Dance The Mystic Knot 20032
Medley · 160 bars (S80+R80) · 4 couples · Square (Progression: 4123)
- Devised by
- Viktor Lehmann (2019)
- Intensity
- 8888/8888/8888/8888/8888 = 100% (whole dance)
- Formations
- Reel of four - intersecting (REEL;R4;INTSECT)
- Hands across - 4 (HX;4P;)
- Note: This list may be incomplete and/or incorrect.
- Steps
- Pas-de-Basque, Skip-Change, Strathspey setting, Strathspey travel
- Online Sources
- Extra info
- Dedicated to Anika Lange, my ...
Dedicated to Anika Lange, my chosen sister.
| Name | Artist | Album | Media | Trk | Type | Time | Pace | Clip | Tunes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stepping Hill | Colin Dewar and his Scottish Dance Band | The Vallin Suite 4 | CD | 15 | M160 1 | 4:05 | 49.0 |
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The Iron Man/Cameron's Got his Wife Again/The New High Level/Bert McCroskie |
The Mystic Knot 4S · M160
- 1-4
- All petronella turn, set to partner (star formation: ladies back to back in the center, men on the outside, all facing partner).
- 5-12
- Double Reels of 4 (with 1/2 LA in the middle), to finish in star formation as on bar 4.
- 13-16
- All set to partner, then petronella turn back to sidelines into partners‘ places, facing own partner again.
- 17-32
- „Mystic Knot“: On bars 1-4, couples in top and bottom places 1/2TB and open up facing in; dance one step in NHJ, and with opp. person dance one step out to side couples‘ places NHJ, finish facing new partner; on bars 5-8, now in side couples‘ places, 1/2 TB and pull RS back to finish back to back and dance 1 place into partners‘ opp. places, facing partner; repeat that movement back to places where the „Mystic Knot“ started from while side couples start the movement with what is described for bars 5-8 and continue the ongoing movement from there.
- 33-34
- Starting with own partner: chain for two hands, one place on.
- 35-36
- TR 3/4
- 37-40
- Ladies 1/2 chase clw round set while men LA (to 4 1 2 3), to face own partner, ready to start the next repeat. The first two repeats are in Strathspey time, the last two repeats in Reel time.
