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I like this dance for practising double triangles (the exit is easier than with the standard figure). Also the music is very nice and works well for the dance.

This is a fun piece but a little unusual. We have used it in displays to good effect (see the video on this page).

This is a great dance for teaching reels of 4, and the transition from one repetition into the next is fun.

This has become a very popular dance to start a program or as the lead-off dance after a break. However people often get the phrasing wrong on the corner figure, because 1C need to take two bars to pass RS before turning each corner.

A relatively easy but interesting strathspey with a reel of 4.

I would probably rate this dance higher if the crossings during the loop figure were R, L, R, L instead of R, R, R, L (someone told me once that they “used to be” that way but got changed somewhere along the line). This dance is often considered easy, but the transition from the loops to the rights and lefts (i.e. the progression) is rather tricky.

Taught (and danced) this in the Frankfurt group. It is a reasonable choreography but gets tedious 4 times through – you always meet the same people in the same places, the only thing that changes is who gets to be top couple. The four-bar turns in the second part are a bit of a downer and might profitably be replaced with set (common schottische) and a turn in two bars.

I could see myself using this in a display choreography but not more than one time through.

The dance description can be found under following link:

http://www.macrudi.de/resources/Dances/Tributes/CarolasReel.pdf

Easy to do and makes a nice demo dance.

This dance has a very satisfying flow from one figure to the next and a very clever, yet easy progression.

I’d like it better with different music.

Devised as a dance with three different forms of rights and lefts. “Rice and Lefse” (lefse is a Norwegian potato-based flatbread popular in my home state of Minnesota) is a play on “rights and lefts.”