Dance: The Blackwater Reel

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

Devised by:
Alan Davis (1997)
Formations:
Half-turn and cast away (HTCAST)
Rights and Lefts - half (R&L;HALF;)
Hands across - 4 (HX;4P;)
Reel of three - on sides (REEL;R3;SIDES;)
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:
The Blackwater Collection of SCD [7] *
Book 41, The Millennium Dances [9]
Pocket: Books 39,40,41 [28]
Scottish Country Dances in Diagrams. Ed. 8 [18]
Recommended Music:
Miss Alison o'Connor (D R Cunningham)
Recordings (2): Show tunes
Book 41. The Millennium Dances (David Cunningham and his Scottish Dance Band), track 9 [pace 34.9]
The Blackwater Collection (The Craigellachie Band), track 9 [pace 34.9]

Crib

1-81C+2C+3C ½ RH turn | twirl R to opposite place ; chase clw half round (to 3,2,1)
9-163C+2C ½ R&L while 1C cross RH and set ; 3C+1C ½ R&L while 2C cross RH and set (to 2,1,3)
17-24Teapots R ; and L, 2C+3C finish facing out
25-32Mirror Reels3 on the sides, joining hands where possible, 1C starts in and up
Crib needs checked · Source: Eric T. Ferguson ·

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