Dance: The Snake Pass

32-bar Jig
3 couples
Set shape: Longwise - 4

Devised by:

Norman Churnside

Formations:

Rights and Lefts - half (R&L;HALF;)
Snake (SNAKE)
Reel of four - diagonal - half (REEL;DIAG;HALF;R4;)
Figure of Eight - half (FIG8;1C;HALF;)
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

Published in:

Life Begins at Forty [9] *
Scottish Country Dances in Diagrams. Ed. 7 [149]
Scottish Country Dances in Diagrams. Ed. 8 [177]

Recommended Music:

Coniston Capers (Roland Telford)

Recordings (2): Show tunes

Come Scottish Country Dancing (The Deirdre Adamson Quartet), track 10 [pace 35.5]
Life begins at Forty (Robert Whitehead & the Danelaw Band), track 9 [pace 32.5]

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