Dance: Peggy's Strathspey

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

Devised by:
Eric Finley
Formations:
Reel of three - on sides (REEL;R3;SIDES;)
Espagnole (ESPAN)
Rights and Lefts - half (R&L;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:
Strathspey travel
Strathspey setting
Published in:
50th Anniversary Album [2] *
Book 41, The Millennium Dances [5]
Pocket: Books 39,40,41 [24]
Scottish Country Dances in Diagrams. Ed. 8 [150]
Recommended Music:
Mrs Peggy Dykes (Muriel A Johnstone)
Recordings (1): Show tunes
Book 41. The Millennium Dances (David Cunningham and his Scottish Dance Band), track 5 [pace 64.0]

Crib

1-81C cross down & 2C cast up & 3C set {2}, Mirror Reels3{6} on sidelines, 1C starting out and down (to 2,1x,3)
9-163C cross up & 1C cast off & 2C set {2}, Mirror Reels3{6} on sidelines, 3C starting out and up (to 2,3x,1x)
17-243C+1C ½ R&L ; 2C+1C ½ R&L (to 1x,2x,3)
25-321C+2C Reversed Espagnole (to 2,1,3)
(Reversed Espagnole: both M lead RHJ to L side, cross and cast back to exchanged places –while– Women cross to M side, cast in and cross RH to exchanged places ; all turn P easy hand 1½)
For bar 16, Finley’s original version says “… third couple … in second place on the opposite side, "having danced the long way in to place", “a phrase omitted in the RSCDS version.
Crib needs checked · Source: Eric T. Ferguson ·

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