Dance: The Sailor
32-bar Reel
3 couples
Set shape: Longwise - 4
- Devised by:
- (unknown)
- Formations:
-
Reel of three - across (REEL;ACROSS;R3;)
Rights and Lefts (R&L)
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
Note: This list may be incomplete.
- Published in:
-
Book 24
[4]
*
Pocket: Books 5-for-1965,23,24
[21]
Collins Pocket Reference
[168]
Scottish Country Dances in Diagrams. Ed. 7
[142]
Scottish Country Dances in Diagrams. Ed. 6
[132]
Scottish Country Dances in Diagrams. Ed. 8
[168]
- Recommended Music:
-
The Davy Hornpipe
((traditional))
- Recordings (13):
Show tunes
-
Selected Scottish Country Dances
(Jim MacLeod and his Band),
track 3
Strictly Scottish Volume One
(Robert Whitehead & the Danelaw Band),
track 4
Music for Scottish Country Dancing
(BBC Band (Archie Duncan et al)),
track 8
[pace 34.6]
Heather and Yon
(Berkeley Scottish Players),
track 8
[pace 33.8]
Scottish Dance Time Vol 5
(Stan Hamilton and his Flying Scotsmen),
track 1
[pace 32.5]
Welcome to the London Highland Club
(Frank Reid and his Band),
track 6
[pace 34.0]
Scotch Mist
(Rob Gordon and his Band),
track 4
Across the Tay
(Ian McCallum and his Scottish Dance Band),
track 4
[pace 33.9]
Book 24, Twelve Scottish Country Dances
(Muriel Johnstone's Band),
track 4
[pace 35.6]
Memories of Scottish Weekend
(Scottish Weekend Ensemble),
track 9
[pace 35.9]
The Road to Forfar
(The Deirdre Adamson Quartet),
track 6
[pace 34.8]
A Dancing Master Remembered
(Jennifer Wilson),
track 5
[pace 35.5]
Scottish Country Dances Vol 3
(The Ian Muir Sound),
track 9
Crib
| 1-8 | 1C cross down RH (2C up) and set NHJ with cnrs ; 1C cast R into lines across | all set |
| 9-16 | All RSh Reels3 across, finishing 2,1x,3 |
| 17-24 | 1C lead down | lead to the top ; cross and cast to (2,1,3) |
| 25-32 | 2C+1C R&L. |
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