Dance The Ghost and Mary Jo 18772
Jig · 32 bars · 5 persons · Other (Progression: Other)
- Devised by
- Sue McKinnell (2014)
- Intensity
- 800/880/844/620 = 57% (whole dance)
- Formations
- Reel of three - tandem - half (no lead change) (REEL;HALF;R3;TANDEM;)
- Reel of three - lead change - half (REEL;HALF;R3;LeadChange;HALF;)
- Reel of three - tandem (no lead change) (REEL;R4;TANDEM; )
- Steps
- Pas-de-Basque, Skip-Change
- Online Sources
- Extra info
- Mary Jo asked for a ...
Mary Jo asked for a dance with a permanent ghost for when there are only 5 people for dancing and this is what I came up with.
Name | Artist | Album | Media | Trk | Type | Time | Pace | Clip | Tunes |
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6 x 32 Jigs | Green Ginger | Miss Ogilvie's Fancy | CD | 14 | J32 6 | 3:39 | 36.5 |
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The Grey Buck/The Heights of the Alma/Duntulm |
The Ghost and Mary Jo 5p · J32
- 1--
- 1c set | cast off (2c up) ; set | turn P LH into 1M with 1W just behind facing 2W
- 9--
- 1M+1W following Rsh Reel3 across with 2c, in last loop change lead into 1W with 1M just behind facing 3M
- 17--
- 1W+1M following Rsh Reel3 on side with 2M+3M, at end 1c dance into 2pl own side (1,2,3M)
- 25--
- 1c turn P LH ; All set | 1M casts off (3M up) (2c, 3M+1W, 1M)
Name | Date | Owner | Last changed |
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Scottish Flowers Hildesheim 2019-12-16 | 2019-12-16 | Cord Walter | Dec. 16, 2019, 10:54 p.m. |
Scottish Flowers Hildesheim 2019-06-24 | 2019-06-24 | Cord Walter | June 24, 2019, 11:09 p.m. |
Scottish Flowers Hildesheim 2020-03-02 | 2020-03-02 | Cord Walter | March 6, 2020, midnight |
Chiswick - 6 September 2020 (orig) | 2020-09-06 | James Wilson | Sept. 7, 2020, 11:38 a.m. |
Chiswick - 20 September 2020 (orig) | 2020-09-20 | James Wilson | Sept. 20, 2020, 8:58 p.m. |
Chiswick - 27 September 2020 (orig) | 2020-09-27 | James Wilson | Oct. 6, 2020, 4:25 p.m. |
Chiswick - 13 September 2020 (orig) | 2020-09-13 | James Wilson | Sept. 15, 2020, 7:42 p.m. |
SF Hildesheim 2-6-7 etc. Paare | Cord Walter | Nov. 9, 2019, 11:01 p.m. | |
Scottish Flowers Hildesheim 2020 | 2020-01-01 | Cord Walter | Jan. 6, 2020, 10:47 p.m. |
Scottish Flowers Hildesheim 2019 | 2019-01-01 | Cord Walter | April 8, 2019, 12:01 a.m. |
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Fun for Five
Angelika Schmidkonz · Sept. 9, 2020, 1:53 p.m.
A fun dance for two and a half couples which also works very well without giving hands during the turns. While our dancers enjoyed this dance very much, they thought changing bars 29+30 with bars 31+32 would give it a better flow.
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