Dance Awa' Tae The Fair 323

Jig · 128 bars · 4 couples · Longwise - 4   (Progression: OnceOnly)

Devised by

Roy Clowes

Formations

• Balance in Line (BALNCE)
• Reel of four (REEL;R4;)
• Reel of four - intersecting (REEL;R4;INTSECT)
• Hands across - 4 couples in star (full or half) (HX;4C;)
• Arches (ARCHES)
• Hands across - 4 - and back (HX;4P;BACK;)
• Reel of four - diagonal (REEL;DIAG;R4;)
• Advance and Retire (ADVRET;2S;)
• Rights and Lefts (R&L)
• Hands round - 8 - and back (HR;8P;BACK;)
• Note: This list may be incomplete and/or incorrect.

Steps

• Highland, Pas-de-Basque, Skip-Change, Slip-Step, Spring Points

Published in

• Ormskirk Scottish Dances - Memorial Edition [3]
• Ormskirk Scottish Dances Book 1 [5]
• Scottish Dance Archives - The Donald Collection (Online List) [10]

Online Sources

• https://www.rscdslondon.org.uk/_files/ugd/580b0a_4dd876dd341840cea7f6194c9a71b23c.pdf

Recommended Music

• The Little Burnt Potato (Colin J. Boyd) [As “The Burnt Potato”]
• The Weaver and His Wife (Andrew Rankine)
• Syd Chalmers (Jimmy Shand, Senior)