Dance Placid Pace 18103
Strathspey · 32 bars · 4 couples · Square (Progression: 4123)
- Devised by
- Laura Wheater (2017)
- Intensity
- 8080/8080/8080/4848 = 56% (whole dance)
- Formations
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- Set and Link (SETLNK;2P;)
- Reel of four - half (REEL;HALF;R4;)
- Hands across - 4 (HX;4P;)
- Note: This list may be incomplete and/or incorrect.
- Steps
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- Strathspey setting, Strathspey travel
- Extra Info
- When filmed the dance was still being tweaked hence some of the experimentation occurring. It was written by Laura Wheater …
When filmed the dance was still being tweaked hence some of the experimentation occurring. It was written by Laura Wheater in response to Marc’s story about a close encounter of the slow kind with an amazonian sloth. Thus the 3 clawed toes in the air and the slow reel.
Crib is accurate and is correct.
Placid Pace 4S · S32
- 1–8
- Head cpls set and link 3/4 to a line of four; set and turn BH x1.
- .
- Head couples dance a Half Sloth Reel.
- 9–12
- End dancers set advancing one place, set again advancing to pass one another - middles dance two petronella turns and become ends.
- 13–16
- Repeat from new positions - dancers will be half way through a normal reel of 4.
- .
- 17–20
- Heads turn RH into allemande hold facing anti clockwise, dance half round (back to original end)
- 21–24
- Dance LH Across 3/4 round with twirl to face the side couples.
- 25–26
- Heads and sides change places passing Rshoulders,
- 27–32
- Center couples chase anti-clockwise 3/4 round into head positions, and all four couples set
Watch on YouTube
(YouTube must be enabled in cookie preferences to embed videos.)This dance is still being tweaked; it was …
Added on: 2017-12-09 (Peter Price)
Quality: Good
| Name | Date | Owner | Last changed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scotia Dancers 3-22-20 | vanapol | March 22, 2020, 10:54 a.m. |
