), track 11
The Kirrie Lads (Ian Cruickshanks and his Band), track 15
Dancing Live (The Muriel Johnstone Trio), track 9
Two More Couples Please (The Scotsmen), track 7
Happy We've Been A' Thegither (Reel Tradition), track 6
More Memories of Scottish Weekend (Scottish Weekend Ensemble), track 9
Highlander Music Scottish Dances Vol 12 (Marian Anderson and her Band), track 4

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