Dance Rowena and Rebecca 5730
Strathspey · 48 bars · 4 couples · Longwise - 4 (Progression: 2341)
- Devised by
- Hugh Foss
- Intensity
- 8000/8800/8888/0077/0088/8888 = 61% (whole dance)
- Formations
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- Figure of Eight - half (FIG8;1C;HALF;)
- Hands round - 4 (HR;4P;)
- Hands round - 8 - half (HR;8P;HALF;)
- Steps
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- Strathspey setting, Strathspey travel
- Published in
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- Waverley Fugues [10]
- Recommended Music
Rowena and Rebecca 4/4L · S48
The opening fugal theme is danced successively by all four couples starting on bars 1, 9, 17 & 19. This crib gives a flavour of the dance: the full instructions and diagrams are recommended.
- 1–8
- 1c set | turn BH ; cast off to 4pl (2c+3c+4c up on [7–8])
- 9–16
- 1c turn | lead up & cross above 4c ; cast off | cross up to 3pl
while 2c set | turn BH ; cast off to 4pl (3c+4c up on [15–16]) (3,4,1,2) - 17–24
- 1c set | turn BH ; turn BH moving up | lead up & circle into 1pl
while 2c turn BH to 4pl | set ; turn moving up | ½ turn to 3plx
while 3c set | turn BH ; cast to 4pl
while 4c stand | set ; turn BH moving up to 1pl | start casting off (following 3c) - 25–28
- 3c ½ turn BH | lead up to 2plx centre
while 4c continue cast to 4pl | meet & lead up to 3pl centre (2c down on [27–28]) - 29–30
- 3c & 4c ½ turn, 3W/4W end on W/M side between 2pl & 3pl, 3M/4M end on centre line in 2pl/3pl facing up/down
- 31–32
- 3M/4M dance up/down & face W/M side (3W+4W stand)
- 33–36
- 3W+4W set twice
while 3M & 4M exchange places by casting RSh round 1W/2W (in 1W/4M pl) & dance in below/above P back to centre line - 37–40
- 3c+4c circle4 L to (1,4x,3,2x)
- 41–44
- All ½ circle8 L to (2,3x,4,1x)
- 45–48
- 2c & 4c turn P while 3c & 1c turn P 1½ to (2,3,4,1)
Name | Date | Owner | Last changed |
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FSCDC Fugues etc. 14 June 2014 | 2014-06-14 | Anselm Lingnau | June 14, 2014, 10:46 p.m. |
Cambridge RonDancing 2022 | Murrough Landon | July 3, 2023, 1:09 a.m. |