Dance: Shiftin' Bobbins
32-bar Reel
3 couples
Set shape: Longwise - 4
- Devised by:
- Roy Clowes
- Formations:
-
Hands across - 3 (HX;3P;)
Figure of Eight - half (FIG8;1C;HALF;)
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
Pas-de-Basque
Note: This list may be incomplete.
- Published in:
-
Ormskirk Scottish Dances Book 6
*
Ormskirk Scottish Dances - Memorial Edition
[17]
Scottish Reels are Fun
[53]
Collins Pocket Reference
[242]
Scottish Country Dances in Diagrams. Ed. 7
[147]
Scottish Country Dances in Diagrams. Ed. 6
[138]
Scottish Country Dances in Diagrams. Ed. 8
[174]
- Full description:
- http://www.javastandrewsociety.com/Scottish%20Country%20Dances/shiftingbobbins.htm
- Recommended Music:
-
Shiftin' Bobbins
(Muriel Rimmer)
- Recordings (11):
Show tunes
-
Special Requests Volume 1
(The Colin Dewar Trio),
track 7
[pace 35.2]
Highlander Music Scottish Dances Vol 3
(David Cunningham and his Scottish Dance Band),
track 2
[pace 34.0]
Come Scottish Country Dancing
(The Deirdre Adamson Quartet),
track 13
[pace 36.0]
Tae Gar Ye Loup
(Drummond Cook and his Scottish Dance Band),
track 1
[pace 34.4]
Something Old - Something New
(Frank Reid and his Band),
track 7
Just What the Doctor Ordered
(Sandy Nixon and his Scottish Dance Band),
track 4
Argyll's Fancy
(Iain MacPhail and his Scottish Dance Band),
track 3
[pace 32.0]
Strictly Scottish Volume Two
(Robert Whitehead & the Danelaw Band),
track 4
Gang on the Same Gate
(Green Ginger),
track 5
[pace 34.2]
A Dozen Dances
(Jim Berry and his Scottish Dance Band),
track 12
[pace 33.4]
The Breakdown
(L Ramshaw / S W Bentley / M Bentley),
track 5
[pace 34.5]
Crib
| 1-8 | 1C cross RH (2C up) to 2plx in DTr position with corners | set as DTr ; cast up, meet and dance down to 2pl in middle |
| 9-16 | 2M+1W+3M RHA, while 2W+1M+3W LHA ; 1C followed by 2C+3C dance down the middle |
| 17-24 | 3C+2C+1C dance up the middle, 3C casting to 3pl, flowing into ; 1W+2M+3M LHA, while 1M+2W+3W RHA |
| 25-32 | 1C dance to top, cast off one ; ½ Fig8 up round 2C. |
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