Dance Stroangassel 6360
Reel · 32 bars · 3 couples · Longwise - 4 (Progression: 213)
- Devised by
- Hugh Foss (1969)
- Intensity
- 800/880/888/808 = 49% (whole dance)
- Formations
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- Back to Back (BKTOBK)
- Steps
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- Pas-de-Basque, Skip-Change
- Published in
- Online Sources
- Recommended Music
- Extra Info
- Stroangassel is a stone circle of about 20 cairns just north of Dalry where Hugh Foss used to live.
Stroangassel is a stone circle of about 20 cairns just north of Dalry where Hugh Foss used to live.
Stroangassel 3/4L · R32
Note: in this dance, whenever two persons from different couples come face to face with each other, they dance part or all of a “tandem back-to-back” movement; for this both hands are joined as for a quick-time poussette, but skip-change step must be used, not pas-de-basque.
- 1–8
- 1s set, cast 1 place (2s step up), 1s dance back-to-back
- 9–16
- 2s & 1s set NHJ on sides, 1s dance back-to back & cast back up to top places WHILE 2s cast and dance back-to-back (2 bars tandem back-to-back as 1s retire & 2s advance)
- 17–24
- 1s, 2s & 3s set NHJ on sides, 1s cross down (w/o hands) to back-to-back positions between 2nd places facing opp. sides and dance inverted back-to-back, retiring first and ending back-to-back again, WHILE 2s & 3s cast up 1 place and dance back-to-back, 2s at top, 3s entirely (4 bars) in tandem with 1s
- 25–32
- 1s dance ½ figure of 8 crossing up RH between 2s (at top) & casting to 2nd places own sides WHILE 3s set & cast back down to 3rd places; then 1s & 3s dance 4-person diagonal back-to-back
Name | Date | Owner | Last changed |
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FSCDC Fugues etc. 4 July 2015 | 2015-07-04 | Anselm Lingnau | July 5, 2015, 1:53 p.m. |
Loch Leven - Post DAA | 2017-06-25 | Peter Price | June 25, 2017, 5:32 p.m. |
Hugh Foss Dances- 'The Reel' Issue 302 | Elaine Davies | Oct. 13, 2017, 2:15 p.m. |
Id | Subject | Date | Submitter | Assigned to | Priority | Disposition |
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1185 | error in the diagram | May 11, 2017, 3:41 a.m. | Peter Price | Keith Rose | Normal | Fixed |