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Dance Fife Ness 2158

Also known as “Fine Mess” (unofficial).

Reel · 32 bars · 3 couples · Longwise - 4   (Progression: 213)

Devised by
Mary Shoolbraid Brandon (1972)
Intensity
800 777 866 866 = 71% (1 turn), 54% (whole dance)
Formations
Steps
  • Pas-de-Basque, Skip-Change
Published in
Recommended Music
Extra Info
Fife Ness

The East Neuk of Fife jabs spade-like into the North Sea between St. Andrews Bay and the Firth of Forth. South and west of the old university town of St. Andrews are the ancient seaports of what is now called “the Scottish Riviera”: Crail, Anstruther, Pittenweem, St. Monance and Elie to Largo Bay. Once important centres of trade with the Low Countries, these towns have become fishing communities and holiday resorts.

On a bright summer’s day, these villages are a delightful sight. Old houses, harled white or salmon-pink, gables crow-stepped with roofs of red pantiles, reach down in terraces and along narrow twisting streets to stone breakwaters and protected harbours filled with colourful fishing boats and stacks of lobster traps.

Fife Ness is the point of the spade facing the rocks of North Carr lighthouse and the North Sea. Nearby is Balcomie Castle, dating from the 16th century, and Wormistone House, built in the 17th century by the Spens family, the Constables of Crail, and which passed about 1620 to Patrick Lindsay whose heirs became the Earls of Lindsay.

Fife Ness 3/4L · R32
1–
1c ½ RH turn to promhold, dance between 3c ; cross LH (2c up) and cast up to (2,1,3)
9–
2M+1W+3M set advancing to form triangle NHJ {2}, set retiring, advancing, retiring while{8} 2W+1M+3W stand {2}, set advancing likewise, retiring, advancing
17–
1c in promhold +2W+3W Lsh ½Reel3 in centre of set ; 1c+(2W+3M)+(3W+2M) all in promhold ½Reel3
25–
1c+2M+3M ½Reel3 (finish 2x,1x,3x) ; all set and cross RH
Fife Ness 3/4L · R32
1-8
1s 1/2 turn RH into prom hold & dance down, cross LH & cast up behind 3s on own sides to 2nd place
9-16
1L & 2M+3M set advancing to form triangle, 1L & 2M+3M retire as 1M & 2L+3L set advancing to form triangle, repeat this Fig (bars 9-12)
17-24
1s in prom hold dance 1/2 LSh reel of 3 with 2L+3L (in centre of set), 2L & 3L pick up each others partner & complete reel
25-32
1s (prom hold) continue with 1/2 reel of 3 with 2M+3M (Men leave Ladies on Men’s side in 1st & 3rd place) all end opp side 2 1 3, all set & cross RH

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Newcastle Festival 2013

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Added on: 2014-02-18 (Martina Mueller-Franz)
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RSCDS Vienna Branch

Added on: 2020-07-17 (Murrough Landon)
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RSCDS Edinburgh Dancing Forth 2011

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'Fife Ness' is a 32 bar reel for …

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IdSubjectDateSubmitterAssigned toPriorityDisposition
685 Diagramm Fife Ness March 28, 2015, 5:45 p.m. Meinhard Reiser Keith Rose Normal Fixed
877 Problem rendering Keith's diagram as PDF/PNG Jan. 28, 2016, 10:45 p.m. Heiko Schmidt Keith Rose Normal Fixed
903 Shoolbraid rather than Schoobraid in Keith Rose diagram March 1, 2016, 2:17 p.m. Stuart Kreloff Keith Rose Normal Fixed
1623 The diagram for Fife Ness Jan. 26, 2019, 3:21 p.m. Meinhard Reiser Keith Rose Normal Fixed