# dance

created: 1998-01-05 23:00:00+00
last_modified: 2021-05-30 11:38:51.834333+00
name: Lamont Of Cowal
ucname: LAMONT OF COWAL
intensity_bars: 844/844/844/800
devised: 1991-05-12
notes:
  The notes say that "according to Highland tradition the Lamonts were the most ancient proprietors of Cowal."

  The <<ddpub:Blue Book#604>> gives the music as "The Isle". Recordings with that name are actually Jigs whereas this dance is described as a Reel.


created: 1997-09-17 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2021-05-27 22:07:32.79418+00
name: Holland Park
ucname: HOLLAND PARK
devised: 1981-01-01
notes:
  The instructions suggest using either of the recordings La Flora or Tayport Beauty from the album for book 27.

  In the notes, George Swirles reports that the dance was introduced "at a session of Scottish Country Dancing held in Holland Park, London, in 1981 for the entertainment of tourists in London who were invited to take part in many of the dances.... At Holland Park all nationalities danced and all ages. I have had partners varing from a delightful, little girl of about six or seven to a lady who must have been about 60 or more."


created: 1998-01-05 23:00:00+00
last_modified: 2021-05-30 12:04:28.032816+00
name: Herring Bone
ucname: HERRING BONE
intensity_bars: 4444/4444/8440/8448
devised: 1990-06-01
notes:
  The <<ddpub:Blue Book#604>> gives the music as "Campbell's Hornpipe" as recorded by <<ddp:Frank Reid and his Band#2414>> on the album <<dda:Dance Time#149>> though that recording does not explicitly mention the tune "<<ddt:Campbell's Hornpipe#237>>" (possibly just missing from SCDDB listing?).

  However the <<ddpub:Kiwi Book#695>> suggests <<ddrec:Buchan Gate#1998>> by the <<ddp:Olympians Scottish Dance Band#3024>>.


created: 1997-09-15 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2021-05-30 10:33:56.738363+00
name: Thane of Argyle
ucname: THANE OF ARGYLE
intensity_bars: 888/800/822/888
devised: 1991-04-26
notes:
  The instructions in the <<ddpub:Blue Book#604>> give the music as "Baldy Bain's Fiddle" on the record <<dda:Ready...And!#206>> by <<ddp:Brown, Bobby #2085>>. It is assumed the track normally spelled as "Bauldy Bain's Fiddle" is intended.


created: 1998-04-04 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2021-06-01 19:41:14.61288+00
name: Abegweit
ucname: ABEGWEIT
devised: 1990-01-01
notes:
  Pronounced "A-beg-wait"

  Abegweit is the Micmac (now referred to as Mi'kmaq) name for Prince Edward Island and means "cradled upon the waters".

  This dance is one part of a set of three Scottish country dances devised to mark the Canada Winter Games hosted by Prince Edward Island in February 1991 and in support of the Island Tourist Theme for 1991 - The Road to the Isle.  The other dances in this set are Midwinter and Marylou's Reel.

  At the request of the PEI Scottish Country Dancers, J. Duncan Keppie composed the tune Rustico for this dance.


created: 2001-04-22 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2021-06-01 20:55:42.168839+00
name: Haddo House
ucname: HADDO HOUSE
intensity_bars: 822 800 866 888
notes:
  The notes say that  Haddo House near Tarves was gifted to the National Trust in 1978 on the death of David Gordon, Lord Aberdeen. The movements of the dance represent the two wings of the house.


created: 1997-09-03 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2021-06-01 21:50:17.981902+00
name: Gushet Neuk
ucname: GUSHET NEUK
intensity_bars: 660/730/888/888
devised: 1968-11-01
notes:
  Devised in November 1968 for all members of an Australian Club. The original name was "Let's all go walkabout" by which it is probably known in Australia. The present name is that of the tune composed by Jimmy Reith of Aberdeen.


created: 1997-09-02 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2021-06-02 10:45:34.098335+00
name: Ettrick Shepherd, The
ucname: ETTRICK SHEPHERD
notes:
  For Hazel and Alan Ashment.

  According to the notes, the poet, James Hogg (1770 - 1835) was known as The Ettrick Shepherd.

  The starting positions are 3,2,1 on the men's side and 1,2,3 on the women's side and their progression is 1,3,2 and 2,3,1 respectively.


created: 1997-09-03 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2021-06-02 10:56:37.348898+00
name: Greyfriar's Bobby
ucname: GREYFRIARS BOBBY
intensity_bars: 800/888/888/888
notes:
  Near Greyfriars Church in Edinburgh stands a fountain in memory of Greyfriars Bobby, a faithful terrier, who watched over his master's grave for fourteen years.


created: 2003-01-25 23:00:00+00
last_modified: 2021-06-02 11:37:04.616621+00
name: Granny Knot, The
ucname: GRANNY KNOT
intensity_bars: 888/880/848/840
notes:
  The notes say this dance was "written for Dr. Peter McBryde, a teacher, and his wife, Marion, who have contributed much to Scottish Country Dancing in Canada through the Teachers' Association and Tactalk."

  A footnote explains that a Reef Knot tied incorrectly is known as a 'Granny Knot'. In the S.C.D. formation called 'The Knot', dancers turn with the left hands back to places, whereas in the last 4 bars of this dance they turn to places with the right hands, suggesting the above title.


created: 2002-05-01 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2021-06-02 23:57:11.529341+00
name: Heathcote Hall
ucname: HEATHCOTE HALL
intensity_bars: 884/888/822/888
devised: 1993-01-01
notes:
  According to the notes for the dance "Heathcote Hall is a house that was built in the 1860's not long after the Illawarra railway line was constructed. When the dance was written, the front of the dance devisor's home faced the Hall across the street. (The devisor has now moved). The part of Heathcote containing the Hall is within an enclave in the Royal National Park and its gazebo tower used to be used for a fire lookout."


created: 1997-09-03 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2021-06-03 14:22:04.350032+00
name: Glenfinnan Reel, The
ucname: GLENFINNAN REEL
intensity_bars: 880/844/844/844
notes:
  One of a set of three dances (reel, jig and strathspey) comprising the Glenfinnan signature dances which were premiered as a medley at the Gala Day in Hamilton, Ontario in May 1976.


created: 2001-08-19 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2021-06-05 10:25:42.561836+00
name: Get Weaving
ucname: GET WEAVING
intensity_bars: 800/844/888/888
devised: 1994-07-01
notes:
  "For Ron Wallace and Gary Thomas of Santa Rosa, California, who have acquired a loom to get weaving at home."


created: 1998-11-14 23:00:00+00
last_modified: 2021-06-05 10:50:18.300204+00
name: Geneva Park
ucname: GENEVA PARK
devised: 1965-07-01
notes:
  The notes say this was devised in July 1965 for our annual Branch Weekend held at Geneva Park, Lake Couchiching, in September. The entry into the lead-up after reel of four requires care.

  The instructions also say this is for "3 couples in four couple set". However 1st couple end in 4th place with 4th couple stepping up, so for SCDDB this is a 4 couple dance with progression 2341.


created: 2001-11-20 23:00:00+00
last_modified: 2021-06-05 11:24:34.197632+00
name: Geese in the Bog, The
ucname: GEESE IN THE BOG
intensity_bars: 880/844/888/888
devised: 1995-01-01
notes:
  The notes for the dance say that "the name of the tune seemed to fit the dance. conjuring up images of strings of geese meandering aimlessly yet purposefully, all the time lost."


created: 2015-01-22 12:32:00.899898+00
last_modified: 2021-06-05 11:42:00.358775+00
name: Gardener's Delight, The
ucname: GARDENERS DELIGHT
intensity_bars: 888/880/888/800/880
devised: 2007-01-01
notes:
  Suggested Music: Spring Chicken recorded by David Cunningham on The Silver Thistle Collection CD.

  The notes say this dance is for "Carol Anderson who contributes so much to keep the Sutton Coldfield RSCDS running smoothly and the memory of Barry Priddey’s dances alive by organising an annual workshop of his dances. She enjoys her garden as much as her dancing hence the title."


created: 1997-11-18 23:00:00+00
last_modified: 2021-06-06 10:10:24.79766+00
name: Frost and Snow
ucname: FROST AND SNOW
intensity_bars: 80 88 44 88
notes:
  Frost and Snow (together with A Trip to Glasgow) were the two new dances taught by Jean Milligan at the Palace of Art in Glasgow on 3 December 1977. Jean Milligan died in 1978 and this was the last time she taught in Glasgow.


created: 1997-04-03 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2021-06-19 21:21:46.192795+00
name: Darling Diversion, The
ucname: DARLING DIVERSION
intensity_bars: 8440/8880/8464/8088
devised: 1991-05-06
notes:
  According to the dance notes, during the latter half of the 18th century, Scottish Dancing was known as the Darling Diversion.


created: 2001-07-19 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2021-07-10 04:25:03.99196+00
name: Aad's Farewell to Delft
ucname: AADS FAREWELL TO DELFT
intensity_bars: 6666/6666/8080/0808/8080/0808/8888/8888
devised: 1997-01-01
notes:
  Dance devised for Aad Boode on the occasion of his departure to Dublin, July 1997. To thank Aad for all he did for the Delft Branch during 28 years.


created: 1997-09-07 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2023-04-09 10:55:44.135977+00
name: Laggan Falls, The
ucname: LAGGAN FALLS
notes:
  For Phil Bowlen of Bundoora.

  The Laggan Falls are on the Isle of Mull, two miles to the north of Ulva Ferry, near the shores of Loch Tuath.


created: 2018-06-11 09:15:11.252059+00
last_modified: 2021-06-06 11:25:26.308082+00
name: White Tornado, The
ucname: WHITE TORNADO
intensity_bars: 888/800/880/844
devised: 2011-05-01
notes:
  This dance is for my second cat, Ajax. Ajax was purported to be a pure-bred Persian without papers. He was a long-haired white cat with a slightly pushed-in face, but without the extreme features of a Persian. I found him in a newspaper ad, and the day I picked him up he earned his name.  
  I was driving home with him in a cardboard carrying case when I stopped to pick something up at the store (only away 10 minutes really). When I returned he was nowhere in sight. After searching the car multiple times, I started driving sadly home, when I heard him crying. He had crawled up behind the dashboard. I finally extracted him by opening the glove compartment and pulling him out. At that time the ad for Ajax Cleanser called it the ‘white tornado’ and I felt it applied to my little white kitten.  
  He was loving and fun and had a great time teasing Misty.


created: 2013-03-15 23:47:17.355862+00
last_modified: 2021-06-06 11:55:33.215555+00
name: Portsonachan
ucname: PORTSONACHAN
intensity_bars: 800 800 880 880
devised: 2013-03-16
notes:
  1-8 First couple dance a figure of eight on the sides, first woman in front of the second, and behind the third; first man similarly. Hands should be given where possible.

  9-16 First couple dances a figure of eight across the dance around the second couple.

  17-24 First and second couples dance four hands across and back, finishing in the centre ready for a poussette.

  25-32 First and second couples dance a poussette.

  Repeat, having passed a couple.

  Devised 16th March 2013. This is a teaching dance for our influx of beginners who were having dificulty with figures of eight across/on the sides. Plus I had just taught poussette. Portsonachan means \port of peace", and is a Hotel on Loch Awe where Kristin and I stayed during Easter 2012. The setting is quite lovely, and we had a great time, while experiencing a rather surreal (but friendly) hotel experience involving lost bookings, cold water, delightfully eccentric Spanish waiter, remarkable furniture and many other adventures. 


created: 2021-06-07 16:05:42.152965+00
last_modified: 2021-06-07 16:05:42.152965+00
name: Ngaio Gold
ucname: NGAIO GOLD
notes:
  To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Ngaio SCD Club. The original tune (name unknown) was composed by Aileen Logie.

  Source: <<https://youtu.be/mKwK0FGn2oU|youtube video>>.


created: 1999-10-16 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2021-06-08 09:26:31.554661+00
name: Finlay Stewart Skinner
ucname: FINLAY STEWART SKINNER
intensity_bars: 844 844 888 880
notes:
  The notes say that "the original tune for this dance was commissioned by Heidi Skinner for her husband, Finlay. Finlay, originally from Edinburgh, was recently enveigled into Scottish Country Dancing by Heidi, son Colin and daughter Sheena, all enthusiastic dancers with the Basel group in Switzerland."


created: 2002-12-16 23:00:00+00
last_modified: 2021-06-11 20:24:30.800152+00
name: Ewan Telford's Strathspey
ucname: EWAN TELFORDS STRATHSPEY
intensity_bars: 8008/8888/8888/8448
devised: 1991-01-01
notes:
  The notes for the dance say that "Alison commissioned the tune for her husband Ewan's Christmas in 1990. She devised the dance for his birthday in January 1991."


created: 1998-03-11 23:00:00+00
last_modified: 2021-06-12 09:48:10.664696+00
name: Ellie's Jig
ucname: ELLIES JIG
intensity_bars: 432 432 880 880
devised: 1990-04-06
notes:
  The dance, named for the devisor's wife Ellie, was first taught at the Lethbridge, Alberta, Workshop, April 6-8, 1990. 

  The idea for the non-progressive Knot occurred simultaneously to Ellie and me while we were watching a Knot being performed one evening. An alternative name for the figure is the "Slip Knot."


created: 2002-04-19 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2021-06-12 09:57:58.657255+00
name: Ellen's Request
ucname: ELLENS REQUEST
notes:
  Arrangement: two couple longwise set with an extra person in the centre:  
  ....Top....  
  1M....1W  
  ......C......  
  2M....2W  


created: 2002-05-04 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2021-06-12 10:37:09.340974+00
name: Ben Wyvis
ucname: BEN WYVIS
intensity_bars: 800/888/844/844/888
devised: 1994-01-01
notes:
  Devised in 1994 to celebrate the 18th Anniversary of The Thistle Society, Wigan, and dedicated to the Chairman and Members of the Daten Scottish Country Dance Society.


created: 1998-11-14 23:00:00+00
last_modified: 2021-06-13 08:13:05.516961+00
name: Dunsinane
ucname: DUNSINANE
intensity_bars: 880 866 866 866
devised: 1977-01-01
notes:
  John Drewry wrote in the original description the following teaching note:

  *At the end of their second turn, 1st couple dance down to fourth place on
  Bars 31- 32, while 4th couple *_cast_* up to third place ready to stand
  while the new 2nd and 1st couples dance the figure of eight round them.*


created: 1997-09-11 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2021-06-13 08:31:18.800738+00
name: Dundee Civic Jig
ucname: DUNDEE CIVIC JIG
intensity_bars: 888/888/888/800
notes:
  Dedicated, with kind permission of Lord Provost Martin McManus, to the city of Dundee on the occasion of Dundee's first "Civic Week".


created: 1997-12-28 23:00:00+00
last_modified: 2021-06-13 09:57:47.725227+00
name: Sir James Hamilton
ucname: SIR JAMES HAMILTON
intensity_bars: 800/888/822/888
notes:
  Wikipedia has a long <<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Hamilton_of_Finnart|article>> about James Hamilton of Finnart. The notes to the dance mention his building Craignethan Castle.


created: 2002-11-14 23:00:00+00
last_modified: 2021-06-20 00:01:16.197896+00
name: Twenty-Eighth (28th) July
ucname: TWENTYEIGHTH 28TH JULY
intensity_bars: 8448/8008/4664/6666
devised: 1990-07-01
notes:
  In the Tiki Book, the recommended music is given as the recording "Round About Hullachan" (with lead tune The Reel of Tulloch) whereas in the Red Book the recording "The Clints of Dromore" is suggested.

  Also the last four bars were revised between the versions in the two books.


created: 2021-05-03 10:09:33.578929+00
last_modified: 2021-06-17 08:55:09.818169+00
name: Teddy went for Honey
ucname: TEDDY WENT FOR HONEY
notes:
  Dedicated to Angie who joined to our online dance group with her teddy bear. Angie is the most genuine person, always gives a smile to everyone. I am looking forward to dancing with her in real life as well.

  In the "figure of H" setting in bars 17-20 and 25-28 the joined hands should be across and on the sides, making an H shape in 4 bars.  
  2 ..... 1 --- 3  
   .. L .. R .. L  
  2 --- 1 ..... 3  
  to  
  2 --- 1 ..... 3  
   .. L .. R .. L  
  2 ..... 1 --- 3  


created: 1997-04-03 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2021-06-13 11:20:02.201606+00
name: Westerly Wind
ucname: WESTERLY WIND
devised: 1991-04-16
notes:
  When published in the <<ddpub:Green Book#755>> the music was given as Crieff Fair. In the <<ddpub:Lion Rampant Book#700>> this was changed to a recording of Nottingham Lace.

  The two versions also differ choreographically with the Green Book version having 2nd & 3rd couples also active in bars 1-8 whereas the Lion Rampant version has them standing for 8 bars.


created: 1997-08-24 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2021-06-14 23:14:40.201244+00
name: Springer Fling, The
ucname: SPRINGER FLING
devised: 1991-01-01
notes:
  The notes for the dance say that "anyone who's seen Chris Springer dance, knows that he loves to fling the kilt in a rousing reel or jig..."


created: 1998-11-14 23:00:00+00
last_modified: 2021-06-15 08:42:01.442916+00
name: Ellwyn's Fairy Glen
ucname: ELLWYNS FAIRY GLEN
intensity_bars: 888/800/844/844
notes:
  Although not in the original instructions, clapping three times in bars 26 and 28 as 1st couple cross has become a popular variation.


created: 1997-09-08 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2021-06-15 20:57:02.247119+00
name: McCormick's Reaper
ucname: MACCORMICKS REAPER
notes:
  The notes to the dance explain that: "Cyrus Hall McCormick, 1809-1884, perfected and got the credit for inventing the reaper which was originated by his father, Robert.


created: 2003-01-25 23:00:00+00
last_modified: 2021-06-15 21:04:30.278393+00
name: Man Of Kent's Jig
ucname: MAN OF KENTS JIG
notes:
  The notes say this was "written for one of my favourite people, Dr. Frank H. Morgan, whose ancestry dates back to the Men of Kent, and his two grandchildren, Sarah and Kate, (fair maids of Kent)."


created: 1999-12-16 23:00:00+00
last_modified: 2021-06-15 22:43:36.524301+00
name: Dear Green Place
ucname: DEAR GREEN PLACE
intensity_bars: 844/888/844/888
notes:
  The dances notes say that one explanation for the name 'Glasgow' is that at the time of the city's foundation in the sixth century by Saint Mungo it was known by its Celtic name Glaschu meaning 'dar green place'.


created: 1999-08-06 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2021-06-16 14:02:09.358114+00
name: Jingling Geordie
ucname: JINGLING GEORDIE
notes:
  The notes say that the 62430 in the full name of the dance refers to the number of a 4-4-0 "SC0TT" class locomotive (called Jingling Geordie).


created: 2021-05-03 10:00:06.907961+00
last_modified: 2021-06-16 23:11:43.448979+00
name: Fantastic Grannies
ucname: FANTASTIC GRANNIES
devised: 2020-05-01
notes:
  Dedicated to our lovely dancer Lorna, who turned to a Granny in May 2020. The dance was designed to be able to dance during the lockdown, 2 meters apart (no progression, if it is danced by one couple, they are suggested to be in diagonal position).

  The title of the dance refers to all those lovely people who keep our dancing society together and make everyone so welcomed in the dance, as you are part of the family.


created: 1997-04-03 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2021-06-18 21:59:30.072093+00
name: Cruives of Cree, The
ucname: CRUIVES OF CREE
intensity_bars: 800/822/888/888
notes:
  The notes explain that "the wooded stretch of the River Cree, known as the Cruives of Cree, is situated four miles north-west of Newton Stewart."


created: 2003-01-28 23:00:00+00
last_modified: 2021-06-18 08:22:45.332557+00
name: Dance with Your Soul
ucname: DANCE WITH YOUR SOUL
intensity_bars: 8228/8888/8888/8488
devised: 1984-01-01
notes:
  The dedication, explaining the title, reads "This was a favourite expression of Miss Jean Milligan of Scotland, who, along with Mrs. Ysobel Stewart, was responsible for the revival of SCD in 1923. She made you want to lift your feet off the floor and truly dance with your soul. She often said, 'Dancing is a joyous thing and this must never be sacrificed to a preoccupation with drilling and detail.' We owe her much here in Canada and Ontario where the revival caught on and spread, and for her attention to detail reviving old dances, and setting up standards for teachers and dancers alike."


created: 1997-08-31 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2021-06-19 10:33:06.872456+00
name: Craigower
ucname: CRAIGOWER
devised: 1980-09-01
notes:
  From the notes: "Craigower, at Pitlochry, is approximately 1300 ft high and is climbed by way of quiet road, woodland footpath and the final steep ascent over heather to reach the summit where there are excellent views of the surrounding countryside."


created: 2000-06-20 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2021-06-20 09:54:16.208224+00
name: Copenhagen Strathspey
ucname: COPENHAGEN STRATHSPEY
intensity_bars: 8888 8888 8040 8000 8888
notes:
  Crib posted by Brian Charlton, of Sydney, Australia, 000621, saying. 'I have never seen the original instructions. The dance has connections with Sydney Branch because the Danish Consul and his wife started SCD with the Sydney Scottish Country Dance Circle and started(?) SCD in Copenhagen when they returned home. The Scottish Country Dance Circle was the foundation for the Sydney Branch, so that must have been before 1952. Capt. Bain was, I believe, a member of the Edinburgh Demonstration Team.'


created: 1997-04-03 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2021-07-04 15:51:09.603129+00
name: Fire In The Eastern Hills
ucname: FIRE IN THE EASTERN HILLS
notes:
  The dance "Fire in the Eastern Hills" recalls the 1983 Ash Wednesday fires in the Dandenong Ranges, east of Melbourne. (Source: Southern Stars Book, where the dance is published)


created: 1997-04-03 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2021-06-20 21:26:28.769934+00
name: Weasel, The
ucname: WEASEL
intensity_bars: 848/848/880
devised: 1990-07-01
notes:
  The version in <<ddpub:The Kiwi Book#695>> specifies the music as Calver Lodge. The earlier publication in <<ddpub:The Red Book#757>>  proposes <<ddrec:Kenmure's On and Awa'#930>>.

  The introduction to <<ddpub:The Red Book#757>> says *the title comes from the T.V. series 'The Black Adder' and the immortal lines 'I have a plan so cunning you could pin a tail on it and call it a weasel'.*


created: 1997-04-03 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2021-06-20 23:21:31.761493+00
name: Commodore, The
ucname: COMMODORE
devised: 1990-10-23
notes:
  Skelton writes in the introduction to <<ddpub:Yellow Book#756>> that "as usual I was stuck for a name, and as all the dances have been written with the word processor on my Commodore Amiga Computer, I called it The Commodore."


created: 1997-04-03 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2021-06-21 11:13:30.426951+00
name: Elizabethan Rant
ucname: ELIZABETHAN RANT
intensity_bars: 88880/83863/83863/80800/80800/88888
notes:
  "To celebrate the 21st Anniversary of the Elizabeth Scottish country Dance Group."

  The instructions do not specify which shoulder to pass to start the reel of four in bars 25-32 but as it is preceded and followed by LH turns, LSh reel would flow better.


created: 2021-06-21 20:55:10.0423+00
last_modified: 2021-06-21 20:55:10.0423+00
name: Viento, El
ucname: VIENTO
devised: 2000-06-02
notes:
  Inscribed to "the dancers in New Mexico on the occasion of their weekend Workshop and Ball, 2-4 June 2000".


created: 2021-06-21 21:03:00.09628+00
last_modified: 2021-06-21 21:03:00.09628+00
name: Trestle Bridge, The
ucname: TRESTLE BRIDGE
intensity_bars: 800/880/888/882
devised: 2002-04-01
notes:
  The notes mention the High Level Bridge at the entrance to the city of Lethbridge which was built in 1909 and is the longest and highest trestle bridge in the world.


created: 2021-06-21 21:08:07.432891+00
last_modified: 2021-06-21 21:10:58.264613+00
name: Shalimar
ucname: SHALIMAR
intensity_bars: 880/888/844/844
devised: 2001-09-01
notes:
  According to the dance notes "Shalimar is the name of my parents' home in Glasgow. The dance was devised to honour their 50th wedding anniversary on September 1, 2001."


created: 2005-03-09 23:00:00+00
last_modified: 2021-06-22 11:41:02.381959+00
name: Jig of the Merse, The
ucname: JIG OF THE MERSE
intensity_bars: 800 888 888 888 888
notes:
  This dance was the winner of a Branch competition for a new dance to mark our 50th Birthday celebration.


created: 2002-12-16 23:00:00+00
last_modified: 2021-06-22 18:23:49.840302+00
name: Celebration Jig
ucname: CELEBRATION JIG
intensity_bars: 4884/8008/8888/8008
devised: 1992-01-01
notes:
  For the deviser's parents, Phil and Lawrie Bowlen on the occasion of their Ruby Wedding Anniversary, January 28th 1992. The Bowlens live in Bundoora, Victoria, Australia.


created: 1998-01-05 23:00:00+00
last_modified: 2021-06-22 18:29:03.783879+00
name: Caveman of Culsh, The
ucname: CAVEMAN OF CULSH
intensity_bars: 888/888/880/888
devised: 1981-01-01
notes:
  In the dance notes Drewry writes that "at Culsh, just to the east of Tarland. there ls a well-preserved earth house dating from prehistoric times. I once distinguished myself by falling all my length on the slippery floor, while on a visit with my sister's children, and emerging covered wlth slimy mud."


created: 1997-04-03 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2021-06-22 20:14:06.707385+00
name: Alexandra Hall
ucname: ALEXANDRA HALL
intensity_bars: 888/808/822/800
notes:
  The dance notes explain that "Alexandra Hall is the residence of the University of King's College. For one week in the month of July this residence is the home of Scottish Country Dancers, who take part in the International Scottish Country Dance School. We often wonder, during this week, if the ghosts of past residents are ever disturbed by the goings on!"


created: 2021-06-21 20:41:49.084473+00
last_modified: 2021-06-24 20:04:15.893788+00
name: Mrs. Pamela Cairns
ucname: MRS PAMELA CAIRNS
intensity_bars: 800/888/800/880
devised: 2000-03-04
notes:
  This dance is devised in honour of the wedding of my sister, Pamela Brown, to Gordon Cairns on March 04, 2000 at CrieffHydro, Perthshire, Scotland.  

  1 - 8 Pamela and Gordon led separate lives.  
  9 - 16 Their paths crossed a couple of times.  
  17 - 24 They started dating.  
  25 - 32 They became inseparable.


created: 2002-09-22 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2021-08-02 09:52:28.768673+00
name: Dunblane Holiday
ucname: DUNBLANE HOLIDAY
intensity_bars: 8888/6666/8686/8686/6666/6868/6868/8080/4444/0808/8888
devised: 1994-08-01
notes:
  "This dance was written as a result of the very enjoyable holiday a group of us spent dancing at The Dunblane Hydro, courtesy of Furlong's Travel."


created: 2002-08-29 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2021-08-02 14:09:12.205284+00
name: Dancing Shadows
ucname: DANCING SHADOWS
intensity_bars: 888/820/844/844/844
devised: 1998-01-01
notes:
  Devised in honor of Kathy Kuluga and Tony Smith.

  From the Cincinnati Branch RSCDS website, Feb 01. The lead-change Reels are similar to those in Flight of the Falcon and Pelorus Jack.


created: 2021-06-21 21:17:48.937304+00
last_modified: 2021-10-12 10:48:31.352482+00
name: Journey to Bowen Island
ucname: JOURNEY TO BOWEN ISLAND
intensity_bars: 8888/8888/8888/8424
devised: 1989-06-22
notes:
  Devised in honour of Spencer Gallagher who retired from Lethbridge to Bowen Island, off the coast of Vancouver.


created: 2002-03-02 23:00:00+00
last_modified: 2021-06-28 15:16:52.369021+00
name: Bothwell Brig
ucname: BOTHWELL BRIG
intensity_bars: 862 844 844 844 888
notes:
  According to the TAC "Index of Joihn Drewry's Dance"s:

  Rinty's Rant was reworked and renamed to Bothwell Brig. Thus, Bothwell Brig replaced Rinty's Rant.

  The dance was devised in the 1970ies, but the actual year is unknown.

  The instructions say it is "for Nancy Rintoul of Bellshill". Also that Bothwell Bridge, on the Clyde, is famous as the scene of an encounter between Monmouth and the Covenanters in 1679.


created: 2021-06-21 20:08:24.468805+00
last_modified: 2021-06-24 19:52:00.106176+00
name: Rolling Stones
ucname: ROLLING STONES
intensity_bars: 800/888/888/888
devised: 1995-03-01
notes:
  Every one knows the saying that "a rolling stone gathers no moss". This dance is dedicated to a wonderful couple who decided to retire to the quiet life of Victoria, B.C. and who now spend their days hiking, skiing, sailing and camping. Their evenings are  spent Scottish Country Dancing. Old age will never catch up to Mike and Mary Hanna as they don't stand still long enough to give it a chance. True rolling stones. March 1995.


created: 1998-11-02 23:00:00+00
last_modified: 2021-06-26 08:56:08.072071+00
name: Calgary Stampede, The
ucname: CALGARY STAMPEDE
intensity_bars: 800/822/822/866/888
devised: 1977-01-01
notes:
  The notes explain the figures in the dance as representing:  
  (1 - 8) Visitors come from all around to Calgary  
  (9 - 16) They receive a warm welcome in the Stampede City  
  (17 - 24) There is dancing in the streets  
  (25 - 32) The midway on the Stampede grounds  
  (33 - 40) The Rodeo infield.  


created: 2021-06-27 22:25:28.873784+00
last_modified: 2021-06-27 22:42:00.804982+00
name: Selkie Fowk, The
ucname: SELKIE FOWK
intensity_bars: 880/844/866/888
devised: 2021-04-26
notes:
  Along the north and west coasts and islands of Scotland there  are many stories and songs telling of the Selkies, (the seal people) who are  reputed to be able to shape change from seals into humans. They mix and marry into the local communities but almost always the lure of the sea is too much and they return to their sea homes in the shape of seals.  

  Fowk is the Scottish variant of Folk, especially in Orkney: the word is also to be found in the Yorkshire dictionary of 1887. The last 8 bars shows the sea waves swirling in & pulling the Selkies back into the sea.  

  Bars 9-16 are based on the movement ‘Swing Corners,’ from Thomas Wilson’s 1811 Manual, “Analysis of Country Dancing”.


created: 1998-01-04 23:00:00+00
last_modified: 2021-06-28 09:00:28.049035+00
name: Buck's Reel
ucname: BUCKS REEL
intensity_bars: 880/880/888/844/888
devised: 1977-07-01
notes:
  In memory of Buck Little.

  The dance was first taught and danced at Pinewoods in July 1977, and first published in the Tartan Times for September 1977.


created: 2001-09-03 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2021-08-02 14:15:12.862146+00
name: Love's Knot Forgotten
ucname: LOVES KNOT FORGOTTEN
intensity_bars: 888/888/808/880
devised: 1997-01-01
notes:
  This dance can easily be done once and to the bottom, just by having the dancing couple Knot themselves to the bottom of the set.


created: 1997-09-17 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2021-06-28 10:17:15.302532+00
name: Brownie Of Blednoch, The
ucname: BROWNIE OF BLEDNOCH
intensity_bars: 844/888/800/880
devised: 1988-01-01
notes:
  In the dance notes the deviser writes that it "was devised for introducing reels of three in a beginners class. The dance works well in a three couple set, since only the 1st couple starts and the reel is not the first or last figure.

  The name of the dance came from an old Scottish Borders myth about a brownie. The brownie's name was Aikendrum, the Brownie of Blednoch, from a poem of that name by William Nicholson."


created: 2021-04-14 11:04:18.427325+00
last_modified: 2021-06-27 11:36:39.83618+00
name: Trip to Saint-Palais, A
ucname: TRIP TO SAINTPALAIS
intensity_bars: 8888/8008/8008/8888
devised: 2018-01-01
notes:
  Devised by Mathias Ferber, Emma Orgeret, Antoine Rousseau and Claude Schnitter, in Paris, 2018.  

  Dedicated to Danièle Landrieau for her birthday. Saint‐Palais is a lovely town in the Gironde estuary, on the south west coast of France.


created: 1997-04-03 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2021-07-03 12:13:51.980859+00
name: Barbara McOwen's Ceilidh
ucname: BARBARA MACOWENS CEILIDH
intensity_bars: 880 888 888 866
notes:
  The notes for the dance explain that:
  The original tune for this dance was commissioned by Evelyn for Barbara McOwen to thank her for all her help in the production of the recording ''The Pipes Awa' Wi' the Fiddle".
  Barbara is a renowned fiddler/arranger in the Scottish music scene throughout North America.


created: 2021-03-04 12:12:09.144495+00
last_modified: 2021-07-01 05:58:51.303556+00
name: Leverburgh Ferry, The
ucname: LEVERBURGH FERRY
intensity_bars: 880/888/880/808
devised: 2012-01-01
notes:
  The Leverburgh ferry runs from Leverburgh (Obbe), South Harris to Bernara , which is joined by a causeway to North Uist. The ferry zig zags across the Sound of Harris to avoid submerged rocks and other dangers. An area of 12 foot tides & strong currents.


created: 2002-03-14 23:00:00+00
last_modified: 2021-07-03 12:34:16.738247+00
name: Corrievreckan
ucname: CORRIEVRECKAN
intensity_bars: 55 55 55 55 88 44 88 88 bis
devised: 1996-01-01
notes:
  Dedicated to the late Frank Riley, past Chairman of the Lakes SCD Club, forester, sailor, mountaineer and much more besides.  Corrievreckan was one of Frank's favourite places.


created: 2021-10-02 04:06:23.025453+00
last_modified: 2021-10-14 09:20:58.564903+00
name: Bypass, The
ucname: BYPASS
devised: 2005-05-01
notes:
  Written for Alan Nicolle, who came through his quadruple heart bypass with flying colours in May 2005.


created: 2021-06-27 07:03:41.901254+00
last_modified: 2022-04-25 20:30:38.106099+00
name: Lochmaddy
ucname: LOCHMADDY
intensity_bars: 880/848/888/668
devised: 2012-05-01
notes:
  Lochmaddy is the ferry Terminal on the Island of North Uist.  

  Note: the 'circulating allemande' in bars 17 -24 was devised by Terry Glasspool.


created: 2002-02-28 23:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-08-20 08:31:42.015765+00
name: Bullers of Buchan, The
ucname: BULLERS OF BUCHAN
intensity_bars: 880/888/666/666
devised: 1991-02-01
notes:
  Drewry explains in his notes for that dance that:  
  The Bullers of Buchan are a rock formation in the cliffs north of Cruden Bay, Aberdeenshire. The most impressive feature is "The Pot" - a circular basin surrounded by tremendous rocks and with a narrow cave-like opening through which the sea flows into the cauldron. It is possible to enter the pot by rowing boat.  
  Dr Johnson and Boswell visited the Bullers in 1773.  


created: 2001-12-16 23:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-12-01 16:29:33.16531+00
name: Bonny Bells of Heather, The
ucname: BONNY BELLS OF HEATHER
intensity_bars: 808808/888888/800008/808808
notes:
  The title is from the Robert Louis Stevenson poem about the legend of Heather Ale:  
  *From the bonny bells of heather*  
  *They brewed a drink long-syne,*  
  *Was sweeter far than honey,*  
  *Was stronger far than wine.*  


created: 2021-07-08 15:15:11.126273+00
last_modified: 2021-07-09 01:06:47.22572+00
name: Afke's Farwol
ucname: AFKES FARWOL
intensity_bars: 800/888/844/844
devised: 2016-06-01
notes:
  Dance devised for Afke Bergstra  on her farewell to the Delft Branch of the RSCDS, after dancing for nearly 30 years. June 2016.  
  Farwol' is Frisian for Farewell.


created: 2000-02-21 23:00:00+00
last_modified: 2023-05-15 13:46:21.661479+00
name: Black Mountain Reel, The
ucname: BLACK MOUNTAIN REEL
intensity_bars: 80800 82842 84884 84844
devised: 1968-01-01
notes:
  First published on a Glendarroch SCD Sheet in 1968.

  It is not entirely clear which mountain provided the title for this dance – possibly Twyn Lech on the English-Welsh border. <<ddp:Haynes, Derek>>, the author of this dance, was a passionate hill-walker.


created: 1998-04-05 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2023-06-23 21:11:39.226552+00
name: Bramble Circle, The
ucname: BRAMBLE CIRCLE
notes:
  Suited for Reel as well as Jig time (stated explicitly in the description of the dance).

  "Written in honour of Seattle's Bramble Band members who give generously of their time to play for many 'audience paticipation' events."


created: 2021-03-04 12:17:01.523167+00
last_modified: 2021-07-02 16:38:20.155429+00
name: Staying Home with an Imp
ucname: STAYING HOME WITH AN IMP
intensity_bars: 800/880/844/888
devised: 2020-06-01
notes:
  The Imp in question is The Lincoln Imp otherwise my husband Keith.

  The _Half Rondel_ is a formation by John Drewry and is first described in his Rondel book (1967) . It appears in his dances Marischal College and Twa Rogueish Een, and is not to be confused with half of a Rondel, The Half Rondel is another of John Drewry's formations which has not been used by the RSCDS, so does not appear in the manual. Drewry devised it for use in Reels and Jigs as the Strathspey Rondel does not translate well into the faster tempos.


created: 2001-10-30 23:00:00+00
last_modified: 2021-07-02 20:18:21.555488+00
name: Fun in the Sun
ucname: FUN IN THE SUN
devised: 1999-01-01
notes:
  Queenslanders have a reputation for having an easy-going lifestyle, in a state that is “beautiful one day--perfect the next”. This is a friendly, fun dance to reflect our way of life. May also be danced in Strathspey time. Suitable music would be “Ross Meor” from Book 29. Music for Ten Traditional Dances by Bobby Crowe and his Scottish Dance Band.

  [Details supplied in <<https://my.strathspey.org/dd/issue/2530/|issue 2530>>].


created: 2021-03-04 12:18:19.61131+00
last_modified: 2021-07-03 11:36:33.960059+00
name: Blind Summit
ucname: BLIND SUMMIT
intensity_bars: 8888/8888/8668/8228
devised: 2015-10-01
notes:
  There are Blind Summit signs on many roads in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland, warning drivers that the road dips, so oncoming traffic cannot be seen. Particularly dangerous on the Island of Harris where the roads are also one track with passing places. 

  For Norma and Mike Briggs who had such a road near their home in Wisconsin, USA


created: 1998-04-29 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2021-07-03 12:44:26.318933+00
name: Banff Hornpipe
ucname: BANFF HORNPIPE
intensity_bars: 808/484/888/888
devised: 1994-01-01
notes:
  Inscribed "for Alasdair Fraser of N. San Juan, California, formerly of Clackmannan, who plays 'Banks Hornpipe' exquisitely."


created: 1998-07-08 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2021-07-03 14:01:26.232255+00
name: Balvenie Castle
ucname: BALVENIE CASTLE
intensity_bars: 8888/8888/8888/0088
devised: 1994-01-01
notes:
  From the dance notes: "Balvenie Castle is just to the north of Dufftown, near the River Fiddich, and quite close to the Glenfiddich Distillery."


created: 2000-09-05 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2021-07-03 14:05:06.271888+00
name: Balquidder Strathspey
ucname: BALQUIDDER STRATHSPEY
intensity_bars: 888 888 800 822
notes:
  Balquhidder (the modern spelling) is a village in the Highlands, near
  Stirling. Traditionally it belonged to Clan MacLaren, until during the
  16th century the neighbouring MacGregors began to encroach on the area
  and forced the MacLarens to share it with them. The famed Rob Roy
  MacGregor is buried in Balquhidder.

  The »quh« in »Balquhidder« is pronounced like »w«, so the place is
  Bal-WID-der rather than Bal-KWID-der. (The same applies to other
  Scottish names like »Urquhart« or »Colquhoun«.)


created: 1997-09-14 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2021-07-03 21:45:35.36897+00
name: Struan Reel, The
ucname: STRUAN REEL
devised: 1962-04-11
notes:
  Dedicated to Robert R. Gourlay.

  Published as a leaflet (see <<https://my.strathspey.org/dd/issue/2515/|issue 2515>>).


created: 1998-01-04 23:00:00+00
last_modified: 2021-07-03 21:50:12.458975+00
name: Stanley Reel, The
ucname: STANLEY REEL
devised: 1964-01-01
notes:
  According to <<https://my.strathspey.org/dd/issue/2517/|issue 2517>> this was devised in honour of Stanley Greenberg for his devoted service to the New York Branch of the RSCDS. It was first danced by the members of the New York Branch, on the occasion of the Fifth Anniversary as a Branch of the Society, at the Holiday Hills Week-end in Pawling, New York.

  Published as a leaflet.


created: 2002-05-01 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2021-07-04 11:03:20.82235+00
name: Bottle Forest, The
ucname: BOTTLE FOREST
intensity_bars: 800/800/880/888/844
devised: 1993-01-01
notes:
  The dance notes explain that "Bottle Forest was the original name for the parish of Heathcote, where the dance composer lived when the dance was devised. It was named by the first surveyor in the area when he found a bottle lodged in the fork of a tree."


created: 1997-04-03 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2021-07-04 15:51:27.744412+00
name: White Lady, The
ucname: WHITE LADY
notes:
  The White Lady haunts the Court Cave, at MacDuff Castle, Wemyss, Fife. (Source: Southern Stars Book, where the dance is published)


created: 1997-08-31 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2021-07-04 15:52:23.127856+00
name: Cockle Mill
ucname: COCKLE MILL
notes:
  Cockle Mill milled grain, and later iron, near the mouth of the River Almond, Cramond. Now only a ruin. (Source: Southern Stars Book, where the dance is published)


created: 2007-02-21 23:00:00+00
last_modified: 2021-07-06 20:26:01.578599+00
name: Crabbit Shona
ucname: CRABBIT SHONA
intensity_bars: 80 88 80 88
notes:
  In <<sspey:12277|Strathspey Message 12277>> on 14 Jun 1998 Rebecca Sager writes:  (This is just a teaching exercise, a blend of Galloway House and Leap Year. The name and music are still available for a real dance) 

  32 Bar Jig for 2 couples, in a 3 couple set. (Music is 6x32)

  1-8: 1C cast behind own lines turn outward and dance back up to place

  9-16: 1C and 2C dance right hands across, left hands back

  17-24: 1C lead down for 3 steps, up for 3 steps, cast into 2nd place as 2C step up

  25-32: 2C and 1C dance rights and lefts


created: 1998-10-21 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2021-07-06 20:53:02.083098+00
name: Glendarroch
ucname: GLENDARROCH
notes:
  This dance was devised by <<ddp:Iain Boyd#44>> in memory of <<ddp:Hugh Foss#129>>. Profits from the sale of the original leaflet were to be used for the publication of Hugh Foss's unpublished dances (info from <<https://my.strathspey.org/dd/issue/2521/|issue 2521>>).


created: 2021-07-10 13:17:15.074586+00
last_modified: 2021-07-10 14:59:15.712191+00
name: Markinch Mars Bar King, The
ucname: MARKINCH MARS BAR KING
intensity_bars: 800/866/888/888
devised: 2021-06-29
notes:
  Written to celebrate Bill Ewan's 80th Birthday on 29th June 2021  
  As everyone knows Bill's greatest indulgence is a Mars Bar!


created: 1998-11-02 23:00:00+00
last_modified: 2021-07-11 15:46:04.055884+00
name: Grand Macnish, The
ucname: GRAND MACNISH
intensity_bars: 800/888/888/808
devised: 1976-01-01
notes:
  This was first danced on 11 October 1976, the final day of the 3rd Annual Canadian Rockies Workshop. Dedicated to Robert Macnish & Co. Ltd., Glasgow, for their support and donations to the Workshop Banquet. 


created: 2021-07-08 15:11:42.115153+00
last_modified: 2021-07-18 05:04:56.019479+00
name: MacLouis is Ready for Hibernation
ucname: MACLOUIS IS READY FOR HIBERNATION
intensity_bars: 840/844/844/800
devised: 2017-08-30
notes:
  Dance devised for Louis Brijer on the occasion of his last workingday  August 30, 2017, by Anne-Miek Klokgieters, The Hague.  
  “Now the job is done, it’s time to sleep”  

  Reel time: working life  
  Strathspey time: time to rest


created: 2021-07-15 21:55:57.381328+00
last_modified: 2021-07-15 21:55:57.381328+00
name: Reel of the Neutrino
ucname: REEL OF THE NEUTRINO
devised: 2015-11-28
notes:
  From the <<https://www.scottishcountrydanceoftheday.com/daysoftheyear/reel-of-the-neutrino|Scottish Country Dance of the Day>> site for 13 July.

  Dedicated to Kevin Lesko after the awarding of the 2015 Nobel Prize for Physics to the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO). 

  Neutrinos are one of the fundamental subatomic particles. The are neutral (have no charge) and very small mass which mean they can travel great distances unimpeded and are extremely difficult to detect.


created: 2016-09-09 18:15:58.635844+00
last_modified: 2021-07-15 22:10:38.115902+00
name: Sophie's Farewell
ucname: SOPHIES FAREWELL
intensity_bars: 880/484/888/866
devised: 1988-03-01
notes:
  Devised for the San Gabriel Valley Branch workshop at Lake Arrowhead, as an exercise in continuity. My grandmother used to live near Lake Arrowhead, and this is dedicated to her. There is no recommended tune yet.


created: 2005-04-27 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2021-07-25 20:11:49.129561+00
name: QuintReel
ucname: QUINTREEL
devised: 2003-08-01
notes:
  This dance was devised at the 20th Anniversary camp of the Valley of the Moon Scottish Fiddling School (VOM), California in August 2003.

  It started out as quick Scandinavian Waltz but it works well as a Reel too. If danced as a Waltz read 3/4 turn instead of 1 3/4 turn on bars 9-12 and 41-44.

  Dedicated to VOM and also to my very good friends Archie and Anna Crawford, of Old Urray, Ross-shire, Scotland.


created: 2001-07-18 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2021-07-21 11:47:51.709183+00
name: Reel of the Gordon Highlanders, The
ucname: REEL OF THE GORDON HIGHLANDERS
intensity_bars: 800/888/888/888
devised: 1994-01-01
notes:
  The dance was devised for the Regiment of the Gordon Highlanders on the occasion of its 200th Anniversary in 1994. 

  The inside of the cover of this one dance leaflet also mentions: "The present Regiment stems directly from the amalgamation, in 1881, of the 75th Stirlingshire Regiment and the 92th (Highland) Regiment of Foot. The 92nd, was raised in 1794 as the 100th (Highland) Regiment of Foot - known as the Gordon Highlanders - by Jean, Duchess of Gordon, at a time when Britain faced a war with Revolutionary France. It was renumbered 92nd in 1798. The 75th was raised in 1787 as the 75th Highland Regiment - known as Abercromby's - in the county of Stirling to assist the East Indian Company. On amalgamation in 1881 the new Regiment was named 'The Gordon Highlanders'. In September 1994 the Gordon Highlanders were amalgamated with the Queen's Own Highlanders to form a new regiment 'The Highlanders'."


created: 2021-07-15 22:16:19.898558+00
last_modified: 2021-07-17 08:17:06.979933+00
name: Lionel's Jig
ucname: LIONELS JIG
devised: 2021-07-16
notes:
  On the occasion of the election of Lionel Laffeach as Chairman of Alba Bihan, SCD Group in Séné, on 14th June 2021.


created: 1997-04-03 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2021-07-17 21:00:25.005402+00
name: Sea-Horse Frolic
ucname: SEAHORSE FROLIC
intensity_bars: 8080/8448/8844/8888
devised: 1974-12-01
notes:
  The dance was written to celebrate the inauguration of the Hunter Valley Branch (Newcastle, NSW, Australia). According to the dance notes the title was derived from the devise in Lieutenant John Shortland's Coat of Arms. He was the leader of the first colonial expedition in 1794 to where Newcastle now stands.


created: 2021-07-08 15:18:23.593072+00
last_modified: 2021-08-04 17:48:31.674579+00
name: Three Guirlandes, The
ucname: THREE GUIRLANDES
devised: 2015-01-01
notes:
  "Dance devised for Jan and Wil Werner who will be 75 and for Edwin who will be 40 this year (2015). The three of them were living on the address Guirlande 3."


created: 2021-08-16 00:07:27.5936+00
last_modified: 2021-08-16 14:20:13.456047+00
name: Burnett Strathspey, The
ucname: BURNETT STRATHSPEY
intensity_bars: 888/888/866/888
devised: 2010-10-01
notes:
  Devised in October 2010 for Valerie Westgate, friend and fellow member of St. Andrew’s of Brampton, whose grandmother’s maiden name was Burnett – Valerie’s only claim to a Scottish connection.


created: 2002-08-29 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2021-07-18 08:45:37.91402+00
name: Ann Skipper's Reel
ucname: ANN SKIPPERS REEL
devised: 1988-01-01
notes:
  This was my first dance. I wrote it to honor Ann Skipper, founder of the Clan MacLeod Dancers and dance mistress of Clan MacLeod USA. It has become a staple of the Clan MacLeod Dancers demonstration team in southern California, and was published in 1994 in Ann's new collection, If the Ghillie Fits. 32 bar reel in a square set. 1988. (Wayback Machine source).


created: 2002-09-22 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2021-08-02 09:47:37.943093+00
name: Golden Heather
ucname: GOLDEN HEATHER
intensity_bars: 8282/8888/4848/8888/4444/8888/8888/8888
devised: 1995-01-01
notes:
  This dance was written to celebrate the birthday of my very good friend Heather Redshaw.

  However the devisor does not consider this dance works well *(comment received from Sue Petyt by email)*.


created: 2002-09-22 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2021-08-02 10:02:15.512608+00
name: Half and Half
ucname: HALF AND HALF
devised: 1998-02-01
notes:
  The first couple dance the first four bars of several figures with second couple, and then dance, the second half of each figure, in reverse order from second place with the third couple.

  However the devisor does not consider this dance works well *(comment received from Sue Petyt by email)*.


created: 2015-09-03 14:05:35.214019+00
last_modified: 2021-07-20 09:56:02.141824+00
name: On Bidborough Ridge
ucname: ON BIDBOROUGH RIDGE
intensity_bars: 44448/88888/44448/88888
devised: 2007-01-01
notes:
  Bidborough Ridge has great views and a bracing breeze which give one a good feeling. Hopefully so will this lively dance matched to a foot –tapping set of tunes   

  Explanation of the figure "R&L for 5 dancers".   The corners dance a standard R&L figure, but  the centre dancer dances out on a diagonal, links up with a crossing  pair of dancers to dance a half Tpot with them and finish outside the set. He or she then dances back across the set  in parallel with this pair to repeat the half Tpot with them on the opposite side of the set., again finishing outside the set. Note that if asked to join in on the first 2 bars of the figure, the centre dancer can dance back into the centre on bars 7&8.  Source: <<http://www.minicrib.org.uk/Publications/Bardill-Prince/Diamond%20Set%20-Jig/5Index%20notes.pdf>>.


created: 2003-07-17 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2021-07-21 12:18:10.702837+00
name: Reel of the Transvaal Scottish, The
ucname: REEL OF THE TRANSVAAL SCOTTISH
intensity_bars: 800 800 866 880
devised: 2002-01-01
notes:
  This dance was devised for the Tranvaal Scottish Regiment on the occasion of its Centenary 2002.

  The inside of the cover of this one dance leaflet also mentions about the The Tranvaal Scottish:

  On 9 June 1902, shortly after the Anglo-Boer War had ended, the Marquis of Tullibardine raised the Tranvaal Scottish Volunteers, as an infantry unit to be part of the embryonic Defence Fore of the Transvaal Colony. In 1910 the name was changed into The Transvaal Scottish. In October 1927, the Transvaal Scottish was affiliated to The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment).

  Sidenote: According to Aad Boode (the deviser of the dance), the tune was also composed by Bill Clement also in 2002 (same year as the dance itself). 

  Bill Clement (the composer of the dance's tune) served in The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) from May 1942 to April 1947; he joined the 10th Battalion Pipe Band in January 1943 and was acting Pipe-Major from January 1946. He joined the Atholl Highlanders in October 1947.


created: 2002-02-28 23:00:00+00
last_modified: 2021-07-22 09:47:04.032855+00
name: This Cordial Jig
ucname: THIS CORDIAL JIG
intensity_bars: 66/88/88/88
devised: 1993-01-01
notes:
  A 32 bar jig to open the Tenth Annual Ball of the Scottish Country Dance Society of Washington D.C.

  The last 8 bars are danced with the 'new' couple.

  The title in the <<https://my.strathspey.org/dd/publication/554/|2nd edition (1993) Bicentennial book>> of Harry Ways has the title "This Cordial Jig". There are also references to just "Cordial Jig" (see  <<https://my.strathspey.org/dd/issue/2562/|issue 2562>>). The shorter name is kept as an alias as that is the name currently used by MiniCrib.


created: 1997-09-14 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2021-07-25 16:51:09.906711+00
name: Sisters of Kintail, The
ucname: SISTERS OF KINTAIL
devised: 1969-01-01
notes:
  Originally dedicated (1969) to Ron and Susan Nedderman, Cambridge, England.
  Susan was a superb, much-loved teacher to generations of Scottish dancers, who died in April 2000.
  Her  husband Ron continued to teach advanced Hugh Foss and John Drewry dances for many years but died in May 2021. 

  Adrian writes: This is a demonstration dance, Medley 64S + 64*R (*- extra, optionally, for dancing off), for 5 couples initially in a longwise set, but evolving to an open circle for the start of the reel and ending in a pentagram formation. Large space needed.  Highly geometrical, the reel section has five-fold rotational symmetry, and there are pentagons in some of the strathspey figures as well. 36 diagrams provided.  Danced just once through.  Dance intensity: Strathspey virtually 100%, Reel 100%.
  No crib is made by ETF for demonstration dances.


created: 1997-09-13 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2021-07-25 20:01:35.465542+00
name: Russian Fling Reel, The
ucname: RUSSIAN FLING REEL
devised: 1998-04-01
notes:
  For 4 Couples in a Longwise Rotating Set. Devised in April 1988 to commemorate the visit of ”A Russian Fling” tour, led by Mr Bob Blackie, Canada, to Stockholm in May 1988.


created: 2019-07-25 09:02:09.141203+00
last_modified: 2021-07-25 20:17:01.839461+00
name: Drummer and the Dancer, The
ucname: DRUMMER AND THE DANCER
intensity_bars: 800/888/888/888
devised: 2017-04-01
notes:
  For Anders and Susanne Gjörling.

  Anders and Susanne met in the Stockholm Scottish Country Dance Club in 1969. Susanne had been dancing then for a while and Anders was a drummer in the newly formed Thistle Pipe Band. He had been ordered by the Pipe Major to learn to dance, to be able to perform the sword dance at the bands performances. This initiative to bring a lot of young bandsmen together with a lot of young female dancers was very successful and Anders and Susanne’s marriage in 1973 was one of a total of four marriages not counting several other flings.

  The instructions for bars 31-32 as published in the original Scandinavian Book PDF were slightly mangled in the editing process. They should read:  
  *1st couple cross down to third place giving right hands, while 3rd couple cast up to second place to finish the reel and 2nd couple use the two bars to dance a polite turn in place.*


created: 2021-08-16 22:37:12.302183+00
last_modified: 2021-08-16 22:42:17.052876+00
name: Robin Hood's Bay
ucname: ROBIN HOODS BAY
intensity_bars: 8888/8888/8000/8000
devised: 1998-06-06
notes:
  Robin Hood's Bay is a quaint fishing village on the east coast of England.

  The dance was devised for audience participation dancing or a first night of class. It can be done in a 3-couple set.


created: 2016-01-27 16:31:06.133923+00
last_modified: 2021-07-26 14:49:24.173065+00
name: Dance to Say Thank You, A
ucname: DANCE TO SAY THANK YOU
intensity_bars: 8220/8880/8220/8080/8022/8088/8022/8008
notes:
  Note : the strathspey part is danced with 2nd and 3rd couples and the reel part with 3rd and 4th couples, 1st couple having finished in 2nd place at the end of the Diamond Poussette.

  This dance is dedicated to Avril and David Quarrie, two amazing dancers, teachers, and people. It has been written to thank them for their unwavering support to so many young dancers (including myself) whom they’ve encouraged to keep dancing and improving, as well as making them discover a real passion.
  This dance may also be used by anyone to say thank you to anyone else because, sometimes, we just don’t say it enough.  
  *(from the webpage/book)*


created: 2002-09-22 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2021-07-30 03:31:57.907363+00
name: Mrs Bunty Somes
ucname: MRS BUNTY SOMES
intensity_bars: 8800/8044/8880/8822/8000
devised: 1995-08-01
notes:
  Mrs  Bunty  Somes  was  a  well  loved,  much  treasured,  long  standing  member  of Scunthorpe Scottish Country Dance Club. 


created: 2021-07-26 20:10:48.65051+00
last_modified: 2021-08-22 20:08:13.749786+00
name: Banffshire Centenarian, The
ucname: BANFFSHIRE CENTENARIAN
intensity_bars: 48884/48884/80000/88888
notes:
  2nd couple's path represents the "1" of the number "100" and the other couples' circles represent the two zeros.  


created: 2001-05-20 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2021-12-01 22:54:11.756832+00
name: Cordial Jig TRANSFER LINKS TO This Cordial Jig 6536
ucname: CORDIAL JIG TRANSFER LINKS TO THIS CORDIAL JIG 6536
intensity_bars: 66/88/88/88
notes:
  This dance is an accidental duplicate of <<ddd:This Cordial Jig#6536>>. It should be deleted. However it appears on several dance lists so cannot be removed so easily.


created: 2013-03-14 09:59:14.71772+00
last_modified: 2021-08-02 19:54:51.135203+00
name: Lamp Black Lizzie
ucname: LAMP BLACK LIZZIE
intensity_bars: 8008/8008/8888/8888/8888
notes:
  Devised by Pat Davoll, in 2007, in memory of Lizzie Vasey, who danced regularly with the East Grinstead Scottish Dance Club and Oxford University Scottish Dance Society. Lamp black is a fine black powder used in pest control, where Lizzie used to work. When she used it, Lizzie would invariably end up covered in it; hence her nickname of "Lamp Black Lizzie".


created: 2003-11-29 23:00:00+00
last_modified: 2021-08-02 20:04:58.154743+00
name: Hope for Harriet
ucname: HOPE FOR HARRIET
devised: 2003-01-01
notes:
  For Roderick Nobes.  

  Roderick passed his Teacher’s Certificate examination in 2001, teaching "Lady Harriet Hope’s Reel" as his test dance.  
  This dance avoids the teaching points of that dance and introduces some new ones.


created: 2018-10-02 20:45:10.567088+00
last_modified: 2021-08-10 18:44:20.131422+00
name: Scholar's Bus, The
ucname: SCHOLARS BUS
intensity_bars: 808/888/888/888
devised: 2013-12-01
notes:
  In the mid 1950s my sister & I attended Finsbay School on the Island of Harris for a short while. The same school my father & his siblings attended in the years after the Great War. The Quidinish scholars who lived far from the school had to walk to the nearest roadhead, as there was no road down to their crofts, & from there they would catch a ride in a van to school. The van passed my aunt's house & as she was the school teacher, both she & my sister & I had a ride to school.


created: 1998-10-31 23:00:00+00
last_modified: 2021-08-03 11:29:06.053686+00
name: Jeep's Jig
ucname: JEEPS JIG
devised: 1961-01-01
notes:
  Jeep was the pug dog belonging to Captain Elder, for many years Bedellus of the university and honorary president of New Scotland. Jeep was adopted as New Scotland mascot, and when he died, his successor, Jeep II, was adopted likewise.


created: 2018-10-17 19:27:00.057199+00
last_modified: 2021-08-10 18:46:34.821811+00
name: Erindale Jig, The
ucname: ERINDALE JIG
intensity_bars: 800/888/844/888
devised: 2014-03-01
notes:
  Devised for the Sunday Teachers' Workshop, Mississauga, Canada, March 2014, with thanks to the Demonstration Class at Edinburgh University for acting as guinea pigs!  
   Transitions from pas de basque into slip step into skip change  
   Lengthening skip change in bars 17 - 24  
   Handing in bars 3 - 6, 9 - 16, 17 - 24, 25 - 32  
   Not too tiring for supporting couples as a first dance in a class  
   Only 1s begin so can be used as a once-and-to-the-bottom dance if numbers are low  
   A World shortage of simple jigs to begin a class with!  


created: 2021-07-30 12:54:52.832507+00
last_modified: 2021-08-04 02:17:24.366395+00
name: Jig to St. Benedict, A
ucname: JIG TO ST BENEDICT
intensity_bars: 8008/8888/8888/8008
notes:
  Dance devised by Patricia and John Cass with help from the Thursday Afternoon Class and sold in aid of St Benedict's Hospice, Sunderland.


created: 2004-03-18 23:00:00+00
last_modified: 2021-08-10 19:04:01.966517+00
name: Tam o' Shanter
ucname: TAM O SHANTER
intensity_bars: 8000/8000/0888/8888/4004
notes:
  Story to go with the dance  
  1  -  8  Tam looks for his horse  
  9  - 16 Tam and horse (Meg) ride for home  
  17 - 24 Witches dancing (one is a really good dancer)  
  25 - 32 Witches chase Tam and Meg  
  33 - 40 The only way to escape witches in 18th century Scotland was to cross running water, so Tam and horse escape over a bridge.   Leading witch was a fast runner as well as a good dancer and she grabs the horses tail and pulls it off.


created: 2001-07-19 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2021-08-04 17:40:28.263077+00
name: Life Begins at Fifty
ucname: LIFE BEGINS AT FIFTY
intensity_bars: 8448 0880 8888 8444
devised: 1995-01-01
notes:
  "Dance devised for Tom and Anja Wetemans on the occasion of their 50th anniversary April 2 and September 8, 1995."


created: 2002-12-01 23:00:00+00
last_modified: 2021-08-10 12:05:47.20264+00
name: Salute to Noel Lillie
ucname: SALUTE TO NOEL LILLIE
intensity_bars: 8888/8448/8888/8008
devised: 1985-01-01
notes:
  Dance devised for Noel Lillie, of Seattle, for his unselfish help in starting the Portland Scottish Country Dance Club.


created: 1998-10-18 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2021-08-14 21:43:10.491603+00
name: Bonnie Hoose o' Airlie, The
ucname: BONNIE HOOSE O AIRLIE
intensity_bars: 4444/8888/8080/8888/8888/8888/0808/8888/8888/8888/7777/8888/8888/8888
notes:
  Versions of the instructions variously use "of Airlie" and "o' Airlie", Jig and Reel and in bars 29-32 the turns are sometimes with two hands and sometimes with the right hand.


created: 2013-07-24 14:57:30.352562+00
last_modified: 2021-08-15 06:07:58.114802+00
name: Start Your Engines
ucname: START YOUR ENGINES
intensity_bars: 844/844/844/888
devised: 2012-06-26
notes:
  Devised by Ellen Ternes (ellenter [at] comcast.net) after learning, with great glee, that the very Italian-looking Dario Franchitti, winner of the 2012 Indy 500 race, is very Scottish!

  Suggested music: "Flights of Fancy," from Celebrate 50 Years of Dancing with the
  Boston Branch.

  The deviser is non-committal about the music, even noting that it could be danced as a reel.


created: 2002-08-25 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2021-10-11 22:40:57.182113+00
name: Falkirk Lass, The
ucname: FALKIRK LASS
intensity_bars: 800 888 844 888
devised: 2000-01-01
notes:
  Elaine, who was born in Falkirk, went to Dunfermline College of Physical Education in Edinburgh where she danced to Muriel, neither of them having any idea of the connection that would be made later in the USA. Elaine now teaches in Virginia and is an enthusiastic ambassador for music and dance all over North America.


created: 2002-11-19 23:00:00+00
last_modified: 2021-08-06 08:51:00.067639+00
name: Dance for Forty, A
ucname: DANCE FOR FORTY
intensity_bars: 800/822/888/888
notes:
  A wee story about the figures: First couple runs down to the wine cellar (bars 1-8).Having found and brought back a bottle, all set in celebration.  
  The bottle is uncorked (bars 9-24). All circle as the wine flows freely. Celebrations ensue…  

  Notes: The second figure is similar to Argyll Strathspey and Culla Bay. Dancers can flow from the reel into the circle but there is also time for the supporting couples to finish the reel in place before joining the circle.  

  The dance was devised by Seth Major and Sarah McCullough on the occasion of Terry Harvey’s 40th birthday.


created: 2015-09-02 00:01:31.681963+00
last_modified: 2021-08-05 10:29:54.253633+00
name: Wes Clindinning's Hornpipe
ucname: WES CLINDINNINGS HORNPIPE
intensity_bars: 440/448/800/844
devised: 2001-01-01
notes:
  This dance is a modified version of Wes Clindinning’s "<<https://my.strathspey.org/dd/dance/454/|The Belfast Hornpipe>>" devised in 1989. The only difference is bars 25-28 (Wes used set and cast for 1C), and thus also the direction of the butterfly turns in bars 29-32. 

  This dance is dedicated to Wes, a superb teacher and fun dancer.

  This dance was 'devised' by Mel Briscoe during a Workshop by inadvertently changing the last 8 bars. However, that variant was so successful that it made it into a number of dance programs and crib collections... unfortunately under the wrong name “Belfast Hornpipe”. 

  For example, the dance had been incorporated as "Belfast Hornpipe” in the Ball program at <<https://dances.e-cribs.org/var/RSCDS_Twin_Cities_Branch_27th_Annual_Grand_Ball.pdf>>. This has been corrected to "Wes Clindinning's Hornpipe" in the meantime.

  The dance named "Belfast Hornpipe (New Way)” at <<https://dances.e-cribs.org/var/Cincinnati_Demo_Dances_2007-2008.pdf>> (there attributed to Mel Briscoe) seemingly also describes a variant of this dance, but with reversed directions of the two turns in the last 8 bars.


created: 1998-07-09 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2021-08-10 06:45:43.941301+00
name: Raccoon Ramble
ucname: RACCOON RAMBLE
intensity_bars: 800/800/808/888
devised: 1996-01-01
notes:
  An easy dance for 3 couples in which only the 1st couple start, and the dance ends with a circle. For teaching purposes, the rights and lefts in bars 17-24 may be replaced with right hands across and left hands back, set and cross right and set and cross back for 3 couples, or promenade for 3 couples or any other appropriate, non-progressive, formation. If there is a 4th couple the last circle is 8 hands round and back.

  The name of the dance came to mind one night when some raccoons came into my back yard while I was preparing the lesson for my class. (SLK)


created: 2021-08-07 18:42:44.23439+00
last_modified: 2021-08-07 19:05:05.719432+00
name: MUGA Reel, The
ucname: MUGA REEL
intensity_bars: 844/888/888/888
devised: 2021-07-01
notes:
  Devised to celebrate Kilmorack SCDC returning to dancing post Covid restrictions with a series of outdoor dances held in the Kirkhill Community Centres Multi Use Games Area during July and August 2021.


created: 1997-12-03 23:00:00+00
last_modified: 2021-08-09 15:55:59.592835+00
name: Tabby Cat, The
ucname: TABBY CAT
intensity_bars: 800/888/800/888
devised: 1996-01-01
notes:
  I was looking for a simple three couple dance with figures we had already done. This works well since the first eight bars are a solo for the 1st couple so it is easy for the old 1st couple to step down into 4th place after the second time through. Also its not so tiring for supporting couples as a two couple dance. Besides, I love dances that end with a circle!  
  This dance is named for my beloved cat, who is a tabby. (SLK)


created: 1997-09-18 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2021-08-09 15:46:06.597065+00
name: Katie's Dance
ucname: KATIES DANCE
intensity_bars: 800/800/804/880
devised: 1988-01-01
notes:
  Katie was a member of my Children's Class who came along to Dancing in the Park soon after she began dancing. She didn't know many figures but she learned quickly and the Big Kids enjoyed seeing her progress. (JH)


created: 2015-07-31 14:36:26.317703+00
last_modified: 2021-08-10 18:43:07.072622+00
name: Countess of Dunmore's Reel, The
ucname: COUNTESS OF DUNMORES REEL
intensity_bars: 800/844/888/888
devised: 2012-10-01
notes:
  In the mid 19th century, the Earl of Dunmore owned the whole of the Island of Harris. After the passing of the 1872 Education (Scotland) Act, Catherine, Countess Dowager of Dunmore, gave lands in favour of the School Board of the Parish of Harris for the building of schools. These included Finsbay School, which was attended by members of the deviser's family.


created: 1997-09-04 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2021-08-10 18:17:43.849984+00
name: Ice Crystals
ucname: ICE CRYSTALS
intensity_bars: 822/866/448/880
notes:
  The notes say that "the movement of the dance represents patterns traced by ice crystals forming frost on a window pane."


created: 2021-09-23 17:05:27.425459+00
last_modified: 2021-09-24 09:25:13.347596+00
name: Leather Band, The
ucname: LEATHER BAND
intensity_bars: 8888/8008/8008/8888
devised: 2020-01-01
notes:
  Dedicated to Marian Anderson and Max Ketchin after the deviser heard of their touring in motorbike leathers.


created: 2018-12-15 15:13:41.28833+00
last_modified: 2021-08-10 18:45:45.074584+00
name: Farewell to Benbecula
ucname: FAREWELL TO BENBECULA
intensity_bars: 880/886/800/888
devised: 2014-01-01
notes:
  For Theresa Malek to celebrate a special birthday:  
  Theresa's ancestors were cleared from Benbecula in the 1840s & compelled to emigrate to North America.  

  _Music_: Farewell to Benbecula by Marian Anderson. Copyright Maramax Music or alternative CD Ribble Valley CD: David Queen's Strathspey


created: 2005-04-10 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2021-08-16 14:00:23.967132+00
name: Award of Scroll, The
ucname: AWARD OF SCROLL
intensity_bars: 800/844/888/844
devised: 1997-11-08
notes:
  Devised in honour of Jim Stephens, a former teacher of the St. Andrew’s of Brampton
  Scottish Country Dance group, who received the Award of Scroll for services to the
  R.S.C.D.S. on November 8, 1997.


created: 2016-07-12 22:44:56.979439+00
last_modified: 2021-08-16 16:31:06.262117+00
name: That's All You're Getting!
ucname: THATS ALL YOURE GETTING
intensity_bars: 800/888/888/888
devised: 2011-01-01
notes:
  For Bill Forbes on the occasion of his 90th birthday.

  "That's all you're getting!" is one of Bill's stock expressions.  When teaching at St. John's SCDC, Bill might occasionally say this immediately after a quick walkthrough or recap, at which point he would expect everyone to just dance the dance.  It certainly encourages us to learn quickly, and proves to us (on most occasions) that we are able to just dance it.  

  Recommended tune: <<ddt:Braes of Enzie, The#11344>> by Alister Forbes. Recorded music: Selection of Strathspeys found on CD Scottish Dance Country by Bobby Brown. Note the order of words ‘Scottish Dance Country’ is as written in dance instructions.


created: 2021-08-17 23:10:32.832262+00
last_modified: 2021-08-19 14:01:11.444834+00
name: Heather's Strathspey
ucname: HEATHERS STRATHSPEY
intensity_bars: 88/88/80/88
devised: 2014-10-23
notes:
  Devised on October 23, 2014, for Heather Collins, friend and fellow member of St Andrew’s of Brampton. The first 8 bars are inspired by “Glastonbury Tor”.


created: 2021-08-19 15:21:14.571773+00
last_modified: 2021-08-19 15:35:55.750036+00
name: St. Andrew's Salute to Saskatoon
ucname: SAINT ANDREWS SALUTE TO SASKATOON
intensity_bars: 880/888/888/888/808
devised: 2011-11-14
notes:
  Devised on November 14, 2011, for Sandra Beardsall and Bill Richards who spent several weeks dancing with us while living in Brampton and whom we will miss when they head home to Saskatoon.


created: 2021-08-19 16:38:04.199114+00
last_modified: 2021-08-20 07:58:42.505173+00
name: Susan's Syringa Strathspey
ucname: SUSANS SYRINGA STRATHSPEY
intensity_bars: 800/855/888/844
devised: 2006-09-28
notes:
  Devised on September 28, 2006 for Susan Elliotson, friend and fellow member of St. Andrew’s of Brampton, who suggested the title, because “Syringa” (lilac), one of her favourite flowers, extended the alliteration.


created: 2021-08-18 16:35:31.718017+00
last_modified: 2021-08-20 11:02:01.980659+00
name: Kathleen Stokoe of Dundee
ucname: KATHLEEN STOKOE OF DUNDEE
intensity_bars: 44/44/88/88
devised: 2011-02-11
notes:
  Devised on February 11, 2011, for Kathleen Stokoe, friend and fellow member of St. Andrew’s of Brampton (and to add to the repertoire of two couple dances).


created: 2021-08-20 13:42:18.694933+00
last_modified: 2021-08-20 13:56:34.774079+00
name: Roberta, MBE
ucname: ROBERTA MBE
intensity_bars: 884/888/800/888
devised: 2016-01-18
notes:
  Devised on January 18, 2016, for my old school friend, Roberta Lees, MBE, former head of Speech Therapy at Strathclyde University in Glasgow.


created: 2021-08-20 14:14:09.333495+00
last_modified: 2021-08-20 14:24:10.471713+00
name: In Memory of Marjorie
ucname: IN MEMORY OF MARJORIE
intensity_bars: 888/800/888/888
devised: 2016-02-18
notes:
  Devised on February 18, 2016, in memory of Marjorie Coulter, founder of St Andrew’s of Brampton, who died on February 11, 2016.


created: 2020-01-23 23:55:42.834496+00
last_modified: 2022-10-01 14:58:20.467394+00
name: African Monarch
ucname: AFRICAN MONARCH
intensity_bars: 8008/8008/8008/8008
devised: 2019-01-01
notes:
  Monarch butterflies in general are well known for making long migratory flights. This dance has been written to commemorate both Emma Trousdale and Carmen Davidson, both of whom find themselves, very much not by choice, needing to migrate to opposite ends of the planet. We wish them both well as they head to new adventures in the UK and New Zealand respectively, and we shall remember them when we see the African Monarch Butterflies, until they both return home.

  Travel well, our African Monarch butterflies.

  Andrew and Heather Hodgson,
  December 2019


created: 2021-08-20 13:06:36.590564+00
last_modified: 2023-01-17 10:56:33.073791+00
name: Da Trowie Reel
ucname: TROWIE REEL
intensity_bars: 804/844/800/888
devised: 2021-01-01
notes:
  The last 8 bars of this dance have been revised since the original publication and should be:

  25-32    All three couples dance 6 Hands round to the right for 6 slip steps, pull back RIGHT shoulder and skip change back to place.

  The video uploaded by Sarah Horne on 16 December 2021 is correct.


created: 2021-07-26 20:05:15.107238+00
last_modified: 2021-08-21 13:45:47.955987+00
name: John McLean's Reel
ucname: JOHN MACLEANS REEL
intensity_bars: 8008/8448/8448/8448
notes:
  The tune was written for John McLean by James Alexander. Sheena Gray, a friend of John and his wife asked if Margaret would devise a dance for John.  
  He was invited to the Bellie Hall and the dance was performed for him.


created: 2021-04-14 10:45:23.615846+00
last_modified: 2021-11-25 01:04:38.728038+00
name: #ILoveNice
ucname: ILOVENICE
intensity_bars: 800/800/844/888
devised: 2017-01-01
notes:
  The dance is dedicated to all the victims of the terrorist attack which happened in Nice on July 14, 2016. After that the city decided to create the hashtag #I LoveNice to celebrate the city, the people, unity and to share a positive energy.


created: 2021-07-26 20:09:09.990527+00
last_modified: 2021-08-22 11:48:59.913943+00
name: Portsoy Links
ucname: PORTSOY LINKS
intensity_bars: 880/880/800/868
notes:
  Alison and her husband Brian signed up as volunteers at Portsoy's Salmon Bothy Museum when it opened in 2009. The name of the dance was inspired by the situation of the Salmon Bothy on Links Road in Portsoy.


created: 1997-09-18 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2021-08-23 18:33:10.365835+00
name: Reeling at St. Paul's
ucname: REELING AT ST PAULS
intensity_bars: 48/48/80/88
notes:
  In bars 1-16, 2nd couple change who cuts the reel. In the first reel, 2nd man cuts the reel and in the second reel it is 2nd woman who cuts the reel.  
  I wrote this because in a small class, when too few students show up, I wanted to be able to teach reels of three. The name of the dance honors st. Paul's Episcopal Church where I teach one of my classes in Tustin, California. (DK)


created: 2021-09-04 09:56:21.884034+00
last_modified: 2023-08-29 23:44:43.024085+00
name: Bouquet for May, A
ucname: BOUQUET FOR MAY
intensity_bars: 880/808/288/808
devised: 2021-07-01
notes:
  Dedicated to May Macfarlane, founder of the Tayside Scottish Country Dancing Groups in Toronto and presented to her on the occasion of her 94th birthday in July 2021 in London, Ontario.

  Source: September 2021 issue of <<ddpub:Set and Link#1290>>.


created: 2002-12-05 23:00:00+00
last_modified: 2024-03-12 14:18:32.702571+00
name: Hodgsons' Strathspey
ucname: HODGSONS STRATHSPEY
intensity_bars: 800/888/888/888
devised: 2001-03-01
notes:
  Dance devised to mark Vernon and Barbara Hodgson's retirement from the Church in Llanbister and their subsequent removal to Cardiff. We shall miss them but we look forward to their promised visits.


created: 2021-08-30 20:59:48.99028+00
last_modified: 2021-08-31 22:17:36.572279+00
name: Cachette House, La
ucname: CACHETTE HOUSE
devised: 2021-08-31
notes:
  La Cachette was the home of Brenda Gale, teacher in Jersey, and her husband Richard for many years before they moved to the coast. It holds happy memories for them and for Roland Telle who has enjoyed many happy hours on the dance floor with Brenda and drinking Breton beer with Richard.


created: 2009-11-16 23:00:00+00
last_modified: 2021-09-06 08:42:52.540192+00
name: River Ness, The
ucname: RIVER NESS
intensity_bars: 88886/84884/88888/80800
notes:
  Published in the Diamond Jubilee Collection of the RSCDS Inverness and District Branch: <<http://my.strathspey.org/dd/publ/1027/>>


created: 2016-11-06 17:47:24.461772+00
last_modified: 2021-09-11 00:47:59.955928+00
name: City of Birmingham, The
ucname: CITY OF BIRMINGHAM
intensity_bars: 8888/8448/8888/8228
notes:
  At a dance, one of the MC's had problems with dance titles slightly mixing up 'City of Belfast' and 'The Library of Birmingham' to become 'The City of Birmingham' so we had to devise a dance to add to the confusion! 


created: 2021-09-07 00:53:31.671324+00
last_modified: 2021-09-07 01:04:51.952877+00
name: Cribmaster Extraordinaire
ucname: CRIBMASTER EXTRAORDINAIRE
intensity_bars: 848/888/844/844
devised: 2021-09-03
notes:
  Devised by Ann Campbell on September 3, 2021, for Roland Telle, to thank him for all his help and encouragement.


created: 2021-07-26 20:08:09.418597+00
last_modified: 2022-08-15 15:13:48.620637+00
name: Fond Farewell, A
ucname: FOND FAREWELL
intensity_bars: 8888/8888/8008/8888
devised: 1998-01-01
notes:
  Devised by Alice Archibald to mark the retirement of Rev. David Butters as Minister of St Ninian's and Forglen Parish Church, Turriff in January, 1998.


created: 2003-11-23 23:00:00+00
last_modified: 2021-11-09 09:25:39.730231+00
name: Maxwells Rant Again, The
ucname: MAXWELLS RANT AGAIN
intensity_bars: 8888/8888/8080/8008
devised: 2002-11-01
notes:
  For Colin and Betsy Maxwell of Eaglesfield.

  Drewry writes: *When this dance was danced in Morland in May 2003, we did it in strathspey tempo to allow dancers to get used to its slightly unusual format, before dancing it as a reel. I got the impression that most of the class were more comfortable with it at the slower tempo. Of course confident dancers are at liberty to do the dance in reel tempo.
  When it was tried out in Dumfries with Colin and Betsy in the class, it went well as a reel after an initial walk-through.
  It could be danced as a medley - four times as a strathspey and then four times as a reel. If the dance is to be repeated, 4th couple, in second place, may stay facing out, ready to dance out and up.*

  So although currently classified as a strathspey in SCDDB, both strathspey travel and skip change steps are listed.

  Although the original inspiration is "Maxwell's Rant" (with apostrophe), the instructions for this dance have it without apostrophe. The alternative is added as a spelling alias.


created: 2000-03-15 23:00:00+00
last_modified: 2021-09-13 14:23:23.971423+00
name: Andrew's (My) Delight
ucname: ANDREWS MY DELIGHT
intensity_bars: 8080/0808/6060/8888
devised: 1983-01-01
notes:
  Ronda and Peter Ovenden, friends and teachers of the Cleveland group in Brisbane, Australia, named this dance as I had always used it as an exercise dance on the Friday nights.


created: 2021-11-21 21:06:21.883228+00
last_modified: 2021-11-22 18:04:20.269402+00
name: Cailin Rua
ucname: CAILIN RUA
intensity_bars: 80/88/88/88
devised: 2002-01-01
notes:
  May be danced in 3 or 4 couple sets.

  Cailín Rua (COLL-een ROO-ah) is Irish Gaelic for “red-haired girl” and the name of a song by Cucanandy, which Katherine listened to often around the time she had a flame-point Siamese cat named Fiona, her red-haired girl.

  The Giacolettis commissioned the tune (<<ddt:Katydid#14531>>) as a donation to Pinewoods Camp, and the title is a childhood nickname Katherine’s mother often used for her.


created: 2021-12-03 21:20:50.306599+00
last_modified: 2021-12-04 11:12:20.84907+00
name: Laird of Dumbiedike's Favorite, The
ucname: LAIRD OF DUMBIEDIKES FAVORITE
intensity_bars: 880/888/880/808
notes:
  Originally published in 1820 by John Sutherland, Edinburgh in a booklet linked to Sir Walter Scott's novel The Heart of Midlothian. The Laird of Dumbiedykes is one of the characters in the novel. This version of the dance was reconstructed by the RSCDS in 2021 to mark the 250th anniversary of Sir Walter Scott's birth. 

  An alternative version was published in RSCDS Book 12 in 1938. <<https://my.strathspey.org/dd/dance/3656/>>


created: 2021-09-15 20:12:16.153591+00
last_modified: 2021-09-16 12:24:33.128309+00
name: On Bennetts' Brae
ucname: ON BENNETTS BRAE
intensity_bars: 880/800/844/844
devised: 2016-01-01
notes:
  Musicians' note: For variety this tune can easily be transposed into G Major. Just ignore the 2 flats in the key signature and play in C Major but still play all the indicated F sharps.


created: 2021-07-26 20:08:38.860616+00
last_modified: 2023-05-09 13:20:07.267414+00
name: Millbank Reel, The
ucname: MILLBANK REEL
intensity_bars: 888/800/800/888
notes:
  This dance was inspired by happy memories of the children who attended the Scottish Country Dance Classes at Millbank Primary School, Buckie.


created: 2021-12-03 22:36:04.100786+00
last_modified: 2023-12-04 14:52:02.926474+00
name: Kenilworth
ucname: KENILWORTH
intensity_bars: 800/840/880/888
notes:
  Originally published in 1822 by Nathaniel Gow as a 24 bar dance and named after Sir Walter Scott's historical novel Kenilworth.  Reconstructed by the RSCDS in 2021 to mark the 250th anniversary of Sir Walter's birth.  Bars 25-32 have been added for those dancers who prefer 32 bar dances.


created: 2021-09-15 20:01:37.779689+00
last_modified: 2021-09-16 09:29:02.71195+00
name: View of the Moon, A
ucname: VIEW OF THE MOON
intensity_bars: 8888/8888/8080/0808
devised: 2016-01-01
notes:
  Musicians' note: For variety, and to create the effect of orbiting the moon, play as written but change each ‘B’ to ‘B flat’ in bars 1-8 and 17-24 only. ...However, this cheeky title has nothing to do with a lunar eclipse!


created: 2021-08-23 23:00:37.049188+00
last_modified: 2021-09-16 16:28:58.039526+00
name: Minnowburn, The
ucname: MINNOWBURN
intensity_bars: 8400/8880/8484/8844
devised: 2012-01-01
notes:
  The Minnowburn flows through “an area of scenic beauty” in the leafy fringes of the city of Belfast. The dance represents its journey. Water rises at the source (bars 1-4), flow begins and pebbles are cast aside (5-8), the stream forms (9-16), with swirling eddies (17-20) until it meets a pebbly shoal (21-24), then flow increases (25-28) until stream becomes river (29-32)


created: 2021-09-15 20:07:43.314503+00
last_modified: 2021-09-16 09:30:44.993702+00
name: Gold in My Pocket
ucname: GOLD IN MY POCKET
intensity_bars: 8080/8888/4444/4444/8484/8888
devised: 2012-05-01
notes:
  Devised by The Gay Gordons at their 4th Annual Dance Week 12th -19th May 2012 at Laurieston Hall, Dumfriesshire, Scotland for tune ‘Gold in My Pocket’ by M. G. Hughes 2012.


created: 2021-11-03 13:52:57.913095+00
last_modified: 2022-04-22 20:27:02.43654+00
name: Seagulls @ Sawtell, The
ucname: SEAGULLS SAWTELL
intensity_bars: 7070/8080/8440/8444
devised: 2021-01-01
notes:
  The dance was originally entered in the database with the name "The Seagulls of Sawtell". However the preferred name is"The Seagulls @ Sawtell" as on the video. The original name is kept as an alias.


created: 2013-10-29 00:10:42.379489+00
last_modified: 2022-08-14 10:58:33.840433+00
name: Dalston Jig, The
ucname: DALSTON JIG
intensity_bars: 8080/0808/8888/0008/8888
devised: 2011-01-01
notes:
  The Dalston Jig was devised by Pat Harland for her daughter Jennifer's 40th birthday and tells the story of a day in Dalston, London.  
  1-16: eaving the house, delivering the children to school  
  17-24: Negotiating Ridley Road market  
  25-32: Going in and out of the shops  
  33-36: Everyone at school again, catching up on the news  
  37-40: Going home  

  *Health warning*: The dance is meant to be relentless, as a reflection of the life of a Mum with young children.


created: 2011-12-08 23:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-09-19 06:38:36.176916+00
name: Bill McIver's Fancy
ucname: BILL MACIVERS FANCY
intensity_bars: 844/844/888/888
devised: 2010-05-03
notes:
  This dance was devised for Bill and Carolyn McIver of Reno, Nevada. For several years they have hosted a number of dancers in their home for the annual Truckee, California workshop. They are the consummate hosts and really see to the well-being of each guest. Bill is a gourmet chef; so the vittles are always top-notch. I won't even touch on his Scotch collection but you can imagine. What is a special pleasure is to see the loving care that Bill and Carolyn show each other in many small ways. It is clear that they still fancy one another quite a bit.


created: 2021-07-26 20:10:02.353408+00
last_modified: 2022-12-04 13:57:32.922612+00
name: Moray Rambler, The
ucname: MORAY RAMBLER
intensity_bars: 844/888/844/888
notes:
  The Moray Rambler was named after one of Bill's favourite books "The Complete Moray Rambler" by Richard Gordon. "The Moray Rambler" was the title for a series of walks published every week in the P&J and the book is the entire collection.


created: 2021-09-15 20:09:35.505351+00
last_modified: 2021-09-18 08:10:59.754706+00
name: Gillie's Garters
ucname: GILLIES GARTERS
intensity_bars: 800/888/844/888
devised: 2019-01-01
notes:
  M G Hughes's parents named him ‘Gilbert’ after his mother’s father. Over the years many have shortened it to Gil or Gillie. So, this title has nothing to do with the lad who follows the Laird.


created: 2021-09-15 20:05:39.869047+00
last_modified: 2021-09-16 09:22:46.619379+00
name: Branches of the Yew are Evergreen, The
ucname: BRANCHES OF THE YEW ARE EVERGREEN
intensity_bars: 800/888/888/888
devised: 2016-01-01
notes:
  Dedicated to all unnamed composers who have become ‘traditional’. Memory fades, but “The Branches of the Yew are Evergreen”.


created: 2021-09-15 19:59:26.241529+00
last_modified: 2021-09-16 09:23:41.616452+00
name: Arthur Govan's Here
ucname: ARTHUR GOVANS HERE
intensity_bars: 660/660/800/808
devised: 2019-01-01
notes:
  Arthur, piper of London, precedes the haggis and brings the whisky! The first two bars fanfare his arrival. As 1st Man then 1st Woman turn diagonal partners, the music asks “have you seen him, have you seen him?” When 1st couple progress down the centre of the set, we know Arthur Govan’s here. The swirl of the poussette represents the skirl of the pipes.


created: 2018-10-24 19:05:56.417006+00
last_modified: 2021-09-23 20:37:28.047063+00
name: Pilot's Delight
ucname: PILOTS DELIGHT
intensity_bars: 800/822/844/844
devised: 2017-05-27
notes:
  The dance and tune are the result of Pat Gregory’s successful bid at the 2016 Asilomar Weekend Auction. In addition to Scottish Country dancing, Pat’s an active member of the Ninety-Nines, an international organization of women pilots.


created: 2021-10-11 22:24:36.121371+00
last_modified: 2021-11-22 01:05:15.53958+00
name: Pacemaker Dance, The
ucname: PACEMAKER DANCE
intensity_bars: 0880/8888/8888/2662
devised: 2020-01-01
notes:
  The dance is dedicated to the N.H.S for their devoted work during Covid-19 and to Moira Fletcher a founder
  member of the Belfast Branch as she celebrated her 90th birthday. Moira, Ruth, Jenny, Tom and myself
  have all benefited from the wonderful invention of the pacemaker, and the professional skills of the NHS.


created: 2021-11-17 08:38:13.343137+00
last_modified: 2021-11-22 13:14:36.392623+00
name: Dancing in 3D
ucname: DANCING IN 3D
intensity_bars: 888/824/888/888
devised: 2021-01-01
notes:
  This dance was written for Peter Price and Deborah Leary as one of the winners of the TAC silent auction to have a dance written in their honour. Deborah says that It was so nice when they started seeing their dancing friends again in 3D instead of 2D on a zoom screen. 


created: 2021-04-14 10:47:14.754857+00
last_modified: 2021-11-24 12:39:25.766508+00
name: Christaline
ucname: CHRISTALINE
intensity_bars: 866/888/844/844
devised: 2018-07-01
notes:
  This dance is dedicated to Pascaline Latour and Christophe Schuwey, and was devised for the opening of their wedding ceremony. They executed the dance for their friends and family, right after their appearance on the great stairs. We are very grateful to both of them for their many contributions to the Paris Branch, and wish them every happiness in their future together!


created: 2001-11-20 23:00:00+00
last_modified: 2021-09-25 09:16:01.595055+00
name: Saint Ebba's Strand
ucname: SAINT EBBAS STRAND
intensity_bars: 8888 8888 8888 8008 8008
devised: 1981-01-01
notes:
  Devised to honour Miss M.A. Rae on becoming Hon President of the Duns & District Branch.

  From the notes: The advance and retire represents the ebb and flow of the tide and the circular movements represent the seagulls wheeling round the rocks. The crosses (the wheels) represent St. Ebba and the Christian communities of the district. Each figure should flow into the next representing continuity of life from generation to generation and from century to century.


created: 2022-06-29 16:52:31.56302+00
last_modified: 2022-06-29 17:50:43.164031+00
name: Trotter at Play
ucname: TROTTER AT PLAY
intensity_bars: 844/844/800/844
devised: 2022-03-01
notes:
  We have 4 cats. Three are elderly (age 14+) and one is just turning 6. He is very active and loves to play. This dance tries to capture some of the joy of him at play.


created: 2016-01-18 14:33:33.306542+00
last_modified: 2021-09-26 11:08:34.636879+00
name: Dancing in Kirkcudbright
ucname: DANCING IN KIRKCUDBRIGHT
intensity_bars: 8800/8880/8080/8444
notes:
  On bars 27 & 28 second and third couples need to make sure they are covering as they curve into place, to give this phrase a tidy finish as the first couple simply cast off into third place.  

  This dance could also be done in a three couple set. With only one change the ending would now be:  
  Bars 28-32 the first couple turn both hands 1½ times to finish in third place on own sides.  

  My thanks to Lesley Campbell for her suggestion that third couple cast to enter the reel across (bars 9-16). The formation really does work much better this way.  

  In 2013 Damon and I danced in Scotland for the first time. Our English base was in The Lake District where we stayed for a week in Chapel Stile.  
  From there we drove to Kirkcudbright to dance on the last night of their season.  

  We arrived late afternoon in this pretty, seaside spot and were welcomed by the gathering dancers and spent a very enjoyable evening in warm and pleasant dancing conditions.  

  Later in the evening I exchanged our email address with Evelyn Thomas who was coming to NZ in 2014. We met up again then and danced together and shared a meal with both Evelyn & her husband, Ian.
  This dance was devised in memory of a very pleasant night in Kirkcudbright dancing with Evelyn and other dancers from that area.


created: 2001-11-25 23:00:00+00
last_modified: 2021-09-27 23:10:20.555473+00
name: Betsy Ross
ucname: BETSY ROSS
intensity_bars: 800/822/888/844
devised: 2001-07-01
notes:
  This dance honors Miss Betsy Ross, who sewed the original *Stars and Stripes*, with thirteen stars in a circle on a blue field and thirteen red and white stripes.


created: 2002-02-28 23:00:00+00
last_modified: 2021-09-29 08:50:56.910243+00
name: Murray, The Outlaw Of Falahill
ucname: MURRAY THE OUTLAW OF FALAHILL
devised: 1993-01-01
notes:
  According to the dance notes "Murray, The Outlaw Of Falahill" was the official name of US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's dog Fala. Fala was named after one of the president's ancestors, John Murray who was the outlaw celebrated in the ballad "The Song of Outlaw Murray".


created: 2001-09-03 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2021-10-02 22:18:55.142476+00
name: Celia's Jig
ucname: CELIAS JIG
intensity_bars: 822/800/844/866
devised: 2000-01-01
notes:
  Devised by Ellen Ternes in honor of Celia Kirby, a dear friend and an indispensable member of the Frederick Scottish Country Dancers, October, 2000


created: 2021-10-02 19:33:52.482313+00
last_modified: 2021-10-02 20:23:22.382596+00
name: Cobey's Barn
ucname: COBEYS BARN
intensity_bars: 800/888/888/888
devised: 2021-01-01
notes:
  Devised in memory of Cobey England, 1993-2020 of Maryland USA, a wonderful young man who brought joy and laughter to Scottish Country dancing and exquisite excellence to competitive ballroom. Cobey had plans to build a dance barn on family farm. He never got to do that, but there’s no doubt he’s working on it in heaven.


created: 2011-07-12 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2021-10-04 07:31:23.912118+00
name: Pillar Dance, The
ucname: PILLAR DANCE
devised: 2010-05-01
notes:
  Devised in May 2010. 

  The New York Branch meets in the main hall of Holy Cross School on 43rd Street in Manhattan. This hall has several pillars which are incorporated in this dance. In the event that a group has the "misfortune" to dance in a hall without pillars, it may substitute hands across for the movements around the pillars

  Music  Any good jig. A suitable recording is "Let‘s Celebrate, We Twa", Kenny Thomson
  and the Wardlaw Scottish Dance Band, track 16.


created: 2021-10-04 22:54:31.343367+00
last_modified: 2021-10-05 15:58:14.449154+00
name: Bemis Up, Scotty
ucname: BEMIS UP SCOTTY
intensity_bars: 800/888/800/822
devised: 2020-01-01
notes:
  Devised in honor of Barb and Sam Bemis, to thank them for their great tech work, patience and fun in keeping us connected to the dancing we love. They have been Stars in our Trek through corona dancing.


created: 2021-10-05 22:10:42.511204+00
last_modified: 2021-10-05 22:18:30.877979+00
name: Joy
ucname: JOY
intensity_bars: 84/88/88/84
devised: 1984-01-01
notes:
  Adapted to Scottish from a contra dance by Lannie McQuaide (duple minor contra) found in 500 Zesty Contras, published 1984.


created: 2022-04-27 21:45:25.206409+00
last_modified: 2022-06-28 19:56:34.974393+00
name: Iguazú Falls, The
ucname: IGUAZU FALLS
intensity_bars: 882/888/888/444
devised: 2020-03-01
notes:
  The whole entry still needs to be checked.  
  The diagram is in error; it probably comes from another dance.


created: 2022-06-29 15:19:46.705904+00
last_modified: 2022-06-29 15:23:36.908092+00
name: Circle of Life
ucname: CIRCLE OF LIFE
devised: 2022-05-01
notes:
  I've known of several friends and family members losing loved ones during the last couple of years, but also friends having babies and it reminded me that life is a circle.


created: 2021-10-21 18:07:27.322403+00
last_modified: 2021-10-22 09:54:03.684574+00
name: Ô Mon Beau Cularo
ucname: O MON BEAU CULARO
intensity_bars: 833/888/888/888
devised: 2018-06-01
notes:
  Cularo was the first name given to the city of Grenoble on June 6th 43 B.C. It then changed to Gratianopolis in year 379 and slowly transitioned to the current name.


created: 2021-10-21 18:08:52.818019+00
last_modified: 2021-10-22 09:56:57.767815+00
name: Dancing Together Again
ucname: DANCING TOGETHER AGAIN
intensity_bars: 822/8848/880/888
devised: 2018-10-01
notes:
  The name of the dance refers to how much I enjoy meeting and dancing again with the members of our group in Grenoble after a break like a holiday. It was written before the pandemic period, but will probably be quite appropriate when we resume dancing after the endless months of lockdown.


created: 2021-10-21 18:01:42.682073+00
last_modified: 2021-10-22 09:40:56.529902+00
name: BellCorEuse
ucname: BELLCOREUSE
intensity_bars: 888/844/844/888
devised: 2018-06-01
notes:
  Belledonne, Vercors and Chartreuse are the three mountains ranges (or Massifs) surrounding Grenoble, making the valley look like a Y (Le Y Grenoblois).


created: 2021-10-21 18:12:52.823928+00
last_modified: 2021-10-22 09:59:51.334343+00
name: Year with Harry Potter, A
ucname: YEAR WITH HARRY POTTER
intensity_bars: 84/88/88/88/84/88/88/88
devised: 2018-10-01
notes:
  My husband, our two children and I spent a great amount of delicious hours reading or listening to the whole story of Harry Potter together. It lasted about a year.  
  If someone is inspired to devise a set of music for this dance including Slytherin House and Tam Lin, it would just be wonderful!


created: 2021-10-21 18:17:34.113457+00
last_modified: 2021-10-22 10:13:45.531083+00
name: My Great Builder
ucname: MY GREAT BUILDER
intensity_bars: 800/866/888/888
devised: 2019-03-01
notes:
  For my son, who loves building, and keeps building all over the place, at anytime with whatever is available (legos, kaplas, paper and adhesive tape, snow, sand, sticks, stones etc.). For example, we once had a cable car all made with paper and adhesive tape dividing half of our living room in two parts, when he was six.  
  Sometimes, he puts things together in a different way, you would say it’s not going to work, but in the end, it does work. This inspired me for the formation “modified crown triangles”.


created: 2021-10-21 18:30:41.945681+00
last_modified: 2021-10-23 01:08:32.472038+00
name: Reel of Three for Free
ucname: REEL OF THREE FOR FREE
intensity_bars: 800/888/800/888/800/888
devised: 2021-08-01
notes:
  This dance was devised to work on the spatial geometry of the reel of three. It was written as a reel R6x48, but it can also be danced as a strathspey S3x48.


created: 2021-11-15 14:17:13.100186+00
last_modified: 2021-11-15 14:18:18.07429+00
name: Miss Avery Rose
ucname: MISS AVERY ROSE
intensity_bars: 866/888/888/808
devised: 2018-01-01
notes:
  Miss Avery Rose is devisers young granddaughter, who is very bouncy & full of energy, hence a jig with lots of pas de basque.


created: 2021-10-28 15:29:36.197127+00
last_modified: 2021-10-29 17:18:22.888334+00
name: Amateur Epidemiologist, The
ucname: AMATEUR EPIDEMIOLOGIST
intensity_bars: 800/844/844/844
notes:
  During the 2020 COVID-19 lock-down period, the whole nation became amateur epidemiologists  and knowledgeably discussed weighty matters such as community transmission, flattening the curve  and social distancing. The daily one o’clock briefings from the Prime Minister and Director General  of Health became a daily fixture in many households as we eagerly awaited news about the number  of new cases and whether we were flattening the curve. 

  The dance depicts some of the changes to our daily routines such acknowledging friends from afar  on our daily walks, swerving off the footpath to keep two meters from other walkers and queuing  for groceries. Finally lockdown ends and we are all able to mix again. 

  Devised by Andrew Oliver during the 2020 COVID-19 lock-down.  
  Recommended music: The Magic of Merrill (The Reel of Seven)  

  Above dance information supplied by the deviser, Andrew Oliver.  

  'The Amateur Epidemiologist' was chosen for a book of dances published to commemorate the Wellington Region’s 60th Anniversary. The Region forms part of the New Zealand Branch of the RSCDS.  

  The video was taken at the Linden SCD's annual dance earlier this year. Andrew is dancing as first man.  

  Live music was by the Saltire Band: Jason Morris, Mary McDonald, Ann Goodbehere and Duncan McDonald.


created: 2002-11-12 23:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-12-19 14:34:44.783956+00
name: Ian Gaylor's Entrance to Matrimony
ucname: IAN GAYLORS ENTRANCE TO MATRIMONY
intensity_bars: 8000/8888/8888/8888
devised: 1998-01-01
notes:
  Written in 1998 by Todd McCall to commemorate the marriage of Madison, Wisconsin, dancers Ian Gaylor and Nancy McClements.

  According to <<https://my.strathspey.org/dd/issue/2641/|issue 2641>> the tune was written by Mike Briggs for the dance's premier in Madison.


created: 2021-11-03 10:50:40.695996+00
last_modified: 2021-11-04 10:42:39.879378+00
name: London Bridge
ucname: LONDON BRIDGE
devised: 2012-10-01
notes:
  This dance was devised for teaching the Rondel. The old London Bridge had many arches, so London Bridge seemed a good title for the dance.
  Devised in October 2012, revised in January 2021.
  May be danced in 3 or 4 couple sets.


created: 2021-11-05 19:14:36.208399+00
last_modified: 2021-11-05 19:14:36.208399+00
name: Jewellery Shop, The
ucname: JEWELLERY SHOP
devised: 2021-01-01
notes:
  The set should have dancers 2m apart both across and on the sides. Suggested as a strathspey but may be danced in reel time. The choreography has "lots of diamonds!"


created: 2021-11-05 20:24:21.659088+00
last_modified: 2021-11-05 20:28:27.385267+00
name: Masks and Faces
ucname: MASKS AND FACES
devised: 2020-08-01
notes:
  Devised during the Covid 19 epidemic based on ideas from the dances “<<ddd:Parting Kiss, The>>” in Iain Boyd’s book “May I have the Pleasure” and John Gregory’s dance “<<ddd:After Supper Sweeper, The>>”.


created: 2021-11-05 20:32:12.009468+00
last_modified: 2021-11-05 20:32:12.009468+00
name: Play It Safe
ucname: PLAY IT SAFE
devised: 2020-01-01
notes:
  To comply with social distancing, all dancers should be 1 metre away from other dancers at all times and no hands given at any time.


created: 2011-08-22 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2021-11-09 13:17:42.060972+00
name: St Chad's Strathspey
ucname: SAINT CHADS STRATHSPEY
intensity_bars: 882/888/888/888
devised: 1999-04-01
notes:
  "This dance was written for Alison Murdoch and Chris Hiller, stalwart members of the demonstration team of the Newcastle and District Branch of the RSCDS, on the occasion of their wedding at Easter 1999."


created: 2012-05-08 21:23:53.640766+00
last_modified: 2021-11-25 17:54:25.780636+00
name: Lena's Kitchen
ucname: LENAS KITCHEN
intensity_bars: 888/880/844/844
devised: 2007-11-01
notes:
  For Lena Robinson, who is renowned for her tireless  work and activities in the kitchen at St. Columba's Church, Pont Street, London

  Description:

  1-8	  1st couple petronella turn and set. Then turn right hands once and a half to finish with 1st lady facing down with 1st man behind her, also facing down.  Meanwhile the 2nd and 3rd couples dance four hands round to the left and back again.  (1234)

  9-16	  With 1st lady leading, the 1st couple dance a tandem reel of three with second couple, giving right shoulders to 2nd man to start, and changing order as they change direction (ie Dolphin Reels across the dance).  1st couple finish in 2nd place opposite sides in the middle.  2nd couple finish in 1st place on own sides.  (2134)

  17-24	  1st couple, with nearer hands joined, dance down between 3rd couple and cast up to second place opposite sides.  2nd, 1st and 3rd couples advance and retire. (2134)

  25-32	  1st man with second couple and 1st lady with third couple dance right hands across. 1st couple turn left hands once and a half to own sides. (2134)

  Suggested CD:	Scottish Dances Vol. 8 - D. Anderson  No. 7 - Chevy Chase


created: 2022-01-08 11:53:01.617659+00
last_modified: 2022-01-08 17:01:08.222809+00
name: Queensland Breeze, The
ucname: QUEENSLAND BREEZE
intensity_bars: 770/832/856/833
devised: 2021-01-01
notes:
  The Quick Scotch video is titled "The Queensland Breese" but the deviser says it should be "Breeze".


created: 2022-01-09 18:21:46.152944+00
last_modified: 2022-01-09 18:21:46.152944+00
name: Two Rebeccas, The
ucname: TWO REBECCAS
devised: 2015-08-01
notes:
  "This is dedicated to Rebecca Blackhall-Peters, a wonderful teacher, and Rebecca Allison, a brand new dancer and terrific massage therapist. They both gave me what I needed at TAC in Virginia."


created: 2022-01-09 18:27:31.660963+00
last_modified: 2022-01-09 18:27:31.660963+00
name: Wedding at Fingask Castle
ucname: WEDDING AT FINGASK CASTLE
devised: 2015-08-01
notes:
  "This dance is written for James Moxley and Katherine Robinson to celebrate their marriage September 6, 2015 at Fingask Castle in Scotland"


created: 2021-11-05 20:15:22.328304+00
last_modified: 2022-06-23 22:02:37.905253+00
name: Counting Teddy Bears
ucname: COUNTING TEDDY BEARS
intensity_bars: 800/800/844/868
devised: 2020-04-01
notes:
  During the Lockdown, many people put Teddy Bears in their windows, for the amusement of youngsters and oldies, alike, who were encouraged to see how many they could find during their daily walks.


created: 1998-01-05 23:00:00+00
last_modified: 2021-12-02 23:44:09.712018+00
name: Bon Accord
ucname: BON ACCORD
intensity_bars: 680/844/808/800/888
devised: 1964-01-01
notes:
  Drewry's own notes:

  During bars 1-28, 1st Lady dances similar figures to those danced by her partner but four bars later.

  Miss Allie Anderson, of Edinburgh, prefers 1st couple to omit the setting, and turn by the right hands for four steps during bars 29-32.  I have left the dance in the original version because the setting marks the end of the part where 1st lady is imitating her partner, after a four-bar interval, and because the setting gives the 1st couple a chance to orientate themselves before plunging into the last eight bars.  Miss Anderson's version is however a pleasant optional variation.

  This dance was written for Miss Margaret Brander and the  members of the Carlisle and Border Branch Advanced Class.  Miss Brander chose the title - the motto of Aberdeen - her native city.  That was before I knew that I was coming to live in Abderdeen myself.

  Tune: Bon Accord by Winifred M. Carrie (1st ans 2nd tunes; see the music sheets for this book).  It is essential to use the correct tunes for this dance because the first 24 bars consist of two 12-bar phrases rather than three 8-bar ones.

  SCDDB Editor's Note on [39-40]   
  In the first original text by Drewry (typed and then stenciled) 1c crosses RH on [39-40].  In the later printed versions (Bon Accord Book, and the later TAC reprint) 1c cross LH on [39-40].  It is not clear if Drewry changed his mind, or if this was an overlooked editing error.  Crossing LH is now the official version, even if some consider Drewry's original RH choice to flow better. 


created: 2021-12-03 20:10:25.369993+00
last_modified: 2021-12-03 23:28:44.287533+00
name: Jeanie Dean's Strathspey
ucname: JEANIE DEANS STRATHSPEY
intensity_bars: 800/888/822/800
notes:
  Originally published in 1820 by John Sutherland, Edinburgh in a booklet linked to Sir Walter Scott's novel The Heart of Midlothian. Jeanie Deans was the heroine of the novel.  This dance was reconstructed by the RSCDS in 2021 to mark the 250th anniversary of Sir Walter Scott's birth.


created: 2021-12-03 20:59:23.214297+00
last_modified: 2021-12-03 23:45:49.631482+00
name: Reuben Butler
ucname: REUBEN BUTLER
intensity_bars: 800/840/880/808
notes:
  Originally published in 1820 by John Sutherland, Edinburgh in a booklet linked to Sir Walter Scott's novel The Heart of Midlothian in which Reuben Butler is one of the lead characters. This dance was reconstructed by the RSCDS in 2021 to mark the 250th anniversary of Sir Walter Scott's birth.


created: 2021-12-03 22:54:31.38918+00
last_modified: 2021-12-04 12:16:21.096611+00
name: Pirate, The
ucname: PIRATE
intensity_bars: 440/440/880/888
notes:
  Originally published in 1822 by Nathaniel Gow as a 24 bar dance and named after Sir Walter Scott's romantic novel The Pirate.  Reconstructed by the RSCDS in 2021 to mark the 250th anniversary of Sir Walter's birth.  Bars 25-32 have been added for those dancers who prefer 32 bar dances.


created: 2003-04-15 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2021-12-04 18:09:55.483595+00
name: Pat Clark's Strathspey
ucname: PAT CLARKS STRATHSPEY
intensity_bars: 8888 8888 8888 8008
devised: 2003-02-01
notes:
  "Dedicated to Pat Clark whose wonderful music has inspired many a dancer and teacher. It was devised on the occasion of the Nunspeet Weekend, February 2003."


created: 2017-10-19 21:57:29.743056+00
last_modified: 2021-12-05 23:05:12.89115+00
name: Absacker, Der
ucname: ABSACKER
intensity_bars: 880/844/822/888
devised: 2016-06-21
notes:
  "Der Absacker" is German  for a nightcap... a last-drink-to-end-the-evening-with-a-blast nightcap. Much heartfelt thanks to Joana Stausberg for the apt name. Twirls and birls and extra toasts are naturally encouraged.


created: 2021-09-16 16:32:51.416363+00
last_modified: 2021-12-06 12:31:15.05424+00
name: London Nine-O
ucname: LONDON NINEO
intensity_bars: 888/800/888/888
devised: 2020-03-14
notes:
  This dance is the winning entry, out of 35 dance entries, for RSCDS London Branch 90th Anniversary New Scottish Dance Devising Competition.  
  The trialing of the three short-listed dances took place at St Columba’s Church, London on 11 September 2021.  
  This dance originally and temporarily named Happy Times is now renamed and is to be known by its anniversary name: London Nine-O.  
  The name London Nine-O was given by Betty Arrol of Ruislip, England and under the competition rules has been chosen by London Branch as being best suited for this dance and occasion.


created: 2021-12-03 18:20:47.491578+00
last_modified: 2022-10-11 14:08:58.170275+00
name: Heart of Midlothian, The
ucname: HEART OF MIDLOTHIAN
intensity_bars: 880/800/844/800
notes:
  Originally published in 1820 by John Sutherland, Edinburgh in a booklet linked to Sir Walter Scott's novel The Heart of Midlothian.  Reconstructed by the RSCDS in 2021 to mark the 250th anniversary of Sir Walter Scott's birth.


created: 2019-12-01 23:17:02.700954+00
last_modified: 2022-08-15 13:31:48.915697+00
name: Joy to the World
ucname: JOY TO THE WORLD
intensity_bars: 8888/8888/8888/0880
devised: 2019-11-01
notes:
  Devised by Chris Ronald in November 2019 for Sue Biddle of Vancouver, Canada. This dance came about through an auction at the 2019 summer school of the Scottish Country Dance Teachers Association (Canada). Sue was the winning bidder. Hence the alternate title for the dance of 'Biddle's Best Bid'.   

  Bars 17-24.  Tandem reels of 3: When dancing in tandem, experienced dancers may alternate the lead at top and bottom of set (dolphin style).  


created: 1997-09-06 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2021-12-07 00:19:29.540864+00
name: Belfast Almanac, The
ucname: BELFAST ALMANAC
intensity_bars: 80/88/88/88
devised: 1968-01-01
notes:
  There are two versions of the Glendarroch Sheet for this dance. In one (earlier?) version 2nd couple are shown turning RH in bars 27-28 in between dancing up LH and then later turning LH for 29-32. The other (corrected?) version shows 2nd couple turning LH throughout. This matches the text.


created: 1998-07-08 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2021-12-10 09:53:09.279956+00
name: Back to Bach
ucname: BACK TO BACH
devised: 1993-01-01
notes:
  In  the original publication, John Drewry states:   

  For David Goldberg of Brooklyn NY. February 1993. Bratach Bana is David Goldberg’s favourite dance - this is a 5–couple variation of the dance. The “Goldberg Variations” are a set of variations for the harpsichord by J S Bach written for J T G Goldberg to play to Count Keyserling as a solace for insomnia. (The dancers cannot afford to go to sleep during this dance!). David loves a play on words, hence the title. Sadly the final version of this dance did not include a back-to-back movement. 


created: 1997-08-25 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2021-12-13 02:18:47.008759+00
name: Boyndie Knot, The
ucname: BOYNDIE KNOT
intensity_bars: 800/888/888/888
devised: 1992-11-01
notes:
  The notes say this is a "dance for the Ruby Wedding of Jonathan and Mary Ross who were married at Boyndie Kirk near Whitehills, Banffshire in March 1953."

  The instructions give the tune as "The Boyndie Knot" by <<ddp:Meikle, George>> whereas SCDDB currently links a tune called "The Knotted Piece of String" also by <<ddp:Meikle, George>>. Its not clear if these are the same tune.


created: 2022-01-17 16:34:10.285887+00
last_modified: 2022-01-17 16:39:15.685937+00
name: Remembering Marian
ucname: REMEMBERING MARIAN
devised: 2021-01-01
notes:
  In memory of Marian Roth (1937-2021) who was a long term member of the Geneva Scottish Country Dancing Club.


created: 1998-10-11 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2021-12-18 14:24:45.468013+00
name: Angus MacLeod
ucname: ANGUS MACLEOD
intensity_bars: 4884 8888 0440 12 12 12 12 6886 0880 0880 0880
devised: 1969-01-01
notes:
  Twice through only!

  The pattern represents the Black Watch cap badge design.  In some areas the custom is that inner dancers who pass to corners do not first swivel to face inwards, but, like those in the centre, swivel during the setting.


  A comment made by David Queen on the Scottish Country Dance teachers (07/2017):
  "Dad wrote the dance in 1969 and the first version started with a reel of 4 on the sides, then he changed it to the dance in movement which defines the dance."


created: 2017-10-10 11:50:41.055949+00
last_modified: 2022-01-03 02:05:52.778732+00
name: Road To Torridon, The
ucname: ROAD TO TORRIDON
devised: 2013-01-01
notes:
  For forty years, Scottish Country Dance Classes have been held in Torridon under a variety of Teachers. Over that duration, music has always been provided by a mixture of records, tapes and CDs. The current Teacher, Marie Macdonald, has taken the bold move of celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the Torridon SCD Group by organising a SC Dance with 'live' music.

  'The Road to Torridon' has been devised to mark the event, to a tune composed by Frank Thomson of Aberdeen who provided the said 'live' music.

  [Source: the original description]


created: 2003-09-22 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2021-12-25 19:51:49.760371+00
name: Dancing Along the Rock River
ucname: DANCING ALONG THE ROCK RIVER
intensity_bars: 800/844/888/800
devised: 2002-05-01
notes:
  I wrote this dance right after driving out to Oregon, IL to check out the venue for our annual weekend workshop. Stronghold is on a bluff overlooking the Rock River. I also wanted to write a dance using this music and it is only three times through.


created: 2021-09-02 10:30:31.702024+00
last_modified: 2022-01-05 01:52:44.560358+00
name: My Dear Oncologist
ucname: MY DEAR ONCOLOGIST
intensity_bars: 880/808/888/808
devised: 2021-06-01
notes:
  Devised by Anne Dejean for her oncologist Sophie.

  Information derived from the <<https://youtu.be/8EaDI1R7ns8|youtube video>>.


created: 2021-12-21 19:53:40.936451+00
last_modified: 2022-04-07 05:14:42.243699+00
name: Bloody Catheter
ucname: BLOODY CATHETER
intensity_bars: 8888/8888/8440/8448
devised: 2021-06-01
notes:
  This dance depicts the deviser's experiences in hospital.  Anne writes:

    One day, two nurses had difficulties in inserting a catheter in my arm, they needed a few tries to achieve it, which was not a very nice experience. After a little while, I decided I would make something funny out of this bad and painful moment.

    Bars 1-4 and 9-12, the advancing dancers represent the approaching catheter, whereas the retiring dancers symbolise the fleeing vein.

   This is a very easy dance, more like a ceilidh dance, or suitable for warming up.


created: 2019-09-08 09:12:57.179712+00
last_modified: 2022-01-05 19:00:39.031152+00
name: Benign Presence, The
ucname: BENIGN PRESENCE
intensity_bars: 884/822/844/888
devised: 2019-01-01
notes:
  For Rachel Wilton who has benignly presided over London Branch for many years.

  An early version of the instructions had a mistake in bars 25-32 mixing up 2nd and 3rd couples in places. This is now fixed (thanks to David Haynes of the MiniCrib team for pointing it out).


created: 1998-07-09 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-01-07 11:28:14.039054+00
name: Findhorn Medley
ucname: FINDHORN MEDLEY
intensity_bars: 282/848/686/888/888/666/888/666/242/646/646/888
notes:
  The last 8 bars of the reel are quite demanding. On video 1 the team substituted the following:  
  25-28: dancing couple (original couple 2) set diagonally to each other and cast (pulling back right shoulder) one place (to second place opposite side) while couples 1 and 3 turn once (instead of 1 1/2 times) finishing on their opposite side [(1)(2)(3)]  
  29-32: all circle half way 6 hands round to the left to finish [321]. This means the the dance finishes 321, whereas the original instructions have the dancers finishing 123.  


created: 2009-12-02 23:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-01-07 14:19:45.489154+00
name: Hotel Elsbury
ucname: HOTEL ELSBURY
intensity_bars: 800/888/844/888
devised: 2005-01-01
notes:
  From the dance notes: "Devised for Betty Elsbury, the 'hostess with the mostest', and her devoted husband Clive. Many thanks for your kind hospitality!"


created: 2006-12-11 23:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-08-07 11:14:48.23716+00
name: Miss Jenny Lee
ucname: MISS JENNY LEE
devised: 2006-06-01
notes:
  This dance was written for Jenny Lee, a summer intern at Fermilab, who really caught on quickly to the dancing.


created: 1998-12-17 23:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-10-23 19:51:38.548444+00
name: Susan's Baby
ucname: SUSANS BABY
intensity_bars: 800/888/844/866
notes:
  Written for my friend and fellow member of St. Andrew's of Brampton , Susan Baulcomb Stephens, and her son, Christopher.


created: 2000-02-21 23:00:00+00
last_modified: 2023-08-11 14:59:51.41183+00
name: J. B. Milne
ucname: J B MILNE
intensity_bars: 440/800/888/888
devised: 1954-01-01
notes:
  ##>>
  From the Dundee Courier and Advertiser of 25 September 1968

  Mr J B Milne dies at age 66

  Mr J B Milne, who was a millboy with ambition, died yesterday at his home, Ruthven House, Meigle, aged 66, as head of Scotland’s largest private cinema chain.

  He had been ill for some time.

  His first cinema was the Palladium, Dundee, where he once played the violin and washed floors. When he died he controlled 34 cinemas and bingo halls.

  John Bannerman Milne was one of three sons of the late Mr Charles Milne, a Dundee coal merchant.

  When he was nine he bought his first violin and by the age of 16 he was working in Dura Works from 5.30 am to 6 pm, teaching the violin from 6 pm to 8 pm, then playing in a dance hall until midnight.

  Mr Milne became an apprentice engineer, but his future lay in the entertainment world.

  His first entertainment job was at the Variety Theatre, later the Palladium, and later the Rex, until it was demolished.

  He was a 19s a week “musical director and cleaner”. His savings were invested in a motor hire business, which he sold for £360 to found his cinema empire.

  In 1928 Mr Milne bought the hall where he once worked. He had the vision to install talkies and never looked back.

  Within 10 years, he had the largest cinema chain under private ownership in Scotland. Mr Milne recognised the potential of bingo and introduced it. Some of his halls remained cinemas, some became bingo halls, some combined the two.

  Mr Milne bought Ruthven House, a 32-room Adam-designed manor, complete with its furnishings in 1946. A 1500-acre estate went with it.

  Citizen award
   
  But he did not forget his home town, where he had his offices at Bannerman House, South Tay Street. In 1961, he presented his ‘Citizen of the Year’ award to Dundee Corporation for annual presentation.

  Mr Milne’s interests ranged from Stornoway to Galashiels. He, at one time, owned the Kinnaird and the Capitol, Dundee.

  The cinemas and bingo halls he owned include –
  Royalty, Ritz, State, Broadway, Victoria in Dundee; Regal, Broughty Ferry; Palace and Picture House, Arbroath; King’s and Playhouse, Montrose; Picture House, Cowdenbeath; Opera House, Lochgelly; Palace and Imperial, Methil; Troxy and Regent, Leven; Regal, Blairgowrie; Scala, Cupar and County, Kinross.

  He also owned the Picture House, Tayport; Regal, Auchterarder; Regal, East Wemyss and the Globe, Buckhaven, which are now closed.

  ##<<


  Added on 13-10-11 from:  http://thesession.org/tunes/3479

  JB Milne, the man

  He was my grandmother’s cousin.
  Brief biography of him is as follows (found it on the web)…
  "John Bannerman Milne was born one of three sons of Charles Milne, a Dundee coalmerchant, in 1902. When he was nine, he bought his first violin. By the age of sixteen, he was working at Dura Works (a jute mill) from 5.30am to 6.00pm, teaching the violin from 6.00pm to 8.00pm and then playing in a dance hall until midnight.
  His first entertainment job was at the Variety Theatre, Dundee, as a 19 shillins a week "musical director and cleaner". He eventually bought the theatre in 1925 for £360 (actually with his sister, Lizzie, though this is not mentioned on the web - my mum told me this!), installed "talkies", and never looked back. Within ten years he … presided over a theatre, cinema and bingo empire that stretched from Stornaway to Galashiels …
  The dance was devised by Angus Fitchet who dedicated it to J.B. Milne as "the man who gave him his start in his show business career".

  Some other stuff - he bought Lizzie out at some point early on and then expanded his "empire" - he died in 1968 - never married and lived in Ruthven Hall, near Meigle. He taught my mum to drive in a Rolls Royce in a field on his estate and also once told her in conversation that he had more money than he knew what to do with - he couldn’t even manage to spend the interest on his money, no matter how hard he tried! Don’t know what happened to the money !!! Unless mum has kept it very well hidden all these years!!!

  Described in another report as a "fiery redhead" - whatever that means!

  Thought this might flesh out the answer for anyone who is interested in knowing more about the man the tune is named after …

  # Posted by jbmilnesobscurerelly 6 years ago.


created: 2022-01-09 19:17:14.567358+00
last_modified: 2022-01-09 19:17:14.567358+00
name: Miss Lawson's Reel
ucname: MISS LAWSONS REEL
devised: 1988-01-01
notes:
  "For Jennifer"

  In the book the recommended tune is given as "Jennifer Lawson's Reel" (no composer mentioned). The Irvine Valley SCD band recorded a track <<ddrec:Miss Lawson's Reel>> which includes a tune entered there just as "Jennifer's Reel" by BA Ramsay. It is assumed that is the intended one.


created: 2002-10-20 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-01-09 20:03:40.199204+00
name: Epping Hundred
ucname: EPPING HUNDRED
intensity_bars: 660/844/888/888
devised: 2002-01-01
notes:
  To celebrate Epping Forest (Scottish Association) Centenary in 2003. Requested by Sheila Tanner of Buckhurst Hill, Essex.


created: 2003-05-04 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-01-29 00:34:31.265474+00
name: Linnea's Strathspey
ucname: LINNEAS STRATHSPEY
intensity_bars: 800 822 888 888
devised: 2001-01-01
notes:
  Devised for Linnea Johnson on the occasion of her birthday. A dear friend, beautiful dancer and delightful partner, she has also been the manager of the San Fransisco class for many years.  This dance pays homage to two of her favourite dances: Sugar Candie and General Stuart’s Reel. A huge thank you to Tom Winter for his suggestion to have 1st couple active during the chain progression. What a nice change. (Source: The notes in the original publication 'Dunsmuir Dances')

  The chain progression for 3 couples was named 'Promenade Chain Progression' (and 'Chaperoned Chain Progression') in the description.


created: 2022-01-18 15:17:13.870241+00
last_modified: 2022-01-22 14:07:01.239581+00
name: Dancing Surgeon, A
ucname: DANCING SURGEON
intensity_bars: 8080/0808/8888/8888/8888
devised: 2021-10-01
notes:
  This dance refers to the surgeon who operated my vertebra in June 2021. When I asked him if there was a risk I might lose the use of my legs, difficult to imagine as an scd teacher, he started to dance a few Irish steps like in Irish set dancing, that a friend of his had taught him! Then he explained to me that the risk was much higher with no operation than with an operation. I liked that exchange with him and I felt quite confident. And the operation went all right.  
  During the first phrase of the dance, formations are different each time through to convey an Irish flavor, and this is also why there is a swing at the end.


created: 1997-04-03 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-01-23 20:08:18.806754+00
name: John Stephen of Chance Inn
ucname: JOHN STEPHEN OF CHANCE INN
intensity_bars: 808/484/888/880
devised: 1982-01-01
notes:
  Versions of the instructions for this dance have either turn one and half or turn one and a quarter in bars 3-4. The latter seems to make more sense.


created: 2000-06-12 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-01-29 16:15:23.399395+00
name: Rest And Be Thankful
ucname: REST AND BE THANKFUL
intensity_bars: 800 844 844 844
notes:
  In western Scotland, the A83 road connects Tarbet on the western shore of Loch Lomond to Campbeltown on the Kintyre peninsula. »Rest and be thankful« is the name of a viewpoint and picnic area on the A83, at the summit of its pass through the Arrochar Alps between Loch Long and Loch Fyne. The name derives from an inscribed stone that marked the summit on the old »drover's road« constructed by soldiers in 1753. Its suggestion is very sensible given that the old road up Glen Croe from Loch Long ended in a very steep climb up to the pass. The modern A83 does not keep to the bottom of the glen, for a more gradual incline.


created: 2014-09-12 20:10:56.880587+00
last_modified: 2022-01-29 22:08:52.419254+00
name: Yes
ucname: YES
intensity_bars: 886/844/844/888
devised: 2014-09-08
notes:
  This dance came about due to a conversation between Frank Thomson and the deviser George T
  Watt. Frank suggesting a dance simply called ‘YES’ in honour of the Scottish Referendum on
  Independence (18 september 2014) and challenging George to write one. Over to Frank for a tune!


created: 2012-06-12 13:24:40.158068+00
last_modified: 2022-02-15 15:37:24.675988+00
name: Potten End Reel, The
ucname: POTTEN END REEL
intensity_bars: 800/888/844/844
devised: 2010-07-01
notes:
  From the dance description:  
  Berkhamsted Strathspey & Reel Club meets each Tuesday evening, for social dancing and newcomer instruction, in Potten End Village Hall and has done since 1959. (Image: Signpost on village green)


created: 2020-09-30 16:12:10.308421+00
last_modified: 2023-05-09 11:27:33.06913+00
name: What's in a Name?
ucname: WHATS IN A NAME
intensity_bars: 800/844/888/800
devised: 2020-07-01
notes:
  The title, a line from “Romeo and Juliet”, cropped up while I was simply running out of ideas how to call yet another dance – and I didn’t feel like choosing a name alluding to the corona crisis again. I hope Shakespeare will forgive me.


created: 2022-01-01 18:56:01.784163+00
last_modified: 2022-01-11 08:21:48.940514+00
name: Bob Grant of Edinburgh
ucname: BOB GRANT OF EDINBURGH
intensity_bars: 8228/8888/8448/8008
devised: 2021-01-01
notes:
  In  memory  of  Bob  Grant,  1935-2021.  Bob  was  a  renowned  teacher  in  Edinburgh,  travelling around  the  world  to  teach,  and  was  also  my mentor for the final  part  of  my  Teacher’s  Certificate. Muriel’s  tune  “Bob  Grant  of  Edinburgh”  was  played  during  his  funeral,  and  I  felt  he  needed  to be  honoured  with  a  dance  to  match.  

  The  set,  hands  across  and  twiddle  on  bars  3-6  evokes  the  set,  turn  and  twiddle  at  the  start  of Bob’s  dance  “Dancing  Forth”.  

  When  I  first  learned  the  strathspey  poussette,  I  was  taught  it  in  the  symmetric  way  described here,  and  I  still  prefer  it  this  way.    Bob  Grant  wrote  an  article  for  RSCDS  magazine  Scottish Country  Dancer  (issue  13,  October  2011)  about  the  strathspey  poussette,  describing  how  in books  19  and  20  it  was  originally  described  symmetrically  and  only  later  was  the  standard changed  to  the  current  recommendation  with  1st  couple  nearer  the  men’s  side  and  2nd  couple nearer  the  women’s  side  at  the  end  of  bar  one.  

  Bob  received  a  lot  of  comment  from  other  dancers  wishing  for  the  return  of  the  symmetric poussette.    In  this  dance,  the  strathspey  poussette  should  be  danced  the  way  I  first  learned  it  and the  way  Bob  advocated.


created: 2014-08-31 14:23:39.156027+00
last_modified: 2022-01-11 11:24:27.312468+00
name: Awa the Noo
ucname: AWA THE NOO
intensity_bars: 88888/88888/88888/88888
devised: 2002-01-01
notes:
  This dance was translated into the Scottish Dancing métier by John Wilcock from the English Country Dance The Adieu, from C. & S. Thompson's 1776 Collection, republished by the Thompson firm in Volume 4 of their Compleat Collection, also published by Tom Cook in Hunter's Moon, Cotswold Music Society (July 1997); full acknowledgment is made to both these sources.


created: 2014-08-31 14:58:59.940014+00
last_modified: 2022-01-11 11:25:46.995821+00
name: Betty's Fancy
ucname: BETTYS FANCY
notes:
  The dance was written to celebrate dance teacher Betty Thomson's fifty years' membership of the Stafford & District Caledonian Society. The Stafford Knot is the badge of the Stafford family, and has been used on their coats of arms, liveries and buildings for centuries, e.g. on tiles at Stafford Castle. The family has been pleased to grant use of their badge to certain institutions, e.g. Staffordshire County Council, the North Staffordshire Railway ("The Knotty"), Staffordshire University, etc. and from this use it has sometimes incorrectly been termed the Staffordshire Knot. The correct term remains the Stafford Knot, however.


created: 1997-09-10 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-01-11 18:37:06.970763+00
name: An Niseag (Nessie)
ucname: NISEAG NESSIE
intensity_bars: 8668/8888/0880/8888/ 8888/8888/4884/8448
notes:
  This was originally entered in SCDDB as "An Niseach". The title in the book is "An Niseag". The former is kept as a spelling alias.


created: 2002-02-26 23:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-01-13 10:21:51.403277+00
name: Highlandman's Umbrella, The
ucname: HIGHLANDMANS UMBRELLA
intensity_bars: 6666 6666 5555 8888
notes:
  The Highlandman's Umbrella was a nickname for the railway bridge of Glasgow Central Station which could be used to shelter from the rain.

  According to George Watt (on the strathspey mailing list) "there is a song by the Alexander Brothers, The Heilanman's Umbrella. This was also recorded by Andy Stewart (<<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BX8ZKtndqtM>>). And there is, or was, a great wee music shop under the bridge that has an amazing selection of Scottish Dance CDs."


created: 2016-09-16 13:14:19.835055+00
last_modified: 2022-01-22 20:44:01.531677+00
name: Happy Trail
ucname: HAPPY TRAIL
notes:
  A scan available to the e-cribs team has the dance title as "Happy Trail" but <<https://my.strathspey.org/dd/issue/2715/|issue 2715>> reports another copy with title "Happy Trails". The latter is added as an alias.

  The e-cribs team scan suggests using "any suitable strathspey" whereas the Happy Trails scan gives a number of possible tunes.


created: 1997-08-22 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-01-29 00:33:49.341557+00
name: Argee Bargee Rant, The
ucname: ARGEE BARGEE RANT
intensity_bars: 888/888/888/880
devised: 1989-01-01
notes:
  Devised for the wedding of Janet Lyddon and Kevin Marchand in February 1989. They confirmed their mutual attraction on a narrow boat, or barge.


created: 2019-09-16 00:18:34.750714+00
last_modified: 2022-01-29 16:28:29.346617+00
name: Charlotte's Joy
ucname: CHARLOTTES JOY
intensity_bars: 800/888/844/844
devised: 2010-01-01
notes:
  Devised by Bob Branstrom, January 2010, for Charlotte Khuner, in response to her joyous and contagious smile while dancing.  

  Note: First couple should maintain bright smiles, shameless eye contact, even a gentle shoulder nudge in bars 17 & 18, but they should only touch hands during the turn in the last four bars.


created: 2003-05-10 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-09-23 17:31:20.115244+00
name: Borussia Strathspey, The
ucname: BORUSSIA STRATHSPEY
intensity_bars: 800/844/822/888
notes:
  Devised for Petra Dolata of Calgary, Canada (formerly of Dortmund, Gerrmany).  Petra is one of Borussia 
  Dortmund Football Club’s biggest fans, hence the Borussia in the title


created: 2001-09-12 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-01-15 23:22:12.910671+00
name: Daffodil, The
ucname: DAFFODIL
intensity_bars: 880/866/822/888
devised: 2000-01-01
notes:
  The dedication reads "In memory of John Baldwin of Hanley Swan, near Worcester. John's favourite flower was the daffodil."


created: 2022-01-19 00:52:05.50365+00
last_modified: 2022-01-19 09:44:40.493831+00
name: Fruit Basket Upset
ucname: FRUIT BASKET UPSET
notes:
  Notes from the deviser:

  The name is a local Portland Oregon name for the children’s game Musical Chairs.

  The dance was inspired by a performance at the Enumclaw Highland Games when Pat and I accidentally traded partners with another couple. It is a four couple jig. It starts with 1st couple position, then 2nd couple position, then back to 1st couple position and one more time from 2nd couple position. I use the word position because couples trade partner throughout the dance. The last figure of each time through has the man in 1st  position and the lady in 4th position dancing to the middle of the set, turning two-handed 1 ½ times with the man ending at the 4th position men’s side and the lady ending in the 1st position ladies side. Each time through you form a new couple until at the end of the 4th time through you return to your original partner.


created: 1997-12-21 23:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-01-19 09:48:50.402758+00
name: Trimble Tumble
ucname: TRIMBLE TUMBLE
devised: 1980-01-01
notes:
  " Devised for the West Point Grey Presbyterian Church S.C.D. Group, 12th & Trimble, Vancouver, B.C., Canada, 1980.


created: 2002-01-08 23:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-01-19 17:58:54.988338+00
name: Summer Sun Days
ucname: SUMMER SUN DAYS
intensity_bars: 800/880/800/888
notes:
  This dance was added to MiniCrib by Charles Upton. However his successors in the MiniCrib team do not have any original instructions other than the MiniCrib itself.


created: 2015-10-25 03:30:49.686395+00
last_modified: 2022-01-19 18:36:03.146244+00
name: Laurentian Reel, The
ucname: LAURENTIAN REEL
intensity_bars: 888/808/808/880
notes:
  Handwritten transcription, but signed by Andrew Gillies.
  The first line states that "? to members of the RSCDS Montreal Branch.


created: 2022-01-17 16:46:22.215253+00
last_modified: 2022-01-20 13:18:05.215441+00
name: Liz's News Reel
ucname: LIZS NEWS REEL
intensity_bars: 774/844/844/888
devised: 2021-01-01
notes:
  "For Liz Matthews after covid-19".

  During the first lockdown Liz produced a series of colourful newsletters for the Geneva Scottish Country Dancing Club while the group could not meet in person.


created: 2016-07-10 09:40:03.563266+00
last_modified: 2022-01-24 22:36:02.818727+00
name: Remparts de Séville, Les
ucname: REMPARTS DE SEVILLE
intensity_bars: 800/822/888/888
devised: 2014-03-01
notes:
  In Act 1 of Bizet’s opera “Carmen” the heroine asks to meet her lover at a tavern by Seville’s city walls (Les Remparts). The dance was written in Seville, Spain.


created: 1998-01-12 23:00:00+00
last_modified: 2023-09-01 11:32:36.879588+00
name: Cumberland Square Eight, The
ucname: CUMBERLAND SQUARE EIGHT
intensity_bars: 80/08/80/08/80/08/88/88
notes:
  This is a Ceilidh style dance, of "traditional" origin. It is known under a number of names with no real "original" description available.

  A description of this dance was published end of 1939 in the magazine "English Dance and Song" as "The Square Eight" with a subtitle "as danced in Cumberland, near the Scottish Border". You may want to read the scans at <<http://www.contrafusion.co.uk/Dances/EFDS3911-CumberlandSquareEight.html|contrafusion>> for more information.

  John Keppie wrote it up in 1992 as "Cumberland Square" in the book "Burns Night in the Annapolis Valley" and states "This is a North Country dance arranged for Scottish Country dancing. Square set of 4 couples with sets lined up across and up-and-down the room so that the sets can intermingle during bars 1-16".  Danced 2 x 64.

  More recently in 2017 a dance description entitled "The Cumberland Square Eight" was published in the "Collins Little Book: Scottish Dance".

  The dance has also been described as "The Cumberland Square Eight" in the <<http://www.scottishdance.net/ceilidh/dances.html#CumberlandSquareEight|Ceilidh Dance instructions>> on the Grand Chain server.

  Furthermore, "The Cumberland Square Eight" is mentioned in a number of books and novels such as "Disaster with the Fiend" by Sheila Lavelle (1988, p.76-83), "Popular Leisure in the Lake Counties" by Lyn Murfin (1990, p.194) or "Annie's Girl" by Audrey Howard (2002).

  From the published names one tends to speculate that while "The Square Eight" might have been an original name, the term "Cumberland" might have been added to distinguish this version danced in Cumberland (near the Scottish border) from other dances like the "Goathland Square Eight" or the "Yorkshire Square Eight". The abbreviation to "Cumberland Square" may be misleading as judging from the above sources it seems unlikely that this dance refers to a location called Cumberland Square.

  In <<https://my.strathspey.org/dd/issue/2633/|issue 2633>> Meryl Thomson provides information about the source of the dance:

  The dance "Cumberland Quadrille" appears in the handwritten notes of Thomas Murphy c.1830s, now held in the Mitchell LIbrary, Glasgow. The instructions appear to be a precursor of the current dance - Top and Bottom Highland Scottische poussette to opposite places. Sides the same. Top and Bottom repeat Back, Sides repeat back. Top and Bottom rights and lefts turn partners sides Ladies Chain all set to corners, Balance & turn partners, grand Chain half round, promenade to places all waltz.

  This was a single quadrille - quadrille being a historic term for a dance for 4 couples in a square set. 

  As for the "Basket swing" formation danced by 4 people in the center of the set - there are two versions mentioned as alternatives in e-crib. Both can be seen in videos of this dance.


created: 1998-01-04 23:00:00+00
last_modified: 2023-09-03 21:07:03.66606+00
name: St Johnstoun Reel, The
ucname: SAINT JOHNSTOUN REEL
intensity_bars: 800/800/800/880
devised: 1944-01-01
notes:
  According to <<link:thereel/307||13>>, this dance was devised in a German prisoner of war camp in Hohenfels, Bavaria in 1944.


created: 2003-07-06 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2024-01-16 18:02:48.847976+00
name: Sands of Forvie, The
ucname: SANDS OF FORVIE
intensity_bars: 880 855 855 808
notes:
  In memory of Margaret Kendall, dancer, teacher and artist.  Margeret loved Forvie in Aberdeenshire.  This nature reserve has a vast expanse of sand dunes, beneath which lies a village buried in a sandstorm over 400 years ago.


created: 2022-01-26 08:50:13.023086+00
last_modified: 2022-01-26 08:57:44.87331+00
name: Once on the Right, Once on the Left
ucname: ONCE ON THE RIGHT ONCE ON THE LEFT
devised: 2021-11-01
notes:
  On 31st August 2021, I had surgery to strengthen my right leg and prevent the threat of a hip fracture due to a cancer bone lesion. On 3rd September, after a few hours back home, I fell on my left side and broke my left hip. So I went back to hospital and had my left leg operated on to insert an artificial hip.  
  It was quite a hard moment to experience, but when I heard I was going to have an artificial hip, I didn’t get too deeply depressed because I remembered Fred DeMarse telling us, when he was teaching a class in Lyon a few years before, that he had two artificial hips. He was dancing in such a light and lively way, giving the feeling of complete ease, that you would never had known he had artificial hips. Therefore I felt quite confident that I could have a normal life and resume Scottish country dancing in the future, and it helped me to put up with what was happening.  
  In this dance, you give alternately right hand and left hand, referring to my two operated legs, first on the right side, then on the left side. However I must say each leg was operated only once!


created: 2021-10-09 11:10:46.728247+00
last_modified: 2022-01-26 17:31:25.413146+00
name: Marie-Do and Lucie
ucname: MARIEDO AND LUCIE
intensity_bars: 888/880/555/555
devised: 2021-08-01
notes:
  Marie-Do and Lucie, mother and daughter, are the two devoted nurses who came daily to my home to take care of me. They were very kind and very friendly, I really appreciated their visits.  
  The strathspey time represents their gentleness and kindness. And the movements danced on quick time are like nurses giving injections: needles approach, enter the skin, and then are pulled out. Dancers are invited to sing part of the tune, as my two nurses quite often used to start humming during the treatments.


created: 2017-06-22 17:49:22.465023+00
last_modified: 2022-01-30 20:26:10.575085+00
name: Three Rough Diamonds
ucname: THREE ROUGH DIAMONDS
notes:
  Dance for Three Rough Diamonds - Ossie Draper, Bob Morrison and Bernie Platzer, each celebrating their 75th year of enjoyment.  


  Note by SCDDB co-editor Eric Ferguson, 1 october 2019.  The instructions in the book [The Dancing Brolga Collection of SC Dances, Volume 3] are difficult to understand, as the "set and rotate for three couples" is quite different from the currently standard version. The e-crib explains the formation more precisely; it is non-progressive, but all change sides,


created: 1998-09-30 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-01-29 17:20:04.486631+00
name: Rosnor Abbey
ucname: ROSNOR ABBEY
intensity_bars: 44 44 80 88 88
notes:
  Rosnor Abbey

  There is much confusion about the precise execution of bars 1-2 and 9-10.

  The older variant is for both pairs (1W+2M and 1M+2W) to turn RH and face each other on the midline, W above M. This pattern is asymmetric; 1W+2M make a 7/8 turn and back, 1M+2W a 5/8 turn and back.  None of the instructions mention 5/8, 7/8 or even mentions the asymmetry

  Later instructions specify ½ turn, that would bring each pair to the same diagonal as where they started.

  The most recent instructions add an (optional?) ¾ turn. If taken precisely this brings the pairs to the other diagonal.

  For the record, here are some official descriptions; there's plenty of confusion.

  My (purple, undated) copy of MMM1 (page 38) has the following original text:  
  1-4	1st lady and 2nd man turn each other by the right hand for 2 skip change of step; facing up and down in the middle of the dance they set to each other.  
  5-8	They turn each  other with left hands back to places, and set.  
  9-16	1st man and 2nd lady do the same.  

  The 1992 Manual has a note:  
  Bars   1-4  1st woman and 2nd man turn to finish with 1st woman facing down and 2nd man facing up.  
  Bars 9-12  1st man and 2nd woman turn to finish with 1st man facing up and 2nd woman facing down.  

  The 2005 Manual does not have a note for the dance.

  The 2013 Manual has a note:  
  Bars 1-2  1st woman and 2nd man turn three-quarters to finish with 1st woman facing down and 2nd man facing up.  In earlier versions of these bars, 1st woman and 2nd man turn half way.  
  Bars 9-10  1st man and 2nd woman turn three-quarters to finish with 1st man facing up and 2nd woman facing down. Alternatively they may turn half way.  

  TACnotes 4th ed 1995 says:  
  1-2  1st woman & 2nd man three-quarters turn to finish with woman facing down and man up.  
  9-10  1st man and 2nd woman turn as bars 1-2.  

  TACnotes 5th ed 2008 says:  
  1-2  NB: In 2007 edition this is a HALF turn to face each other in middle of the set.  
  9-10  2nd woman and1st man turn as bars 1-2.  

  Read more: on the RSCDS website the Technique Panel has published a statement at <<https://www.rscds.org/learn/resources-dancers/technique-advisory-panel-dances>>.


created: 2002-08-26 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-01-29 17:36:33.600308+00
name: St Andrew's Fair
ucname: SAINT ANDREWS FAIR
intensity_bars: 800/888/888/888
devised: 1980-01-01
notes:
  The spelling "Andrew's" in the dance name shows that it refers to a Fair on St. Andrew's Day (November 30th), and not to a fair in the town of St. Andrews.


created: 1997-09-13 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-01-29 17:52:44.987346+00
name: Selkirk Reel
ucname: SELKIRK REEL
intensity_bars: 800 800 880 880
notes:
  The notes say this is a 'take-off' of "<<ddd:Jessie's Hornpipe#3246>>" with the same suggested music.


created: 2019-08-26 12:29:19.772557+00
last_modified: 2022-01-29 20:53:17.76285+00
name: Shy Lassie, The
ucname: SHY LASSIE
intensity_bars: 844/808/844/880
devised: 2012-01-01
notes:
  This dance was devised by Greg Reznick so that Melanie Howard, a delightful young dancer, would have a dance to go with her tune.


created: 2001-05-03 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-01-29 21:18:54.769734+00
name: Spiffin'
ucname: SPIFFIN
intensity_bars: 80808/04048/04048/40008
devised: 1992-12-25
notes:
  The dance was devised on December 25, 1992, by ten dancers, namely David and Avril Quarrie, Suzie Kinsman, Ingrid Kendall, Sue Eisley, John Collins, Elaine Brunken, Mary Brown, and Mel and Ellie Briscoe at Christmas at the Spiff Inn, Mt. Sidney, VA, USA.

  "Spiffin'" is a British expression meaning everything done just right. 

  Description revised April 8, 1993.


created: 2019-05-06 22:29:39.839238+00
last_modified: 2022-01-29 22:15:07.927925+00
name: Wining and Dining
ucname: WINING AND DINING
intensity_bars: 80800/84884/88888/80800
notes:
  To celebrate the occasion of Sara Andrews’ 50th birthday. Bars 13-20 are very slightly borrowed from the Aurora classic, the Elephant Stampede.


created: 2015-10-14 15:53:16.101961+00
last_modified: 2022-01-30 18:40:36.392292+00
name: Viking's Sheepskin, The
ucname: VIKINGS SHEEPSKIN
intensity_bars: 444/444/444/444/448/888
devised: 2014-05-27
notes:
  Notes from The Johnsonville Collection:

  Devised 27th May 2014. 
  The Sheepskin Hey is discussed in the last dance. There were two competing versions of the dance and I have recorded one as MOGGIE AND THE FISH, and one as here. The name comes from the Viking Ball, as discussed above, and began with a group of men marching as Vikings. All were wearing sheepkin jackets over their costumes. Again, the recommended tune is “Miss Gayton’s Hornpipe”. A suitable recording is “The Sound of Harris” by Andrew Rankine and his Band.

  Given to Charlotte Williams and the group at Eastbourne, the former convincing me to keep this version.


created: 2016-05-01 22:42:09.405396+00
last_modified: 2022-01-30 20:17:58.824435+00
name: Tuolumne Tournee
ucname: TUOLUMNE TOURNEE
intensity_bars: 8008/8888/8888/8008
devised: 1994-06-01
notes:
  The dance was written in summer of 1994 after a weeklong stay at Tuolumne (TWALL' uh mee) Lodge in Yosemite National Park with a group of Scottish Country Dancers. On one of our daily hikes on the twisting and turning trails, Linda Boucher playfully suggested we should write a dance with the tournee figure in it. Hence this dance.


created: 2010-08-07 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-02-01 16:37:54.550712+00
name: Valentine, The
ucname: VALENTINE
intensity_bars: 800 880 888 888
devised: 2008-02-14
notes:
  Written for Fiona Mackie on St Valentine's Day, 14 February 2008.

  Linda Gaul, responding to queries about [25-28], wrote (p6 of the October 2009 edition of Scottish Country Dancer): 

  "The original instructions  for bars 25-26 state “3rd, 1st and 2nd couples, giving right hands, turn half way round and remain in the middle”.  That is correct.   The only error was that the “all facing up” instruction got put at the end of bars 25-26 instead of 27-28.  

  I often say to my class that at the end of bar 28, you can get a kiss in, if you wish. You couldn’t do that if you were setting near the sidelines!  If the dancers in the videos are shown near the sidelines they are wrong!


created: 2014-02-15 21:23:09.591581+00
last_modified: 2022-02-02 03:04:07.23228+00
name: Amazing Grace Strathspey
ucname: AMAZING GRACE STRATHSPEY
devised: 2007-02-24
notes:
  Devised for Rene Johnstone, teacher at the Malaga Class on her 85th birthday.  Well known in the Dundee area she spent 30 years in Spain and then returned to Broughty Ferry


created: 2012-06-12 13:21:26.617478+00
last_modified: 2022-02-15 15:35:47.923547+00
name: Foundling, The
ucname: FOUNDLING
intensity_bars: 888/888/888/844
devised: 2011-03-01
notes:
  From the dance description:  
  Ashlyns School, Berkhamsted, in whose splendid hall Berkhamsted Strathspey and Reel Club's Annual Highland Ball has been held for many years, was originally The Foundling Hospital and as such it remained for 20 years. Founded by retired sea captain Thomas Coram in 1739 The London Foundling Hospital was originally in Bloomsbury, until in 1926 it temporarily moved to Redhill and then in 1935 after its completion to Ashlyns. The club member to whom this dance is dedicated, the late Lorna Brown, was a foundling at Ashlyns.


created: 1998-07-08 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-02-02 18:44:18.069523+00
name: Railway Man, The
ucname: RAILWAY MAN
notes:
  The original book says that in bars 13-16 1st & 4th couples should turn one and a quarter then cast ending on opposite sides. It is assumed this is a mistake as to get to opposite sides they just need to turn three quarters.


created: 2002-09-25 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2023-09-03 21:10:48.459576+00
name: Two Up, Two Down
ucname: TWO UP TWO DOWN
intensity_bars: 8880/8880/8888/8888
notes:
  "For Pat Batt and all the other two-sex Scottish Dancers who have to dance on either side of the set.  The dance was inspired by Pat's poem "<<https://www.rscdslondon.org.uk/_files/ugd/580b0a_f8361efbdfbe4240a2890f102535430b.pdf|The Ladies Man>>".  

  Note: there is a misprint in the description published in the *5th Carnforth Collection* in bars 25-32 - it should say 3rd & 2nd couples, and at the same time 1st and 4th couples pass right shoulders to start.


created: 2012-06-12 13:15:27.138979+00
last_modified: 2022-02-15 15:31:04.2653+00
name: Sixtieth Celebrations
ucname: SIXTIETH CELEBRATIONS
intensity_bars: 880/822/822/888
devised: 2011-02-01
notes:
  From the dance description: 
  The Berkhamsted Strathspey and Reel Club celebrate the sixtieth anniversary of its formation in 2012 and coincidentally Jeremy and Anne Newton also celebrate their sixtieth birthdays in 2012.


created: 2012-06-12 13:30:47.962099+00
last_modified: 2022-02-15 15:39:04.557954+00
name: Ladies of Berkeau, The
ucname: LADIES OF BERKEAU
intensity_bars: 888/888/800/880
devised: 2009-01-01
notes:
  From the dance description:  
  The dance was devised in June 2009 by Jon Allen-Friend of Glenview Scottish Country Dancers, Toronto, who is a regular visitor to the Berkhamsted Strathspey & Reel Club's dances. The two clubs are twinned. Berkhamsted is sometimes called 'Berko' for short, and the spelling Berkeau in the dance name is a play on the French-Canadian connection.


created: 2013-01-05 09:11:33.17609+00
last_modified: 2022-04-26 01:19:37.112927+00
name: Lost Thread, The
ucname: LOST THREAD
intensity_bars: 800 888 888 888 808
devised: 2009-03-01
notes:
  Written for the retirement of a prison officer, colloquially called “a screw” (which has a thread, of course). 


created: 2001-05-03 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-02-03 18:30:34.232472+00
name: Pretty River Strathspey, The
ucname: PRETTY RIVER STRATHSPEY
intensity_bars: 800/888/888/888
devised: 1994-01-01
notes:
  Pretty River Strathspey - Background

  Dancers in the Toronto area will be saddened to learn that my father, Gordon McHaffie, passed away on Christmas Day 2000 at the age of 96. He had been in failing health for some time.

  Gordon arrived in Canada from England in 1950, and shortly thereafter became one of the small group of early enthusiasts in Toronto to enjoy Scottish Country dancing, both at Rosedale Presbyterian Church and at the Fort York Armouries. He played a role in persuading a number of Toronto dancers of the day that they did not need bagpipes to do Scottish Country Dancing -- in some military circles that had been considered the normal or even the proper dancing music.

  His dancing career spanned over 85 years. His earliest memory of dancing was learning the Eightsome Reel, as a child of six, with his playmates, while his mother played the piano. He continued dancing
  into his nineties.  He danced with The Glenview Group from its inception and was made a Life Member of that group. After his retirement in 1969, he danced with the small group in N Ottawa, near his home in the Pretty River Valley, near Collingwood.

  For his 90th birthday, I wrote the dance, “The Pretty River Strathspey.”  Those who would like to remember and celebrate his life might like to try the dance, which has not been published before.  The instructions follow. It can be danced to any pastoral style 3 x 32 bar Strathspey, but the tune for the dance is really Stan Hamilton's, “Compliments to Gordon McHaffie”, which is so far unpublished, but was Stan's own message of congratulation to Gordon.  


created: 2001-11-21 23:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-02-05 11:25:47.86151+00
name: Connie's Jig
ucname: CONNIES JIG
intensity_bars: 800 880 808 888 888 888
notes:
  "Written in fond memory of Connie Grainger, past president of the Hereford Branch."

  <<https://my.strathspey.org/dd/issue/2718/|Additional information>> from the deviser:

  Connie was a traditionalist and disliked the many new dance sequences which complicated her final years' dancing pleasure as she could *[not?]* get her head around many of them. This dance uses no 'new' sequences. Moreover, when she had to stop dancing through ill-health, she still got pleasure from watching, and laughing when mistakes were made; one unusual move in the dance provides many opportunities for such laughter.


created: 1997-09-08 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-02-05 23:57:12.561422+00
name: MacGregors Gathering
ucname: MACGREGORS GATHERING
intensity_bars: 88 88 88 88
devised: 1986-01-01
notes:
  In the original book, this dance is named without an apostrophe  on the page for the dance, but with an apostrophe in the table of contents. The latter is added as a spelling alias.


created: 2022-02-07 10:41:01.912017+00
last_modified: 2022-02-08 21:31:16.312882+00
name: Barbara's Favourites
ucname: BARBARAS FAVOURITES
intensity_bars: 800/888/822/880
devised: 2022-01-01
notes:
  Devised in memory of the deviser's wife and dancing partner for 64 years, Barbara, the dance is constructed from some of her favourite sequences.

  Muriel Johnstone has made a recording of her music for the dance. Apart from the original tune for this dance (<<ddt:Barbara's Favourites>>) it also includes <<ddt:Dean Brig of Edinburgh, The>>, <<ddt:Ceilidh Umbrella, The>> and Atholl Palace.

  The original instructions can be found in <<https://my.strathspey.org/dd/issue/2720/>>.

  Less able/less energetic dancers, who find the return to own sides via passing right shoulders in bars 23 - 24 too demanding, may turn right hands.


created: 2022-02-11 11:04:11.008894+00
last_modified: 2022-02-11 11:04:11.008894+00
name: My Best Friend, Meo
ucname: MY BEST FRIEND MEO
devised: 2012-05-18
notes:
  Written for Korbkarn “Meo” Hanutsaha, 10/16/1952-10/21/2011, a long-time Scottish Country Dancer, RSCDS member, and teacher for her benefit dance held May 18, 2012


created: 2014-09-03 14:26:20.786744+00
last_modified: 2022-02-13 16:59:16.47684+00
name: Almo Rant, The
ucname: ALMO RANT
intensity_bars: 8888/8080/0808/8888/8888/8888
devised: 1957-01-01
notes:
  Written by Gill Russell and Rita Marlow on the occasion of the golden wedding of Alister and Molly Reid.  This was in 1957 in Surrey, UK. The dance name is thus derived from their combined names.

  The reel is 2 x 48.


created: 2022-02-10 09:23:29.897694+00
last_modified: 2022-02-11 10:16:50.320558+00
name: Ambulance Drivers' Choreography, The
ucname: AMBULANCE DRIVERS CHOREOGRAPHY
intensity_bars: 800/888/844/848
devised: 2021-07-01
notes:
  During the months I was ill, I was driven by ambulance quite a few times. Once I was struck by the well-coordinated, accurate and mirroring movements of the ambulance drivers as they pushed the stretcher I was lying on into the ambulance and secured it. I found it interesting and beautiful and this title occurred to me. Then I wanted to devise a dance containing only mirror movements to refer to this particular moment.


created: 2012-06-12 13:34:14.07318+00
last_modified: 2022-02-15 15:40:46.630152+00
name: Trip to Perth
ucname: TRIP TO PERTH
intensity_bars: 800/888/848/888
devised: 2010-11-01
notes:
  From the dance description:  
  Devised by Jane Rose, current President of the Berkhamsted Strathspey and Reel Club, with friends Maureen Ainsworth, Jon Allen-Friend and Stephen Webb while on a trip to Perth for the AGM of the RSCDS in November 2010.


created: 1998-11-01 23:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-02-14 18:08:20.605615+00
name: Valentine for Vanessa, A
ucname: VALENTINE FOR VANESSA
devised: 1988-01-01
notes:
  Devised by Oberdan Otto for his "dear wife Vanessa".

  Danced on 14 February 2015 in Schlüchtern-Vollmerz.


created: 2012-06-12 13:35:32.021949+00
last_modified: 2022-02-15 15:41:33.844163+00
name: Diamond Reflections
ucname: DIAMOND REFLECTIONS
intensity_bars: 88/80/88/88
devised: 2011-04-01
notes:
  From the dance description:  
  Like the reflections from light on the diagonals of a cut diamond, Scottish country dancing brings many special memories over the years upon which to reflect.


created: 2012-06-12 13:36:57.559627+00
last_modified: 2022-02-15 15:43:12.760383+00
name: Dulce in Dacorum est
ucname: DULCE IN DACORUM EST
intensity_bars: 8448/8888/8888/8888/8888
devised: 2011-04-01
notes:
  From the dance description:  
  'Dacorum' was the Roman name for the Berkhamsted area. The latin title translates: 'It is Sweet in Dacorum', 'Dulce' is pronounced 'Dul-chay',


created: 2012-06-12 13:40:35.031806+00
last_modified: 2022-02-15 15:44:04.391305+00
name: Lightning at Dawn
ucname: LIGHTNING AT DAWN
intensity_bars: 8880/8088/8260/8422
devised: 2011-03-01
notes:
  From the dance description:  
  Lightning at dawn is always exciting. 'Lightning' also happens to be the name of Ann and lan's whippet, who greets the day with energy and enthusiasm.


created: 2012-06-12 13:42:11.362434+00
last_modified: 2022-02-15 15:45:37.353444+00
name: Silver Roses
ucname: SILVER ROSES
intensity_bars: 6666/6666/0808/8080/8888
devised: 2008-09-01
notes:
  According to the dance description, Ken Martlew devised the dance for Brian and Jane Rose on celebrating their Silver Wedding on 3rd September 2008.


created: 2005-04-27 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-02-15 15:47:42.284036+00
name: Our Friend Robert
ucname: OUR FRIEND ROBERT
intensity_bars: 822/888/844/866
devised: 2004-01-01
notes:
  From the dance description:  
  This dance was devised for Stephen’s good friend Robert Bateson to celebrate his 70th birthday on 9 January 2004 as a thank you to him for many years of friendship. The dance includes figures particularly liked by Robert.


created: 2012-06-12 13:52:42.405007+00
last_modified: 2022-02-15 15:55:32.723567+00
name: Monday Welcome
ucname: MONDAY WELCOME
intensity_bars: 880/808/880/888
devised: 2010-12-01
notes:
  From the dance description:  
  Berkhamsted Strathspey and Reel Club hold an advanced class on Mondays, which Tom and Betty Arrol [the deviser of the dance] attend.


created: 1998-09-30 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-02-17 16:27:24.528895+00
name: Lady Home's Jig
ucname: LADY HOMES JIG
intensity_bars: 888 888 800 822
notes:
  The instructions in MMM1 2nd edition, revised 1966 specify:

  17-20 1st couple cross giving right hand and cast off to second place.  2nd couple step up on bars 19-20.

  21-24 1st couple giving left hand cross back to own sides and cast off around 3rd couple to meet partner, and lead up to face first corners.

  TAC notes suggests phrasing of bars 17-24 should be: cross and cast (3), cross and cast (3), lead to corners (2).

  According to strathspey list thread <<https://www.strathspey.org/lists/strathspey@strathspey.org/t/63976/>> the name is pronounced 'Hume' (Hyoom). See also <<https://www.clan-home.org/history-of-the-homes/>>.


created: 2021-04-14 10:48:57.118568+00
last_modified: 2022-02-16 08:25:26.12725+00
name: Chambéry Blues
ucname: CHAMBERY BLUES
intensity_bars: 862/844/866/844/888
devised: 2020-06-01
notes:
  This dance was created to combat the sadness and the frustration we all felt when we had to cancel our international Easter weekend planned in Chambéry in April 2020. Dedicated to the invited team: Ron Wallace, Keith Smith and James Gray, to the Paris Band’s musicians and to the Chambéry Committee.


created: 2022-02-16 14:52:54.930937+00
last_modified: 2022-02-17 00:11:28.546864+00
name: Whole of the Moon, The
ucname: WHOLE OF THE MOON
devised: 2021-09-18
notes:
  Devised in memory of Pam Hood. For further details see <<https://mailchi.mp/728d9b8bae62/the-quaich-committee-first-draft-10543548?e=[UNIQID]>> (issue 19, December 2021, of the RSCDS Leicester magazine <<https://www.rscdsleicester.org.uk/the-quaich-archive/|The Quaich>>).


created: 1999-08-06 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-02-17 16:27:41.20829+00
name: Earl of Home, The
ucname: EARL OF HOME
intensity_bars: 8888 8000 8220 8880
notes:
  This dance has the progression of a 3-couple dance in a 4-couple set, and is danced eight times through.  However, as all four couples dance bars 1-8 it is technically a 4-couple dance.

  According to strathspey list thread <<https://www.strathspey.org/lists/strathspey@strathspey.org/t/63976/>> the name is pronounced 'Hume' (Hyoom). See also <<https://www.clan-home.org/history-of-the-homes/>>.


created: 2022-02-17 09:04:59.452266+00
last_modified: 2022-02-17 17:51:52.194358+00
name: Herons of Pen Mané
ucname: HERONS OF PEN MANE
intensity_bars: 808/880/808/888
devised: 2020-06-01
notes:
  Pen Mané marsh is an ornithological natural park on the East side of Lorient. Devised by Clementine Job & Anne Dejean


created: 2022-02-18 21:21:42.061758+00
last_modified: 2022-02-18 21:49:56.332643+00
name: Sweethearting Nightshade
ucname: SWEETHEARTING NIGHTSHADE
intensity_bars: 844/844/866/888
devised: 2022-02-01
notes:
  The title of this dance is an anagram of the title of the dance which inspired it, loaned it most of its formations, and music.


created: 1998-04-08 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-02-20 17:43:52.119537+00
name: Ellenbrook
ucname: ELLENBROOK
intensity_bars: 880/822/844/888
devised: 1977-01-01
notes:
  The original books says this dance is
  "for Western Australia for the 150th Anniversary of the founding of the State
  ... in response to a request from Mary Mackenzie."

  Ellenbrook, the tune by Ian Powrie, was the name of Ian's house in Western Australia.


created: 2017-10-28 20:13:13.603681+00
last_modified: 2022-03-10 23:52:47.128972+00
name: 100th English Weekend reloaded, The
ucname: 100TH ENGLISH WEEKEND RELOADED
devised: 2013-07-07
notes:
  Devised for Lothar Rummel's 100th English Weekend on 5th to 7th of Juli, 2013 in Hedersleben, Germany.
  The dance was updated in June 2014 for better flow.

  The dance description was online available at http://www.scd-chemnitz.de/tanze/ - however, the Scottish Dance Group in Chemnitz seemingly has dissolved and thus also the server does not exist anymore.


created: 2021-12-04 23:21:59.43892+00
last_modified: 2022-02-21 09:31:20.042076+00
name: Slowly But Surely
ucname: SLOWLY BUT SURELY
intensity_bars: 181/383/383/844
devised: 2021-06-01
notes:
  When I got diagnosed with cancer, the news spread quickly among the scd groups of the surrounding area, and I received a lot of lovely supporting messages from scd dancers. Also, a friend of mine told me to imagine myself dancing once I had recovered, and before that, dancing a not too energetic dance once I had only partly recovered, so that my brain would help me recover. All this gave me the idea to devise new dances and this was the first one, aimed for the period on the way to recovery. I sent the instructions to all those who had written to me, and I received videos from three groups dancing this dance (Méaudre, Grenoble and Lyon), and it was just wonderful to watch these in my hospital bed.  
  The dancer in remission starts in first place, this is why the 1st couple dance less than the others (no turn at the end), they have to save energy and enter the dance progressively.


created: 2002-01-08 23:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-02-21 13:19:52.857673+00
name: Laird of Milton's Daughter, The
ucname: LAIRD OF MILTONS DAUGHTER
intensity_bars: 800/633/633/888
devised: 1950-01-01
notes:
  This is one of the earliest “modern” dances published by the Society
  (1963 in <<ddpub:Book 22>>).

  There are a few curious anecdotes about the origin of the title of
  this dance. George Emmerson's *Scotland Through Her Country Dances*
  used to claim that Flora MacDonald, well known from the mythology
  surrounding Bonnie Prince Charlie, was the daughter of a laird of
  Milton (on the west coast of South Uist) and that the dance was named
  after her. In the second edition of the book there is a reference to
  the dance in the index, but the page in question has been replaced by
  a facsimile of the old description of a completely different dance!
  Apparently the second edition thus corrected one of the bigger bloopers
  made in the first, in a somewhat ham-fisted manner, without also
  fixing the index.

  The correct story goes as follows: According to *Book 22*, the dance was
  “Devised by Lord Craigmyle while in India”. The Laird of Milton in
  question is known to be the late Chief of Clan Arthur, James
  E. MacArthur-Moir (1914-2004), who apparently worked in India for a
  while. The dance was invented on the occasion of the birth of his
  daughter – according to *Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 107th
  edition*, she is called Mary MacArthur (now Wood) and was born on 10
  October 1950.


created: 1997-12-03 23:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-02-21 21:52:50.242807+00
name: Puddin 'n' Pam
ucname: PUDDIN N PAM
notes:
  This dance was composed by Mrs. Joyce Elliott, one of the Leicester Branch Teachers. It is ascribed to Mrs. Pamela Hood who had an uncanny knack or tracking down puddings in foreign countries when they were in short supply.

  Instructions may be found towards the end of issue 12 of the Leicester Branch bulletin The Quaich at <<https://us4.campaign-archive.com/?u=78fe0ddc70d920bcc3f82add4&id=700d2e1e62>>.


created: 2005-04-13 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-02-22 18:37:48.565132+00
name: Canongait
ucname: CANONGAIT
devised: 1968-01-01
notes:
  Canongait in the old city of Edinburgh is reputed to be the "gait" or walk of the Augustinian Canons of
  Holyrood Abbey, leading from the confines of the sanctuary to The Royal Mile and the precincts of the
  city proper.


created: 1997-08-20 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-02-22 18:51:33.541788+00
name: Dalston's Delight
ucname: DALSTONS DELIGHT
devised: 1965-01-01
notes:
  The dedication reads "To Miss F. Adams of Wishaw". The original notes explain that *Miss Adams chose the title of this dance to remind her of the weekend when she taught at the Carlisle and Border Branch Weekend School at Dalston Hall, near Carlisle.*


created: 1997-05-17 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-02-24 20:41:09.212456+00
name: Haggis Tree, The
ucname: HAGGIS TREE
intensity_bars: 84/88/88/88
devised: 1982-01-01
notes:
  This is a "Pastoral", which is danced to slow airs with slow strathspey-like steps. The dedication reads "for Freddy Sverdlove of New York".


created: 2016-09-04 10:16:36.231903+00
last_modified: 2022-03-25 18:39:59.51037+00
name: Diamonds are Forever
ucname: DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER
intensity_bars: 4444/6666/6666/7337
notes:
  Devised by Roberta Gotfried in celebration of her parents’ 60th wedding anniversary

  Music: “Roz and Gil Gotfried” as composed by Andy Imbrie (see page 26)


created: 2022-07-04 16:07:06.301887+00
last_modified: 2022-07-05 10:13:37.955646+00
name: Cinderella
ucname: CINDERELLA
devised: 2022-01-01
notes:
  The original deviser of this dance (found c.2010) is unknown. This modified version of the instructions was provided by Stephen Webb.

  Suitable recorded music:  
  *The 19th Hole* by Ian Munro recorded on CD *Double Take* - Track 5 


created: 2022-07-04 22:42:40.806644+00
last_modified: 2022-07-05 07:55:18.25303+00
name: Hurtling Hedgehog, The
ucname: HURTLING HEDGEHOG
intensity_bars: 800/888/888/888
devised: 2019-01-01
notes:
  Boris was named during the Tory Party leadership election. He is quite portly, bumbles around a lot, changing direction without warning and trampling over everything in his path.


created: 2022-03-26 20:39:34.358359+00
last_modified: 2022-12-01 14:53:22.778046+00
name: 'Halfway House', Petone, The
ucname: HALFWAY HOUSE PETONE
intensity_bars: 8080/0808/8440/8448
notes:
  Devised 2019-05
  The Community House in Britannia Street, Petone, has been the venue for Region Committee Meetings for a number of years. It would be difficult to find a suitable venue at the junction of State Highways 1 and 2. This would be almost equidistant between the two northernmost clubs, Waikanae and Carterton.


created: 2022-02-24 19:06:43.216288+00
last_modified: 2022-02-26 10:52:52.459059+00
name: H.A.D.
ucname: HAD
devised: 2021-08-01
notes:
  HAD stands for “hospitalisation à domicile”, which means Hospital At Home. I spent many days and weeks in hospital, but I also had the chance to be on a hospital at home programme for quite long periods, which was very nice! I really enjoyed being back home with my husband and two children, but still being as well taken care of as if I were in hospital. This department is very professional, the whole team is really great and includes a lovely and marvellous coordinating doctor and a fantastic psychologist. It is a dance for advanced dancers to symbolise these experienced professionals. The slow strathspey time represents how they took the time to listen to me and to look after me in a very reassuring way, and is also meant to describe their
  sweetness. It’s a two-couple dance (small number), because they treat patients in a very personalised way.


created: 2004-09-10 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-02-28 00:05:27.933259+00
name: Merchiston Castle Jig
ucname: MERCHISTON CASTLE JIG
intensity_bars: 8888 8448 8888 8008
devised: 2004-09-21
notes:
  Devised for Katy Thompson and Andrew Gray in honour of their wedding in Barclay Church in Edinburgh on the 21st of August, 2004


created: 2022-03-03 18:04:47.537619+00
last_modified: 2022-03-03 18:04:47.537619+00
name: Hands up!
ucname: HANDS UP
notes:
  At the beginning of the dance weekend in Kazan I mentioned about keeping right hands positions with
  joining at shoulder height and with elbows down, especially in two hands turns. Never seen sucn a brilliant
  hand usage than for the next two days!


created: 2022-03-03 17:51:27.123538+00
last_modified: 2022-03-03 17:51:27.123538+00
name: Secret Recipe, A
ucname: SECRET RECIPE
notes:
  We have some dishes at our dance events. Once someone said: “We know all your recipes“. We answered “No, we always have a couple of secret recipes”. And cooked two new dishes. One of them was this dance with “Flat Set and Link” formation.


created: 2022-03-03 17:59:54.460918+00
last_modified: 2022-06-16 22:27:24.624739+00
name: Haggis Muse, The
ucname: HAGGIS MUSE
notes:
  The dance [is] dedicated to Arina Volgina, who once helped me to cook haggis on the night before St. Andrew’s Day.  It was a giant leap in my ability of cooking haggises.


created: 2022-03-03 17:55:53.871167+00
last_modified: 2022-03-03 17:55:53.871167+00
name: Against the Wind
ucname: AGAINST THE WIND
notes:
  When your way leads against the usual directions. Written about the strong life situation it becames the
  kind of dance where you can test who leads – your mind or your body. That’s the challeng


created: 2021-11-30 11:36:22.241888+00
last_modified: 2022-03-13 18:10:04.18078+00
name: Hello "C" Goodbye
ucname: HELLO C GOODBYE
intensity_bars: 600/844/888/888
devised: 2021-01-01
notes:
  In this dance 1st woman represents corona virus and the hand claps are the widening spread of infections.


created: 2022-03-03 00:22:39.604967+00
last_modified: 2022-07-05 22:34:54.523179+00
name: Give Way to Kangaroos
ucname: GIVE WAY TO KANGAROOS
devised: 2022-01-01
notes:
  The original video (<<https://youtu.be/PJxJTSD4imU>>) gave the title as "Give a Way to Kangaroo" which is also in the original version of the QS Twin Peaks Blue book. A later video has "Give Way to Kangaroos" which was added as a spelling alias. Later publication in the book Couple One Ready changed the name to "Give Way to Kangaroos" which is now the official title.

  The instructions for bars 17-20 in the book have the ladies slipping left into the centre first whereas the videos show the men slipping into the centre first. The e-crib follows the videos.


created: 2022-03-26 20:21:40.606067+00
last_modified: 2022-10-27 07:37:09.3739+00
name: Camping at Victoria Mines
ucname: CAMPING AT VICTORIA MINES
notes:
  Victoria Mines is an old silver mine on the trail between the Inca city of Choquequirao and modern day Yanama in the Peruvian Andes. To get from Choquequirao to Victoria Mines you have to zigzag down a vertical descent of around 1000m to cross the Rio Blanco and then zigzag 2000m vertical ascent up the other side of the valley to get to the mines. The mines are at an altitude of 4130m above sea level and the tailings make a great camping spot after a very long day's walk. The views are stunning!

  In the original book the tune was given as <<ddt:Hills of Lorne, The>> (as for Autumn in Appin). However in <<https://my.strathspey.org/dd/issue/2891/|issue 2891>> the deviser explains this was a mistake and it should be <<ddt:Doon the Burn, Davie Lad#403>>.


created: 2019-10-24 16:53:21.68702+00
last_modified: 2022-03-07 18:13:10.899687+00
name: Little Girl in Red Shoes, A
ucname: LITTLE GIRL IN RED SHOES
intensity_bars: 6006/8888/8008/8008
devised: 2015-07-01
notes:
  Devised to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the SCDC Clara in Yokohama and dedicated to Mrs Yoko Takahashi the organiser and teacher of the club.

  The name and first tune of the dance come from a sad story and song based in Yokohama (not far from Tokyo). A summary of the story, about a little Japanese girl separated from her mother and raised by western missionaries, can be found at <<https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akai_Kutsu>>. Akai Kutsu is a Japanese translation of [a little girl in] red shoes.

  SCD club "Clara" asked Marchan to devise a dance with this famous song, because Clara is a club in Yokohama. The Clara club made several recordings of the music for this dance featuring other Japanese hit songs with a link to Yokohama. These were played by Bluebell SCD band (piano: Akiko Kasama, fiddle: Kana Otake, recorder: Fumitaka Saito, drum: Akiyo Shito).


created: 2007-06-20 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-03-06 19:08:43.054337+00
name: Fireside Lounge, The
ucname: FIRESIDE LOUNGE
devised: 2000-01-01
notes:
  »Devised by Tim Harrison, San Pedro, California.

  Note::
    This dance was devised in the Fireside Lounge of the St. Jerome's University at the University of
    Waterloo in Waterloo, Canada. The Fireside Lounge is where after-parties were held during the
    Teachers' Association (Canada) Summer School 2000. People arrive at the after-party and join
    a group for chatting. As the party continues people leave that group to join another group while
    others wander from group to group searching for conversation in which they can participate. The
    dance idea was suggested by Karen Baisden of Seattle, Washington, USA.«


created: 2022-03-07 18:54:11.926397+00
last_modified: 2022-03-07 18:54:11.926397+00
name: Anniversary Celebration Jig
ucname: ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION JIG
devised: 2021-12-01
notes:
  "For Alderley & District Caledonian Society’s 50th Anniversary. It is one of a suite of three dances to mark the occasion and danced publicly at their 50th Anniversary Dance on 11th March 2022."


created: 2022-03-07 00:40:49.003583+00
last_modified: 2022-03-07 00:47:06.524304+00
name: Two Hearts Entwined
ucname: TWO HEARTS ENTWINED
intensity_bars: 800/800/633/633
devised: 2022-02-01
notes:
  I had an idea for the figure in bars 1-8 and realized it looks like a heart when danced. It seemed appropriate the idea occurred in early in February before Valentine’s Day.


created: 2006-12-11 23:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-03-07 00:48:23.808764+00
name: Two Hearts Joined
ucname: TWO HEARTS JOINED
intensity_bars: 80808/08088/60024/02640
devised: 2006-10-01
notes:
  This dance was written for Marsha Hanson and Clay Spurlock on the occasion of their marriage October 14, 2006.


created: 2022-03-09 09:35:22.492345+00
last_modified: 2022-03-09 10:18:19.160246+00
name: Dance with Sashes
ucname: DANCE WITH SASHES
notes:
  From the dance description: When writing this dance, I was inspired by a display done by the Glasgow University Scottish Country Dance Club also using sashes.


created: 2022-03-09 09:45:38.808235+00
last_modified: 2022-03-09 10:22:16.599462+00
name: Maxglan Medley
ucname: MAXGLAN MEDLEY
notes:
  Maxglan is the part of Salzburg where The Flying Scotsman Scottish Dancers Salzburg founded by Regina Freinbichler used to dance.


created: 2022-03-09 09:50:22.843268+00
last_modified: 2022-03-09 10:23:09.879371+00
name: Fasching Hornpipe
ucname: FASCHING HORNPIPE
notes:
  Fasching is the German word for carneval. This dance, as you can see in the video, was danced at a carneval party.


created: 2012-09-08 21:55:28.962131+00
last_modified: 2022-03-10 18:57:16.105331+00
name: 3 Feisty Women
ucname: 3 FEISTY WOMEN
intensity_bars: 880 888 800 826
devised: 2007-04-01
notes:
  Devised in the Cleveland Heights Group, spring 2007

  The 6-couple version of this dance is called "Double the Trouble"


created: 2022-03-07 18:48:07.110095+00
last_modified: 2023-04-05 10:19:28.622423+00
name: Kawagoe Matsuri Strathspey
ucname: KAWAGOE MATSURI STRATHSPEY
devised: 2018-11-01
notes:
  "In honour of the Alba Scottish Country Dance Groups in Japan, taught by Masako Nomura and who made me so welcome."


created: 2016-06-09 10:30:33.276689+00
last_modified: 2022-03-16 23:13:23.217747+00
name: Brighouse Bay
ucname: BRIGHOUSE BAY
intensity_bars: 8080 8484 0808 8888
notes:
  The deviser writes that
  "As a child my parents took us to Brighouse Bay campsite for summer holidays. I have since taken all my children there for holidays and Lewis had his first experience of camping there age 2."


created: 2022-03-11 00:03:49.448301+00
last_modified: 2022-03-11 00:07:18.575994+00
name: Emerging from Loch Down
ucname: EMERGING FROM LOCH DOWN
intensity_bars: 880/888/888/888
devised: 2021-09-01
notes:
  Loch Down, which features naturally rising bubbles due to geothermal activity, was little known until recently due to its very self-isolated, but airy and well ventilated location. A dip in the water can present challenges as there are strong cross and side currents, known to swimmers as lateral flow tests. It is best visited alone or in small numbers, avoiding too much face to face contact, as mixing of large numbers of men and women in Loch Down can provoke polygamous chain reactions (PCRs)!

  This dance is dedicated to Martina Mueller-Franz who inspired the title (and consequently the dance) with a serendipitous typo ("lockdown" to "lochdown") in an email she sent me as the pandemic restrictions were being eased. We owe her many thanks. Firstly for regularly providing information to complete and correct the strathspey database. And secondly for the large number of Scottish Country Dance videos she has made over the years and uploaded to her youtube channel (<<https://www.youtube.com/c/strathspey64/videos>>).


created: 2022-03-12 21:23:37.182722+00
last_modified: 2022-03-12 21:23:37.182722+00
name: Why Knot
ucname: WHY KNOT
notes:
  Source: <<https://youtu.be/wf3JBcvyIiI|youtube video>> by the Kalamazoo Royal Scottish Country Dancers, Michigan.


created: 2022-03-20 12:16:37.672224+00
last_modified: 2022-03-20 17:10:38.240471+00
name: My Little Buttercup
ucname: MY LITTLE BUTTERCUP
devised: 2016-11-01
notes:
  There is also a 5 couple version of this dance (<<http://www.rscds-swws.org/news/stories/MyLittleButtercupTenPesoVersion.pdf>>).


created: 1997-04-03 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-03-17 08:54:56.029164+00
name: Corbie-Stones
ucname: CORBIESTONES
intensity_bars: 880/666/877/888
notes:
  Corbie-stones are the step-like projections on the sloping adge of a gable, found particularly on houses in the finishing villages of Fife.


created: 2011-08-22 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-03-17 20:55:51.133725+00
name: Devil's Water, The
ucname: DEVILS WATER
intensity_bars: 8008/8888/8888/8008/8008
devised: 1999-03-01
notes:
  From the dance notes:
  "The Devil's Water is a small river between Corbridge and Hexham. The dance represents how the water swirls and flows and reminds me of pleasant walks alongside the river."


created: 2015-01-15 16:09:16.884938+00
last_modified: 2022-03-21 18:01:02.894399+00
name: Broome Rigg, The
ucname: BROOME RIGG
notes:
  2 couple dance in 3 or 4 couple set.

  The original version of this dance was subsequently revised. In an email from Duncan Keppie he writes that "I substituted the Ancient Poussette for the Highland Pousette". The PDF of <<ddpub:#1207>> on the MiniCrib website still has the original version (as of March 2022). The instructions available at <<https://www.scottish-country-dancing-dictionary.com/dance-crib/broome-rigg.html>> have the later version with the Ancient Poussette.


created: 2015-02-09 23:05:28.538447+00
last_modified: 2022-03-20 12:50:55.535271+00
name: Plethora of Piñatas, A
ucname: PLETHORA OF PINATAS
intensity_bars: 800/888/888/888
devised: 2014-10-01
notes:
  There is also a 5 couple version of this dance (<<http://www.rscds-swws.org/news/stories/PlethoraPinatasTenPesoVersion.pdf>>).


created: 2022-03-21 21:56:49.838641+00
last_modified: 2022-03-21 21:58:59.649928+00
name: Caleco
ucname: CALECO
notes:
  Demonstration dance devised by a local dancer in Leicester in the 1980s.

  The instructions called the dance "Caleco" but the <<https://youtu.be/8yEy2VAHfjc|video>> has "Calico".


created: 2015-01-09 14:35:50.873259+00
last_modified: 2022-05-07 22:14:41.107973+00
name: Villain's Turnstile Jig, The
ucname: VILLAINS TURNSTILE JIG
devised: 2009-05-31
notes:
  Dedicated to Richard Francis, a Villa fan, who are known as Villans.

  The dance was published with the title "Villain's" but the dedicatee says it should be "Villan's" which is added as an alias.


created: 2011-07-23 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-03-22 21:32:18.885731+00
name: Dun Arisaig
ucname: DUN ARISAIG
intensity_bars: 8888/8888/4444/0808
notes:
  Adrian writes:  Dun Arisaig: 4x32 J for 4 couples in a longwise set. Dance intensity 75%. Standard - I'd say intermediate, although it does involve 8 dancers in  a St. Andrews Cross (i.e. an oblique diagonal cross, not right-angled, as in the flag of Scotland).  This cross is formed in 4 bars, rotated halfway in 4 bars, and then dissolved in 4 more bars - so this dance is not for a crowded ballroom with close lines. The figures involving the cross are not so much difficult as unusual.  In such cases less experienced dancers, with less certainty about how Scottish dances "should" go, may actually take to them more easily.

  Dedicated to Ruth and Peter Thornton, of Liskeard, Cornwall

  Recommended tunes: jigs suitable for marches, e.g. Pipe-Major Donald Maclean, played AABB.


created: 2022-03-26 19:30:40.556395+00
last_modified: 2022-03-27 15:39:03.416505+00
name: Silver Star, The
ucname: SILVER STAR
notes:
  The dance is based on an idea made by a member of the advanced class of the 1971 Auckland Labour Weekend School. The Silver Star was a luxury passenger train that ran overnight between Wellington and Auckland.


created: 2022-03-26 19:44:50.583112+00
last_modified: 2022-03-27 15:39:29.640115+00
name: Camp Akatarawa
ucname: CAMP AKATARAWA
notes:
  This dance commemorates the last time the Linden Scottish Country Dance Club and friends gathered at the Salvation Army Campsite at Akatarawa for a weekend of socializing and dancing - March 2004


created: 2022-03-26 21:19:57.709554+00
last_modified: 2022-03-27 17:15:44.237038+00
name: Isla and Johnny
ucname: ISLA AND JOHNNY
notes:
  Devised: 2018-08
  Inspired by the Island Bay and Johnsonville clubs' first combined annual dance of 2018. The Island Bay Club is now known as the Capital City but the collegiality and cooperation between the two clubs continues.


created: 2022-03-26 21:24:14.057489+00
last_modified: 2022-03-27 17:16:07.854109+00
name: Wingless Flight
ucname: WINGLESS FLIGHT
notes:
  Devised: 2015-08
  In May 2015, I slipped on an icy deck and fractured my right wrist. I am right handed. I had been invited to teach at the Queen's Birthday Weekend School that year, which I did - complete with plaster cast and sling. 
  I devised this dance to require no hands, so eye contact with your partner and other dancers is especially important.


created: 2019-07-23 09:22:30.91741+00
last_modified: 2022-03-29 09:33:14.094135+00
name: Reel for Cosmo John, A
ucname: REEL FOR COSMO JOHN
intensity_bars: 800/888/888/888
devised: 2016-01-01
notes:
  A Scottish Reel devised to raise Autism Awareness. My grandson is fascinated by all things that turn, spin or whirl. This dance contains movements to suggest coin spinning, washing machines, lorry wheels, turbine blades.... *(from the youtube video comment)*


created: 2022-04-02 18:32:57.777255+00
last_modified: 2022-04-02 19:08:40.224303+00
name: Strawberries
ucname: STRAWBERRIES
notes:
  Strawberries is one of Morgan's best known and most loved poems.
  The dance celebrates the connection between the two people. The tune ends unfinished, left behind, not unlike the discarded plates.


created: 2022-03-30 02:14:53.244225+00
last_modified: 2022-03-30 02:42:25.222543+00
name: Captain O'Neill's Strathspey
ucname: CAPTAIN ONEILLS STRATHSPEY
intensity_bars: 8888/8888/8888/8888
devised: 2022-03-30
notes:
  Captain Felix O'Neill was one of the companions of Bonnie Prince Charlie during his escape after the Battle of Culloden (1746). See <<https://www.dib.ie/biography/oneill-felix-a6922|Captain O'Neill's Biography>>  
  This dance has been devised to teach Schiehallion Reels.


created: 2022-03-27 22:56:25.880455+00
last_modified: 2022-04-02 19:00:55.38623+00
name: George Square Starlings
ucname: GEORGE SQUARE STARLINGS
notes:
  The Starlings in George Square is a three part poem that describes the plight of the starlings and their eviction from central Glasgow.
  The dance and the tune are both focussed on the first of the three parts. The starlings are in their multitudes and dance, dash and dart like a shower of arrows.


created: 2022-04-02 18:27:03.788376+00
last_modified: 2022-08-16 12:22:05.998203+00
name: Trinity, The
ucname: TRINITY
intensity_bars: 800/888/888/888
notes:
  Trio is a tremendously joyous poem. This dance maintains the clever continued use of three and emulates the joy and happiness of the poem's protagonists.
  The tune refers to the memorable line, "Orphean Sprig! Melting Baby! Warm Chihuahua!" The melody references the threesome's journey, bouncing repeatedly onward, without looking back.


created: 2022-03-27 22:45:32.492014+00
last_modified: 2022-08-17 08:20:11.959171+00
name: Off Course
ucname: OFF COURSE
intensity_bars: 800/844/844/888
notes:
  In Spacepoem 3: Off Course, Morgan uses a series of ever slightly changing images to create a sense of isolation and unease, but also hopefulness and optimism.
  The dance emphasises some of the elegant images of "turning continents" and "imaginary somersaults." The tune warps from sombre minor to hopeful major and takes inspiration from the uplifting final image: "the floating song."


created: 2022-04-02 18:38:30.577088+00
last_modified: 2022-04-02 19:15:01.300197+00
name: Mercury Men
ucname: MERCURY MEN
notes:
  A dance and tune for those native to Mercury on meeting their visitors from Earth in Morgan's poem, The First Men on Mercury.
  The dance is complex and involves dancers in the unconventional feature in Country dancing of couples changing sides as the dance progresses. This reflects the way that the men arriving on Mercury and the inhabitants adopt each other's language and become increasingly difficult to disentangle.
  The tune is named after the Alien's initial greeting and has a simple theme, which becomes gradually altered and more complicated. As Morgan concludes, "but nothing is ever the same, now is it?"


created: 2018-01-13 10:34:12.52575+00
last_modified: 2022-04-03 09:00:40.771252+00
name: Arctophiles' Jig, The
ucname: ARCTOPHILES JIG
intensity_bars: 800/888/888/888
devised: 2014-05-29
notes:
  An 'arctophile' is a person who collects or is very fond of teddy bears.

  For all those who take their teddy bears with them to summer school.

  Any suitable jig played AABB.

  Suitable recorded music: "Major Ian Stewart' recorded by Muriel Johnstone and Keith Smith on 'Cairngorms' track 12 (CD).


created: 2002-04-01 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-04-03 17:06:53.046373+00
name: Flowers of Kinburn, The
ucname: FLOWERS OF KINBURN
notes:
  The dance was originally entered with the wrong title: The Flowers of Kilburn. It should be "Kinburn" (see <<https://my.strathspey.org/dd/issue/2753/|issue 2753>>). The mistaken version is kept as a (mis)spelling alias.


created: 2022-02-24 19:08:42.153773+00
last_modified: 2022-04-08 08:35:20.483799+00
name: My Private Physiotherapist
ucname: MY PRIVATE PHYSIOTHERAPIST
intensity_bars: 800/844/844/888
devised: 2021-09-01
notes:
  When I had my two legs operated on (see Once on the Right, Once on the Left), I didn’t feel very autonomous and I was advised by the surgeon to go to a rehabilitation centre to improve quickly and to avoid home accidents which might lead to another operation!!! So I stayed several days in hospital waiting for a place in such a centre, but since there weren’t any, I finally went home on an H.A.D. (hospital at home) programme. A childhood friend of mine, Nathalie Comaille-Lenhoff, who is a physiotherapist but lives a long way from our home, managed to come and stay a few days with me right at that time. So I had my own private physiotherapist,even better than having a place in a rehabilitation centre!  
  This dance was devised for her, I really enjoyed the few days with her, and I was very grateful for her help. 1st man represents the private physiotherapist who guides the patient (1st woman) throughout the dance, except for the last 2 bars, when the patient has become autonomous and can set alone.


created: 2018-01-25 14:50:44.912154+00
last_modified: 2022-04-20 08:36:35.148572+00
name: Spring Fling in Brittany, A
ucname: SPRING FLING IN BRITTANY
devised: 2009-03-28
notes:
  Devised by Marilyn Watson on 28/03/2009 for the "<<https://scots-bonnet.fr|Saint Quay Perros Group>>" in Brittany.


created: 2015-02-13 13:33:26.770123+00
last_modified: 2022-04-06 02:17:43.553242+00
name: Heart of the Run
ucname: HEART OF THE RUN
intensity_bars: 888/484/484/888
devised: 2008-11-01
notes:
  Prior to the distillation process of malt whisky the liquid passes through the spirit safe but the first part is recycled as it is not pure enough. Only the middle bit (the Heart of the Run) goes on to be distilled and the final part is also recycled. I learned this on a visit to the Glenturret Distillery near Crieff following the Society AGM in Perth.


created: 2003-01-27 23:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-04-06 10:24:32.372028+00
name: Pool Of Connla, The
ucname: POOL OF CONNLA
intensity_bars: 8008 8888 8888 8888
notes:
  The <<https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803095632663|Oxford Reference>> says:

  > A source of inspiration and knowledge in early Irish mythology, some what comparable to the well of Mimir in Norse tradition. The location of the well changes from text to text, and the identity of the Connla for whom it is named is not clear. It may be under the sea, in Tír na nÓg [The Land of Youth], or in Tír Tairngire [The Land of Promise]. One Dindshenchas [lore of place-names] cites a Connla's Well near Tipperary.

  The dance is dedicated to <<ddp:Holden, Anna Campbell>> on account of the authority of her teaching.


created: 2012-09-02 20:49:42.190619+00
last_modified: 2022-04-26 01:52:03.309405+00
name: Dancing Lights, The
ucname: DANCING LIGHTS
intensity_bars: 800 880 888 844
devised: 1992-11-01
notes:
  Devised for and dedicated to the Yellowknife Scottish Country Dance Club on the occasion of their annual workshop, November 1992. The name was chosen after the author saw the northern lights "dancing" in the arctic sky.


created: 2022-04-09 23:30:23.871543+00
last_modified: 2022-04-11 00:08:26.508972+00
name: Experimental Reel, The
ucname: EXPERIMENTAL REEL
intensity_bars: 404/404/7777/888
notes:
  This is a weird dance, there was no special reason to devise it, but I think there should be a place for weird dances.


created: 2009-08-02 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-04-26 01:44:05.31846+00
name: Yet Another Birthday
ucname: YET ANOTHER BIRTHDAY
notes:
  Written for the author's husband, Don Nemiroff, on his birthday.

  Author's Note: »The first 8 bars I call ›The Maurice Progression‹, inspired by the dance <<ddd:Maurice>> written by Gary Thomas and published in *Dunsmuir Dances* in memory of Maurice Whitby. Maurice was very active in the earlier days of the Montréal Branch (dancing, teaching, and working on the Committee of Management) until he moved to Ontario.«

  DEVISED:2007-05


created: 2015-02-09 13:34:55.11717+00
last_modified: 2022-05-07 21:41:01.082618+00
name: Mohonk Rant, The
ucname: MOHONK RANT
devised: 2000-01-01
notes:
  According to <<https://my.strathspey.org/dd/issue/2785/|issue 2785>> this is a once and to the bottom 3 couple set dance meant to be done 6 times through. Finishing the slip step facing down with nearer hands joined is the key to starting the turns correctly.


created: 2016-10-19 21:42:59.445281+00
last_modified: 2022-04-10 17:44:28.114119+00
name: St George's Cross
ucname: SAINT GEORGES CROSS
intensity_bars: 484/888/888/888/888/648
notes:
  Contains Sash Pin Reels.

  This dance is a derivative of <<ddd:Mary MacNiven's Sash Pin#17411>> with the sash pin reels in a St George's Cross rather than a St Andrew's Cross formation.
  Also see the dance <<ddd:St Piran's Cross#17421>> by <<ddp:Reuben Freemantle>#10912>>.

  St George's Cross (or the Cross of St George) is a red cross on a white background used as a symbolic reference to Saint George. This flag was associated with St George from medieval times and has been adopted on the coat of arms and flags of several countries and cities which have St George as a patron saint, notably England. 

  (Source: <<http://www.scottish-country-dancing-dictionary.com/dance-crib/st-georges-cross.html|Scottish Country Dancing Dictionary>>)


created: 2005-11-08 23:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-04-18 08:17:45.822294+00
name: Braes of Strathlene, The
ucname: BRAES OF STRATHLENE
intensity_bars: 880/844/888/888
devised: 2004-01-01
notes:
  Devised by Bill Forbes, originally from Buckie, for Anne Taylor of Fochabers (Moray). Strathlene, on the eastern outskirts of Buckie, (Banffshire) has wonderful winding paths - a hiker’s paradise - leading away from the sea up to the golf course. The Braes cradle a fairly large holiday park overlooking the Moray Firth, famous for its sunsets - an unbelievable view. The Village of Findochty nestles to the East of the Braes and is where Anne grew up. “PS. I am not employed by the Scottish Tourist Board,” writes Bill Forbes.


created: 2005-11-08 23:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-04-17 10:47:17.108377+00
name: Compliments to Jessie Bain
ucname: COMPLIMENTS TO JESSIE BAIN
intensity_bars: 6666/8888/8040/8444
devised: 1989-01-01
notes:
  Devised by Jean Mair, for her sister, Jessie Bain.  This dance was the winner of a competition
  organised by the Banffshire Branch for their 60th Anniversary in 1989.

  Jessie Bain was Pianist at the Buckie Class, and various other classes, for many years and was a
  recipient of the Society’s Scroll in 1986.


created: 2000-02-21 23:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-04-22 02:04:16.78651+00
name: New Rigged Ship, The
ucname: NEW RIGGED SHIP
intensity_bars: 880 888 800 800 822 866
devised: 1805-01-01
notes:
  The book 9 description tells 1c to start leading up on [33].  It is then impossible to face 1cnrs in time for setting to the corners.  The Manual (in notes for dances) recommends to 1c dance up on [31-32]. They can then reach 1cnr on [34].  


created: 2022-04-18 21:24:44.128444+00
last_modified: 2022-04-18 21:24:44.128444+00
name: DU3A UR30
ucname: DU3A UR30
devised: 2022-01-01
notes:
  Written in 2022 to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the University of the Third Age (U3A) in Dundee.


created: 2011-07-12 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-04-26 01:36:53.070657+00
name: Summer Meeting, A
ucname: SUMMER MEETING
intensity_bars: 848/646/088/808
notes:
  »This dance is dedicated to TAC on their 50th Anniversary. ›A Summer Meeting‹ is named for those who meet at Summer School every year.«


created: 2022-04-22 12:12:56.335353+00
last_modified: 2022-10-01 18:13:20.769226+00
name: Robb Quint of Thousand Oaks
ucname: ROBB QUINT OF THOUSAND OAKS
intensity_bars: 800/822/844/844/808
devised: 2022-04-11
notes:
  "I composed a tune one Sunday afternoon under the Ginkgo tree on our front lawn. When Robb posted about Ginkgo trees in Southern California, I knew that tune was meant for him. The dance to accompany the tune is a tribute to Robb and our friendship of many years via email. We even communicate in Afrikaans, my first and his ??? language.", Wouter said.


created: 2022-04-22 23:20:40.949135+00
last_modified: 2022-04-22 23:30:40.224679+00
name: Ardbiel Strathspey, The
ucname: ARDBIEL STRATHSPEY
intensity_bars: 880/840/808/828
devised: 2021-10-01
notes:
  Dance devised by Peter Jamieson and Ruth MacInnes to celebrate the October 2021 house warming of “Ardbiel” a beautiful home built by Fiona MacDonald at Farley, near Beauly in Ross-Shire.  
    
  The movements in the dance represent some of the elements of the build.  
    
  _Bars 1-8_ represent the complex negotiations with Highland Council Planning and Building Control departments to gain planning permission and building warrant for the innovative design.  
    
  _Bars 9-16_ represent the extensive mixing of the natural lime based building materials.  
    
  _Bars 17-24_ represent the raising of the beautiful arches which define the shape of the house and support the roof.  
    
  _Bars 25-32_ represent the travails of finally getting the completion certificate. (We couldn’t think of any way to elegantly represent the breaking of the laptop…)  
    
  _Bars 33-40_ represent the gathering of friends for the house warming.


created: 2018-10-09 14:03:22.560623+00
last_modified: 2022-04-25 20:14:43.518319+00
name: Ultimate Brief, The
ucname: ULTIMATE BRIEF
intensity_bars: 88/88/88/88
devised: 2010-08-01
notes:
  The name of this dance comes from the fact that it may be briefed in 4 words: poussette, knot, bourrel, allemande.


created: 2018-10-02 00:50:38.268481+00
last_modified: 2022-04-25 20:18:26.015759+00
name: Blood Moon, The
ucname: BLOOD MOON
intensity_bars: 880/888/888/888
devised: 2015-09-01
notes:
  I wanted to try a 6-person reel and we had an eclipse on the moon on Sunday, September 27th – a super blood moon.


created: 2022-04-24 08:56:42.770214+00
last_modified: 2022-04-24 22:34:14.511323+00
name: Broadford Strathspey, The
ucname: BROADFORD STRATHSPEY
notes:
  Devised by Ruth MacInnes and Peter Jamieson as a simple dance to use for teaching the Broadford Bay centrepiece.


created: 2010-09-15 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-04-25 08:36:18.809598+00
name: Reel Archie, The
ucname: REEL ARCHIE
devised: 2007-03-01
notes:
  Dance composed for Archie McKechnie's 75th Birthday.  
  In some sources the dance is attributed to an Alec Taylor.


created: 2017-07-06 19:54:37.512247+00
last_modified: 2022-04-25 17:02:02.657982+00
name: 42 Years and Out
ucname: 42 YEARS AND OUT
devised: 2013-11-01
notes:
  I wrote this dance to celebrate my retirement and looking forward to no more commutes or schedules after 42 years working full time. The dance contains some of my favorite figures.


created: 2001-11-25 23:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-04-25 17:07:49.730591+00
name: Ampersand
ucname: AMPERSAND
devised: 2001-11-01
notes:
  This dance was named because the figure danced by 1M in bars 9-16 reminds me of the ampersand ('&') character.


created: 1998-10-15 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-04-25 20:11:17.399856+00
name: Ram's Horn, The
ucname: RAMS HORN
devised: 1984-01-01
notes:
  <<ddp:Iain Boyd#44>> notes in <<http://my.strathspey.org/dd/issue/1918/|issue 1918>>:

  *The dancers should not hesitate at the end of the right hands across but flow smoothly into the cast to the left.*

  *The instructions to remain in the middle with hands joined were included to ensure that the cast started from the middle and not from the sidelines.*

  *The half poussette should start from the middle rather than from a diagonal line. The diagram in the original publication clearly shows where dancers should finish the promenade movement.*

  *The dance was published before the Society decided that the half poussette should start from a diagonal line.*

  *It would be appreciated if dancers respected the devisor's original instructions.*


created: 2012-06-12 13:45:43.200702+00
last_modified: 2022-04-26 01:18:43.658079+00
name: Lord Brownlow's Strathspey
ucname: LORD BROWNLOWS STRATHSPEY
intensity_bars: 880/808/888/800
devised: 2010-01-01
notes:
  A bit of background on Lord Brownlow and Berkhamsted. He owned the Ashridge estate not far from Berkhamsted. He had a waiting room at Berkhamsted railway station where the Berkhamsted club used to meet in the 1950s before they moved to Potten End Village Hall.

  From the dance description:  
  Adelbert Wellington Cust, 3rd Earl Brownlow (1844-1921), inherited Ashridge House and the large estate and lived there with his wife Countess Adelaide Brownlow. By all accounts he also had his own Railway Waiting Room in which Berkhamsted Strathspey & Reel Club in the early days ofthe club met on Saturday nights to dance!


created: 2015-02-21 17:50:14.812461+00
last_modified: 2022-04-26 01:26:44.825731+00
name: Mr Donald Davidson
ucname: MR DONALD DAVIDSON
notes:
  Devised by Jody Williams and inscribed to Mr. Donald Davidson, a most dedicated Dancer, on his birthday.


created: 2019-03-23 10:38:06.735724+00
last_modified: 2022-04-26 01:29:25.240072+00
name: Peter Knight's Strathspey
ucname: PETER KNIGHTS STRATHSPEY
intensity_bars: 880/880/888/808
devised: 2019-01-01
notes:
  Devised to celebrate the 80th birthday of <<ddp:Knight, Peter#218>>, the editor of A Guide to Scottish Country Dancing, formerly known as Collins.   It was danced for the first time at St Columba's Church London in January 2019, as a demonstration at Peter's 80th birthday party.


created: 2020-03-24 22:07:16.238049+00
last_modified: 2022-08-22 23:33:57.446256+00
name: 18th of November, The
ucname: 18TH OF NOVEMBER
intensity_bars: 880/880/844/844
devised: 2018-11-18
notes:
  To celebrate my 70th birthday and incorporating some of my favorite figures. I love how the knot flows into the bourrel.  

  Suggested music is *Don on Yon Bank* from Heather Hills by Mara Shea and Dave Wiesler.


created: 2012-11-07 14:30:47.784627+00
last_modified: 2022-04-26 01:55:39.793465+00
name: Fleur de Lyon, La
ucname: FLEUR DE LYON
intensity_bars: 880/844/888/880
devised: 2007-04-01
notes:
  This dance was a present to Maguy from her friends Stephen, Nicole and Ken. Maguy was given it on 7 April 2007 along with a recording of her tune. Maguy was very touched by this. The dance’s name describes Maguy well as she always wore bright colours, turquoise being her favourite.
  The dance was devised to celebrate her love of life and SCD. Maguy loved slow airs and her favourite figures were the poussette all round, the bourell and tandem reels and these figures form the basis of this dance.
  Stephen danced this dance with Maguy in Lyon on 25 May 2007. Maguy took SCD to heaven in July 2007. 


created: 2000-08-30 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-04-26 09:08:19.285947+00
name: Frae A' the Airts
ucname: FRAE A THE AIRTS
intensity_bars: 880 880 888 866
devised: 1978-01-01
notes:
  The RSCDS description (presumably by the deviser) notes: "Written for the 'South Pacific Fling' dancers from Canada to dance while in New Zealand and Australia" - thereby setting the stage for the idea that the society pursued in books 36 & 37.


created: 2017-08-23 11:18:54.920874+00
last_modified: 2022-04-26 09:12:48.970689+00
name: Kirsten's Jig
ucname: KIRSTENS JIG
intensity_bars: 880/844/888/880
devised: 2015-01-01
notes:
  This dance was commissioned for Kirsten Steinbach, the committed long-time secretary of the Freiburg Scottish Country Dancers on the occasion of a special birthday. It was presented to her during a course she had organized in 2015 featuring Ron Wallace and Muriel Johnstone.


created: 1997-09-07 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-04-26 09:13:54.779519+00
name: Lake Geneva
ucname: LAKE GENEVA
intensity_bars: 848/646/808/880
notes:
  Kent Smith writes:  My use of the figure [9-20] was inspired by "The Three Rivers Reel" by Martin Mulligan.

  Both on bars 12 and 16 1W and 3M pass Lsh and face R into the next half reel.  There is a variant where they pass a tight Lsh 3/4 round each other and face L; they thus change roles in the half reel across for [12-16].  From then on the variants are identical again. Eric Ferguson, march 2015. 


created: 2016-09-09 19:47:27.138552+00
last_modified: 2022-04-26 09:21:16.251814+00
name: Peat Road, The
ucname: PEAT ROAD
intensity_bars: 880/848/884/888
devised: 2011-01-01
notes:
  The Peat Road was chosen as the 50th Tartan Ball Reel to celebrate 50 years of the Tartan Ball in the Royal York Hotel, Toronto. February 16th 2013

  The Peat Road: is a narrow, single track road that twists & turns with few passing places & is the "short cut" between Finsbay & Leverburgh in South Harris, one of the islands of the Outer Hebrides in Scotland. The Peat Road winds along the shores of Loch Langabhat & over the moor, past the peat beds, where the crofters cut & stack the peat. Once dried, it is transported to their croft houses & used as fuel.


created: 2005-04-28 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-04-26 09:29:19.411863+00
name: Sugar on Snow
ucname: SUGAR ON SNOW
intensity_bars: 808/880/844/866
devised: 2005-03-01
notes:
  I grew up in northern Vermont and still remember a trip to the sugarhouse when I was small. A treat served there was sugar on snow – freshly boiled down maple syrup poured on clean snow.


created: 2019-04-06 00:33:49.287579+00
last_modified: 2022-04-26 09:36:01.454057+00
name: Another Trip Around the Sun
ucname: ANOTHER TRIP AROUND THE SUN
intensity_bars: 8888/8888/8228/8008/8888
devised: 2019-02-01
notes:
  Devised by Ray McEward with valued assistance of Marjorie McLaughlin and Ward Fleri, Feb 2019   

  Tunes chosen by Andy Imbrie.  

  This dance is dedicated to Ms. Jeanne V. Moody on the occasion of her 40th birthday. The best is yet come! May there be many more trips around the sun for you.

  The San Diego 45th Anniversary book (2020) gives the title as "Another Trip Around the Sun" but the earlier online source URL (2019) has "'round" instead of "Around". This is added as a spelling alias.


created: 2002-11-24 23:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-04-26 09:44:51.365731+00
name: Dancing Thistles
ucname: DANCING THISTLES
intensity_bars: 8686/8888/8888/8888
devised: 2002-01-01
notes:
  Devised in honour of the 30th Anniversary of the Pretoria Branch, 2002.  The club emblem is the Dancing Thistle.  Suggested level: Advanced.


created: 2018-12-06 13:03:49.276864+00
last_modified: 2022-04-26 14:53:41.464+00
name: Glen Pavilion, The
ucname: GLEN PAVILION
intensity_bars: 8888/8448/8888/8008
devised: 2017-01-01
notes:
  The Glen Pavilion in Pittencrieff Park is where the Branch holds its annual Ball.  

  The dance was devised as an elegant and sociable dance, with dancers meeting
  and giving hands to many other dancers.  


created: 2018-08-23 10:33:13.305019+00
last_modified: 2022-04-26 15:03:48.523664+00
name: Martin's Farewell
ucname: MARTINS FAREWELL
intensity_bars: 8020/8888/8888/8888
devised: 2018-01-01
notes:
  A memorial dance for Martin Norgate who not only danced and taught in Cumbria but danced with Schiehallion for many years.


created: 2017-10-27 23:25:14.106037+00
last_modified: 2022-04-26 15:09:22.241629+00
name: Mentors, The
ucname: MENTORS
intensity_bars: 4444/4444/8080/8080/0808/0808/8888/8888/8888/8888
devised: 2015-05-01
notes:
  This dance was devised for David and Avril Quarrie, two wonderful teachers and mentors who always know how to help dancers learn and improve, and how to make them feel they belong.


created: 2019-06-29 13:36:50.47353+00
last_modified: 2022-04-26 19:22:52.169535+00
name: Orillia's Own
ucname: ORILLIAS OWN
intensity_bars: 8888/8008/8888/8888
devised: 2017-07-01
notes:
  Gordon Lightfoot sang Farewell to Nova Scotia on a pirate album and I loved the tune; it is the 4th tune on this track.
    	


created: 2017-11-21 18:05:43.494166+00
last_modified: 2022-09-27 23:05:30.190377+00
name: From Finland to Bavaria
ucname: FROM FINLAND TO BAVARIA
notes:
  This dance was devised on the occasion of the wedding of Ramona and Matthias. The chase and the circle symbolize the wedding rings


created: 2016-09-14 23:08:39.114493+00
last_modified: 2022-04-26 19:27:34.023406+00
name: Pitlochry Lassies
ucname: PITLOCHRY LASSIES
intensity_bars: 8888/8888/8008/8888
devised: 2009-10-01
notes:
  The dance was devised by Ruth Taylor from Kingston, Ontario to accompany the tune "Ruth Frae Pitlochry" written for her by Muriel Johnstone. 

  "The dance is dedicated to all the Scottish Country Dancing Lassies of Pitlochry - past, present, future - especially my mother, Lillie Donald, and my dear friend, Ruth Cunnison, the other 'Ruth frae Pitlochry'".

  The dance had been nominated for RSCDS Book 48.


created: 2011-07-11 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-04-26 19:32:40.499494+00
name: Sunshine Sally
ucname: SUNSHINE SALLY
intensity_bars: 8888 8888 8888 8088
devised: 2007-03-01
notes:
  Devised March 2007, to honour long-time dancer and Branch stalwart, Sally Freedman. The title was chosen as Sally has a collection of 'Suns' in her house. Moreover Sally always has warm welcome for new people and new ideas.


created: 2020-06-16 20:31:05.920526+00
last_modified: 2022-07-11 12:05:11.233075+00
name: Alison Hogg Strathspey
ucname: ALISON HOGG STRATHSPEY
intensity_bars: 8888/8080/8044/8888
notes:
  This dance has been devised for Alison Hogg, who lives in Salisbury. She requested a strathspey containing a bourrel.


created: 2006-10-22 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-04-27 11:31:17.612882+00
name: Wee Birl, A
ucname: WEE BIRL
intensity_bars: 880/880/844/888
devised: 2000-01-01
notes:
  Devised in response to a request by the Brockville Scottish Country Dancers for a new dance to include in the Brockville Christmas 2000 Social program.


created: 2015-08-26 15:18:54.701205+00
last_modified: 2022-04-28 03:47:08.488547+00
name: Queen of Victoria
ucname: QUEEN OF VICTORIA
intensity_bars: 880/844/844/866
notes:
  The birl, a progression introduced in 1976 by Bob Campbell of Oakville in his dance, <<ddd:Campsie Glen#986>>, is also referred to as the 'bourrel',  
  For many years, June Shore lived with her husband, Sam, on Victoria Avenue in Hamilton. There, she
  undoubtably reigned as Queen. with Sam as her consort. The figures of the dance exemplify her courtly
  and regal manner.


created: 2022-04-27 22:52:18.980301+00
last_modified: 2022-05-04 12:20:18.89412+00
name: Barolo Palace Tower
ucname: BAROLO PALACE TOWER
devised: 2020-03-01
notes:
  Barolo Palace is a beautiful building in Buenos Aires. It was a challenge for me as I do not like heights. However, I was coaxed unwillingly to the top up winding, narrow stairs and had to sit precariously on a narrow ledge at the top of a lighthouse structure.  
  The view of the city was amazing.  
  An unforgettable afternoon. 


created: 2022-04-27 21:55:57.988434+00
last_modified: 2022-05-05 09:10:56.092221+00
name: Siete Colores
ucname: SIETE COLORES
intensity_bars: 4884/8888/8008/8688
devised: 2020-05-01
notes:
  The Siete Colores is a hill of 7 colours at Purmamarca. Each rock colour is said to have formed during different time periods. The patterns in this dance depict the layers of rocks.


created: 2022-04-30 18:55:21.880308+00
last_modified: 2022-04-30 19:14:04.654805+00
name: Do What I Mean, Not What I Say!
ucname: DO WHAT I MEAN NOT WHAT I SAY
devised: 2022-03-01
notes:
  A dance in memory of Ron Nedderman of Cambridge, reflecting on one of his favourite sayings when teaching the Foss and Drewry class.

  The dance consists of two 32 bar parts. In the the first "as I say" version all three couples end on opposite sides after the first 8 bars and dance bars 9-24 on opposite sides whereas in the second "as I mean" version they end on own sides on bar 8.

  This could be considered as a 4x64 bar dance but the deviser prefers it as 8x32 as it would be possible for sets to dance just the "right" second part.


created: 1998-01-11 23:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-04-30 19:23:14.750325+00
name: Devorgilla's Delight
ucname: DEVORGILLAS DELIGHT
intensity_bars: 848/484/844/880
devised: 1977-01-01
notes:
  Incribed "for Lena Barclay of Aberdeen, formerly of Dumfries".

  From Drewry's notes: Devorgilla was the wife of John de Balliol, the founder of Balliol College, Oxford. She built the old footbridge across the Nith in Dumfries and, after her husband's death, she founded Sweetheart Abbey.


created: 2022-05-04 00:48:04.339197+00
last_modified: 2022-09-06 10:43:53.313694+00
name: Mei schazzal is no füü zu glaa
ucname: MEI SCHAZZAL IS NO FUU ZU GLAA
devised: 2022-01-25
notes:
  The dance title means "My love, she’s but a Lassie yet" in Viennese dialect.  

  From the dance description: Inspired by Marian Anderson’s version of the music on her CD "Robert Burns Dances" during preparations for an online Burns Night; inscribed to Joanna Janiska who shared her book of Burns poems in Viennese and researched the title.


created: 2003-12-04 23:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-05-06 01:40:23.429265+00
name: Daisy Chain, The
ucname: DAISY CHAIN
intensity_bars: 888/880/880/844
devised: 1998-01-01
notes:
  Information from the original description:
  The dance was devised in June 1998 as a teaching dance to introduce 'ladies' chain'. Recommended music is a strong strathspey such as "Bonnie Flowers o'er the Muir" with a suitable recording being by the Berkeley Players "None So Pretty".
  Daisy Macdonald Fanning is the niece of Rod Downey. The dance celebrates her birth.  

  Originally "Bonnie Flowers O'er the Muir" was assigned as tune for the dance, which is the name of the suitable recording. The lead tune of this recording, however, has a different name. Rod Downey has realized this and had the tune corrected to "Barbara Rae", the correct lead tune of the recording "Bonnie Flowers O'er the Muir".


created: 1997-09-02 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-05-07 20:43:49.900864+00
name: Faa Patteran, The
ucname: FAA PATTERAN
notes:
  The "Faa" of the title is thought to refer to John Faa, king of the Gypsies at the time of James V of Scotland, while "Patteran" means signs used by Roma people. See <<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Faa>>.


created: 2015-02-09 13:20:09.929845+00
last_modified: 2022-05-07 21:26:29.655254+00
name: Mohonk Welcome, The
ucname: MOHONK WELCOME
devised: 2000-01-01
notes:
  According to <<https://my.strathspey.org/dd/issue/2783/|Issue 2783>> Bob Houghton prefers recordings from "Don Bartlett and the Scotians Play Favourites".


created: 2022-04-27 21:21:29.295864+00
last_modified: 2022-06-26 16:52:09.497406+00
name: Road to Cafayate, The
ucname: ROAD TO CAFAYATE
intensity_bars: 888/800/844/844
devised: 2020-04-01
notes:
  I went on a day trip to Cafayate from Salta. The journey followed many winding roads and this dance reflects the bends and turns in the road. It wound its way through many multi-colored rocks with names like: the frog, castle, monk, Titanic sinking and the amphitheatre.  
  This amazing journey travelled through mountains and then desert. It ended in the beautiful town of Cafayate. It is a centre of wine production and is 1,683 metres above sea level. 


created: 2018-09-15 23:10:58.735559+00
last_modified: 2022-05-08 07:33:30.691206+00
name: Slante, Austro-Alba
ucname: SLANTE AUSTROALBA
intensity_bars: 080/484/484/448
devised: 1998-01-01
notes:
  Crib by the devisers is available at <<https://www.scottish-country-dancing-dictionary.com/dance-crib/slante-austro-alba.html>>.

  This dance was first published in <<ddpub:#411>> under the name "Tune the Fiddles" but was later renamed "Slante, Austro-Alba" (and slightly revised).


created: 2022-05-08 23:19:18.463978+00
last_modified: 2022-05-09 07:06:57.632566+00
name: Fifty Years Young... et alors ?
ucname: FIFTY YEARS YOUNG ET ALORS
intensity_bars: 800/822/822/808
notes:
  This dance was created for Sophie Marchand, the Scottish Country Dance teacher and president of the Méaudre Reel, on the occasion of her 50th birthday. Her adult SCD students surprised her with a first demo of this dance on April 4, 2022. This was an opportunity to thank her for her commitment to teaching SCD in the Vercors for more than 15 years. Through her dynamism and with a lot of patience, she has indeed brought the taste and the pleasure of dancing to dozens and dozens of students, young and old!


created: 2011-07-04 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-05-09 11:40:51.884563+00
name: Honeymoon in Scotland
ucname: HONEYMOON IN SCOTLAND
intensity_bars: 8888/8666/8888/8888
devised: 1986-01-01
notes:
  The dedication reads: "This dance is dedicated to Mr. Minoru Okumura and Mrs. Shoko Okumura on their honeymoon trip to St. Andrews and other places of Scotland."

  STRATHSPEY Bar 1-8 (Heart shape): They grew up without knowing each other. One day they met and
  fell in love. Bar 9-16: Wedding ceremony. REEL Bar 1-4: Honeymoon trip to Scotland. Bar 5-16: Touring around and dancing in Scotland.


created: 2015-02-09 13:26:17.954388+00
last_modified: 2022-05-09 11:56:12.154954+00
name: Warm Up Dance, A
ucname: WARM UP DANCE
devised: 2000-01-01
notes:
  This is a 1x32 bar Jig used solely to teach slip step. Each couple slips down and back to place before both couples circle round and back.


created: 2022-05-09 17:30:18.747431+00
last_modified: 2022-05-09 17:39:07.928353+00
name: Cober Hill Caper
ucname: COBER HILL CAPER
intensity_bars: 8800/8844/8088/8008
devised: 2019-05-01
notes:
  Inspired by the London Gay Gordons’ residential week at Cober Hill Hall, May 2019.

  Although intended as a reel this dance may also be done (or practised) in strathspey time if preferred.


created: 2022-05-09 14:48:15.913534+00
last_modified: 2022-05-09 14:48:15.913534+00
name: Betsy Miller's Hornpipe
ucname: BETSY MILLERS HORNPIPE
devised: 1991-01-01
notes:
  The notes say this dance commemorates "Elizabeth (Betsy) Miller (1792–1864) from Saltcoats, Ayrshire, a Scottish merchant who was the first woman to be given a sea captain’s licence by the Board of Trade, making her the first female sea captain in Great Britain"


created: 2022-05-09 14:57:12.89275+00
last_modified: 2022-05-09 14:57:12.89275+00
name: James Wilson's Reel
ucname: JAMES WILSONS REEL
devised: 1990-01-01
notes:
  The notes say this dance commemorates "James Wilson (1742–1798) the Fife-born lawyer and political theorist who signed the Declaration of Independence in 1776 then helped draft the US Constitution, which he also signed in 1787, making him one of the founding fathers of the United States"


created: 2022-04-15 15:56:58.844411+00
last_modified: 2022-12-04 18:00:05.53891+00
name: Seven Up
ucname: SEVEN UP
devised: 2022-01-01
notes:
  A set of 7 dancers, 2 lines of 3 on the sides & with number 7 in the middle facing up  

  ……1…2…3  
  Top ....7....  
  ……6…5…4  

  The progression is 2,3,6,7,4,5,1.


created: 1998-01-05 23:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-05-12 15:10:35.055487+00
name: Auckland Airs
ucname: AUCKLAND AIRS
intensity_bars: 888/808/844/888
notes:
  "Inscribed  to Rhoda Tanner and the members of the Auckland Region, New Zealand Branch, on the occasion of their 1986 Summer School."


created: 2002-09-25 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-05-14 16:54:41.565058+00
name: Rosewood JEM, The
ucname: ROSEWOOD JEM
notes:
  Note that the instructions for this dance were changed slightly after its first publication in <<ddpub:Gatineau Gathering, A#794>> (handing for some turns and the final few bars for 1st couple). The deviser's preferred version is demonstrated in <<https://my.strathspey.org/dd/dancevideo/8704/|Video 1>>.


created: 2022-04-15 15:56:22.213907+00
last_modified: 2022-06-13 23:22:33.111862+00
name: Five Times Twirl
ucname: FIVE TIMES TWIRL
devised: 2022-01-01
notes:
  Start in W shape with dancers 2 & 4 facing gaps in line of dancers 1, 3 & 5

  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;1…3…5  
  Top  
  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;...2…4…  


created: 2022-05-15 21:04:33.155239+00
last_modified: 2022-05-15 21:04:33.155239+00
name: Elizabeth Garrett Anderson's Strathspey
ucname: ELIZABETH GARRETT ANDERSONS STRATHSPEY
devised: 1989-01-01
notes:
  The notes say this commemorates "Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (1836–1917), physician and suffragist, the first woman to qualify as a physician and surgeon and become the first female mayor in Britain"


created: 2022-05-14 18:33:39.206426+00
last_modified: 2022-05-15 23:59:45.515326+00
name: Bonnie Benbecula
ucname: BONNIE BENBECULA
intensity_bars: 888/808/088/888
devised: 2091-01-01
notes:
  The inscription is "In memory of Sheila Jupp, who spent her childhood on this Hebridean island".

  The publication gives the tune as "Crawhillock". It is assumed to be intended as "Crowhillock".


created: 2013-02-04 16:31:51.507802+00
last_modified: 2022-05-17 22:46:58.001523+00
name: Foursome and Half Reel of Tulloch (trad. version), The
ucname: FOURSOME AND HALF REEL OF TULLOCH TRAD VERSION
notes:
  There are various versions of this dance in circulation, which tend to differ in the length of the strathspey and the reel parts. 

  See:

  <<ddd:Foursome and Half Reel of Tulloch, The  #7542>>. (32 S + 32 R + 64 R)

  <<ddd:Foursome Reel  and Half Reel of Tulloch, The#20860>> (32 S + 64 R)

  and  <<https://my.strathspey.org/dd/issue/2759/|issue 2759>>.


created: 2022-03-26 20:02:45.881426+00
last_modified: 2022-05-17 07:18:59.673925+00
name: Bucket Tree, The
ucname: BUCKET TREE
notes:
  Devised: 1998-05
  Presented to the members of the Tawa Club to celebrate the Club's 50th Anniversary in 2008. The "bucket tree" is a large macrocarpa trimmed to the shape of an upturned bucket and is a Tawa landmark near the Willowbank Reserve. The Tawa Club includes a representation of the tree in its club badge.

  NB the suggested recording does not include the recommended tune (see <<https://my.strathspey.org/dd/issue/2797/|issue 2797>> for background details).


created: 2022-05-21 09:42:07.549703+00
last_modified: 2022-12-10 19:10:57.196447+00
name: Cranberry Tartelette, The
ucname: CRANBERRY TARTELETTE
notes:
  Luitgard Merkens (SCD Group Münster/Germany) came up with this adaptation of <<ddd:Cranberry Tart, The#9157>> by <<ddp:Glasspool, Terry#2677>> for a 3 couple set, inverting the set each time. After the first turn the progression is 2,1,3. The next turn has the original 3rd couple as dancing couple with 3rd woman starting, followed 2 bars later by her partner. This variation seems sufficiently popular to have its own dance entry.

  See <<https://www.scdmuenster.de/2018/08/22/m%C3%BCnsteraner-variationen-cranberry-pie-und-tartelette/>> (German) for more details.


created: 2000-02-21 23:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-05-17 22:44:44.620758+00
name: Foursome and Half Reel of Tulloch
ucname: FOURSOME AND HALF REEL OF TULLOCH
notes:
  Note that there are various versions of this dance in circulation, which tend to differ in the length of the strathspey and the reel parts. 

  See also:

  <<ddd:Foursome Reel  and Half Reel of Tulloch(trad. version), The#14713>> (48 R + 88 R)

  <<ddd:Foursome Reel  and Half Reel of Tulloch, The#20860>> (32 S + 64 R)

  and  <<https://my.strathspey.org/dd/issue/2759/|issue 2759>>.


created: 2021-07-14 08:16:11.431621+00
last_modified: 2022-05-21 23:24:43.851896+00
name: Nightingale Floor, The
ucname: NIGHTINGALE FLOOR
intensity_bars: 80808/88888/08088/42442
devised: 2012-03-01
notes:
  Inscribed "For Patsy & Ian Marks on their return from a Rotary trip to Japan, March 2012."

  The dance notes explain that "Centuries ago, floors in the hallways & corridors of Japanese temples & palaces were designed to make a 'chirping' sound when walked on.  This was a security device – an early, 'early warning system'.  Dry boards creak naturally under pressure, but these floors were created so that the flooring nails would rub against a jacket or clamp (usually leather), causing birdlike noises - hence 'nightingale' floors ('uguisubari'). This ensured that no one could sneak through the corridors undetected. The most famous example is in Nijo Castle, Kyoto, Japan."


created: 1998-10-20 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-05-21 08:17:15.191098+00
name: Mary Stewart Strathspey
ucname: MARY STEWART STRATHSPEY
devised: 1970-01-01
notes:
  This dance is published with the name "Mary Stewart Strathspey" in <<ddpub:Dances with a Difference#394>> but as "Mary Stewart's Strathspey" in the <<ddpub:#678|Los Angeles 25th Anniversary Book>>.


created: 2002-09-26 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-05-31 11:32:12.461073+00
name: Adelaide Strathspey, The
ucname: ADELAIDE STRATHSPEY
intensity_bars: 8000/8800/8044/8000
notes:
  This simple dance was devised for a St Valentine's Day demonstration. (from the publication)

  Music used is as for The Belle of Bon Accord on the "See You Jimmy'' tape. (from the publication)


created: 2003-09-22 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-05-22 09:08:06.58526+00
name: Jacobite, The
ucname: JACOBITE
intensity_bars: 800/844/888/888
devised: 2003-04-01
notes:
  During our trip to Scotland in August of 2001, we took the steam train from Fort William to Mallaig – the Jacobite. The figure in bars 19-24 reminds me of a train.

  Crib author's note: The online instructions say that [25-32] has mirror reels, but they are opposing reels (in 2pl 1M starts down, 1W starts up); in addition each of the end couples makes one crossing.


created: 2005-11-08 23:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-05-22 22:06:15.359302+00
name: Alison's Strathspey
ucname: ALISONS STRATHSPEY
intensity_bars: 844/088/448/888
notes:
  The original text says:  Progressive 3 Cpl. dance in a 4 Cpl. Longwise Set.  <...> Can also be danced as a 3 couple dance with 3rd & 1st Cpl. circling to the Lt in bars 21 to 24, 3rd Cpl. opening out for the 6 hands round in bars 25 to 32.

  The E-crib gives the 3C/4C version as the default, whereas MiniCrib has the 3C set version. The diagram shows both.


created: 2022-04-27 21:34:25.280896+00
last_modified: 2022-05-23 17:48:37.743696+00
name: Insurance Man from BA, The
ucname: INSURANCE MAN FROM BA
intensity_bars: 844/888/844/866
devised: 2020-03-01
notes:
  The dedication reads "This dance is written for a wonderful Argentine friend, tourist guide, host, dancer and gentleman. He made my visit to Argentina in 2019 the most memorable time in my life."


created: 1997-12-27 23:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-05-24 21:34:10.691876+00
name: Waratah Weaver, The
ucname: WARATAH WEAVER
notes:
  Can be danced in a 3C, 4C or 5C set.

  Another existing variation is 8x32 for 3C in a 4C set with the three couples all dancing reels instead of solo figures of 8.


created: 2022-05-24 21:17:58.34246+00
last_modified: 2022-05-24 22:01:51.919875+00
name: Harry Gordon
ucname: HARRY GORDON
notes:
  A performance dance with no progression. Written in memory of the deviser's father, Harry Gordon Friedman.

  Source: PDF linked from <<https://rscds-twincities.org/performance-repertoire/>>.


created: 2022-05-26 17:08:41.455379+00
last_modified: 2022-05-26 21:44:59.555211+00
name: Welcome to Your Feet Again
ucname: WELCOME TO YOUR FEET AGAIN
notes:
  Repeat from new places, but in the second round, for Bars 9–14, Partner 2 leads the chase down behind their own sides to dance below 3s, and casts up behind their opposite side to 2nd place, while Partner 1 dances up the middle to 2nd place opposite side.

  Couples decide independently who will be Partner 1 and Partner 2.

  On the final two bars of the second round, 1s can cross down to the bottom of the set while 3s can dance up a place to begin the next round.

  This dance was devised for a first class back after a hiatus due to Covid and avoids taking hands. If dancers are now comfortable taking hands in setting or changing places, they may! If dancers prefer not to take hands and instead hold champagne glasses, they may clink between the advance and the retire!


created: 2019-10-24 16:37:15.048055+00
last_modified: 2022-05-27 11:32:03.661219+00
name: Darvel Weaver, The
ucname: DARVEL WEAVER
intensity_bars: 800/888/888/888
devised: 2000-01-01
notes:
  In honour of James Gilchrist, weaver and tenter, of Darvel, Ayrshire and dedicated to his daughter and son-in-law, Cath and Alec Campbell


created: 2011-08-25 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-05-29 10:33:39.341558+00
name: Strathpsey Advancement Party of Scotland Strathspey, The
ucname: STRATHPSEY ADVANCEMENT PARTY OF SCOTLAND STRATHSPEY
notes:
  The notes say "This dance is dedicated to the members of the StrAthPSey Advancement Party of Scotland (SAPS). The dance is short because the title is long. PS There are only deliberate spelling mistakes on this page!"

  So the "Strathpsey" in the title is correct (see <<https://my.strathspey.org/dd/issue/2800/|issue 2800>>).


created: 2022-01-13 09:56:10.101839+00
last_modified: 2022-05-29 11:46:16.221175+00
name: Platinum Jubilee, The
ucname: PLATINUM JUBILEE
intensity_bars: 800/888/888/800
devised: 2022-01-01
notes:
  In the year 2022, HM The Queen, Patron of the RSCDS, celebrates her Platinum Jubilee. And for the
  Berkhamsted Strathspey and Reel Club it is its platinum year too. Coming in threes, Jeremy and Anne
  Newton past-president (1983-1985) and current president respectively, also share in the celebrations with
  their 70th birthdays in May; this dance commemorates this remarkable year.  

  _Teaching notes_:  
  Bars 1-2 1st couple dancing down to meet use long steps to reach the bottom of the set.  
  Bars 7-8 1st couple curve into second place to flow into six hands round halfway.  
  Bars 13-16 2nd and 3rd couples change direction on bar 13 to dance left hands across.  
  Similarly,  
  Bars 21-24 2nd and 3rd couples change direction on bar 21 to dance right hands across.  
  Bar 32 1st couple quarter turn about to face in ie the short way.  
  For information, progression order: 1/2/3, 2/3/1, 3/2/1, 1/2/3.  

  Information about the tunes is given in <<https://my.strathspey.org/dd/issue/2799/|issue 2799>>.


created: 2002-09-26 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-05-31 11:33:44.200867+00
name: All In
ucname: ALL IN
intensity_bars: 8888 8888 8888 8888
notes:
  This dance is titled "All In" because it is a favourite saying for dancers, and because everyone is dancing, and also when you stop, you are "all in". [from the publication]


created: 2022-06-07 22:17:47.22704+00
last_modified: 2023-02-25 17:59:34.545975+00
name: Frisky Ten Years
ucname: FRISKY TEN YEARS
devised: 2016-09-01
notes:
  Devised for the 10th anniversary of 'The Frisky", a dancing group based in Tokyo.

  According to the deviser, right hand turns by 2C and 3C on bars 21-24 may be omitted.


created: 2022-05-31 20:01:55.512101+00
last_modified: 2022-05-31 20:57:06.119148+00
name: Sightlines from Chernex
ucname: SIGHTLINES FROM CHERNEX
intensity_bars: 8484/8888/8888/8888
devised: 2020-02-01
notes:
  This dance is for Jim and Aline Cook who kindly invited me for supper in their former holiday home in the village of Chernex. This was in the hills above Montreux from where they had a lovely view over the eastern end of Lake Geneva and the surrounding mountains. Chernex, which is pronounced like “Shairnay”, is on the Montreux Oberland Bernois or “GoldenPass” railway line. This climbs and winds its narrow gauge way up from Montreux, through the gorgeous scenery of the Bernese Oberland, to the rail and river junction at Zweisimmen. The reels, snake pass and tournée may be taken to illustrate the loopy nature of the line.


created: 2022-06-07 20:37:59.022278+00
last_modified: 2022-06-07 21:36:19.298336+00
name: Tatiana's Dream
ucname: TATIANAS DREAM
intensity_bars: 844/888/488/880
notes:
  Tatiana is a character in Alexander Pushkin's novel Eugene Onegin who dreams that a bear helps her cross a raging torrent.


created: 2022-06-07 20:31:09.14674+00
last_modified: 2022-06-23 08:40:05.343259+00
name: Celebrate Ten and Twenty Years
ucname: CELEBRATE TEN AND TWENTY YEARS
intensity_bars: 888/880/800/844
devised: 2020-01-01
notes:
  This dance was written to celebrate two dancing groups which the deviser established. One group is 'Clara' for the 20th anniversary, the other is 'Saltire' for the 10 anniversary.


created: 2014-10-30 07:18:19.837985+00
last_modified: 2022-06-09 16:10:02.725788+00
name: Malcolm's Shoes
ucname: MALCOLMS SHOES
devised: 2014-05-04
notes:
  Devised 4 May 2014, by Sergey Kargapoltsev (robroyway [at] gmail.com). The little story that happened in Vladimir city (Russia) on Spring School with Malcolm Brown when he lost his shoes.


created: 2022-06-10 04:19:20.561452+00
last_modified: 2022-06-10 05:03:45.966905+00
name: Thank You Linda Henderson
ucname: THANK YOU LINDA HENDERSON
intensity_bars: 880/888/888/888
devised: 2022-04-01
notes:
  "I had forgotten all about the pinwheel progression until Linda Henderson asked me about it.  So, of course, I had to write a new dance with it, in quick time this time." Holly said.


created: 2011-08-24 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-06-12 11:05:18.625447+00
name: Docent's Tour, The
ucname: DOCENTS TOUR
intensity_bars: 800/844/844/866
devised: 2006-12-28
notes:
  This dance was devised for Sid Kass to celebrate his 75th birthday, December 31, 2006. The dance was presented at the San Francisco Class on Thursday December 28, 2006 as a surprise to Sid. The title of the dance refers to Sid's volunteer work as a docent at two local museums.- TW


created: 2022-06-07 20:59:32.647862+00
last_modified: 2022-06-19 12:11:29.918379+00
name: Happy Dancing
ucname: HAPPY DANCING
intensity_bars: 800/888/888/888
devised: 2020-06-01
notes:
  This dance was devised with delight to meet and dance together again after long adjournment by COVID-19 and for enjoying without hands as much as possible.


created: 2022-06-08 09:35:02.647098+00
last_modified: 2022-06-19 13:12:16.107462+00
name: Yamashita Park
ucname: YAMASHITA PARK
intensity_bars: 800/844/888/888
devised: 2020-03-01
notes:
  Yamashita Park in Yokohama city is one of the most beautiful and famous parks facing Tokyo Bay.

  1st couple dance a floor pattern of two interlocking hearts during bars 9-16.


created: 2022-05-31 19:19:53.080336+00
last_modified: 2023-01-20 22:54:32.067213+00
name: Cliffs of Moher, The
ucname: CLIFFS OF MOHER
intensity_bars: 844/822/866/866
devised: 2022-02-01
notes:
  This dance is for Steve Oakes, an enthusiastic member of the Gay Gordons group in London. Early in 2022 he had to spend a few months away helping to make a film set near the Cliffs of Moher in county Clare, Ireland. This was written to entice him back. Steve's pas de basque style is quite energetic and he likes twirls and wide loops. All those are exhibited here.

  There is a short video with a good view of the cliffs at <<https://youtu.be/XtYH2as-r5Y>>.


created: 2002-09-26 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-10-14 11:31:04.507851+00
name: Tea Break
ucname: TEA BREAK
notes:
  This dance was devised during a tea break, which is considered essential at our Friday night dancing class. This class enjoys a challenge. [from the publication]

  In the dance description Julie Pastok suggests "The Wapenshaw" on Highlander Music Volume 6 CD by Drummond Cook's Scottish Country Dance Band as suitable recording.


created: 1997-04-03 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-06-12 11:36:17.425714+00
name: Brimmond
ucname: BRIMMOND
devised: 1986-01-01
notes:
  The inscription reads "for Simon Wood of Ellon who played for the first performance of this dance Simon is a helicopter pilot - hence the name of the progression".

  So this is the first dance with the Set and Rotate figure.

  Brimmond is a hill overlooking Aberdeen.


created: 1997-08-31 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-06-18 09:08:24.045439+00
name: Cape Cod Reel, The
ucname: CAPE COD REEL
intensity_bars: 888/888/866/888
notes:
  Description
  -----------

  1- 8::
    1s and 3s advance 2 steps diagonally to centre. Then turn left 90 degrees and take 2 steps out to the corner and stay facing out. Meanwhile 2’s pull their right shoulder back and cast, man up, lady down to end in the middle of the set at top and bottom. 2s set facing each other whilst 1s and 3s set turning right to face each other. All 3 couples set once more whilst facing each other. 
  9-16::
     Repeat bars 1 to 8. i.e. 1s and 3s in diagonally whilst 2nd man casts down the ladies side and 2nd lady casts up the men’s side. 2s set facing each other whilst 1s and 3s set turning to face each other. All 3 couples set once more. (Everyone is now on the opposite side and the set is upside down.) 
  17-20::
     3s at the top, cast to the bottom on the wrong side, followed by 2s who end up in 2nd place. Whilst 1s cross to the top, lady crossing in front of her partner. 
  21-22::
    1s and 2s right hands across for 2 steps. 1st lady finish facing out the men’s side with her partner behind. 
  23-24::
     1s and 3s left hands across for 2 steps. (1s are now at the bottom and everybody is back on the correct side) 
  25-32::
     All 3 couples circle left and back   
  Repeat twice in new positions.

  The dance was devised by Mark Dungey, Sue Prout, Margaret Miles (all of the FalmouthWhite Heather Club) and Margaret Hoare, on a trip to Falmouth Massachusetts (On the Cape Cod Peninsula)


created: 2022-06-23 19:05:31.108458+00
last_modified: 2022-06-23 21:25:24.448124+00
name: Piwakawaka, The
ucname: PIWAKAWAKA
devised: 2022-05-13
notes:
  Fomr the notes: The piwakawaka is a New Zealand fantail. It is known for its friendly "cheet cheet" call and energetic flying; dancers will need some energetic dancing and to be on their game for this dance.


created: 2022-06-25 15:26:29.010226+00
last_modified: 2022-10-25 19:43:16.300792+00
name: Shadows
ucname: SHADOWS
notes:
  The Shadow Progression needs careful timing and is quite slow. 
  1st man and 2nd woman simply shadow 1st woman and 2nd man in the progression. The idea came to me one very hot, sunny day while watching dancers outside dancing on grass and casting shadows.


created: 2022-06-25 13:36:14.001344+00
last_modified: 2022-06-26 22:53:09.564054+00
name: Newcastle's 70th Celebration
ucname: NEWCASTLES 70TH CELEBRATION
notes:
  Dance devised in 2019 to celebrate Newcastle and District Branch's 70th Anniversary in 2020
  (The first 8 bars show the 7 and 0 shapes)


created: 2022-06-25 14:18:28.501803+00
last_modified: 2022-10-25 20:05:57.994665+00
name: Sheila of Morpeth
ucname: SHEILA OF MORPETH
notes:
  Dance written by Dr. Peter Avery (Branch Chairman) as a tribute to the tremendous contribution made by Sheila Trafford to Scottish dancing in the North East of England, both as a teacher and an organiser.


created: 2022-06-25 15:17:31.020661+00
last_modified: 2022-08-12 09:40:07.561827+00
name: Golden Wishes
ucname: GOLDEN WISHES
intensity_bars: 84048/88088/84884/88888
notes:
  Dance written for Stocksfield Scottish Country Dance Club's 50th Anniversary in July 2016. When asked to write this dance, I was requested to make it a challenge! I hope it fits the bill! Enjoy.


created: 2022-06-25 15:07:23.479575+00
last_modified: 2022-10-25 20:02:44.428149+00
name: Cathie Smith's Reel
ucname: CATHIE SMITHS REEL
notes:
  Dance devised in memory of Cathie Smith who died in December 2016. Cathie was a member of the Newcastle & District Branch of the RSCDS for many years and she was a founder member of Mike Barlow's Ponteland evening class.
  She was a very friendly lady and supported all local events. She is greatly missed by all her friends and those who knew her.


created: 2022-06-25 14:09:51.741154+00
last_modified: 2022-10-25 20:07:08.867302+00
name: Freda's Frolic
ucname: FREDAS FROLIC
notes:
  This dance was written for Freda Phillipson. Freda has been a loyal member of our Branch and Life member of the RSCDS for 47 years. During this time she has seved as a committee member, teacher, pianist and musical composer as well as a keen dancer. Over these years, Freda has enjoyed lots of trips to places all over Scotland including the Scottish Islands (These trips are known as Freda's Frolics!)


created: 2022-06-25 14:56:06.60418+00
last_modified: 2022-08-05 17:35:45.765022+00
name: Jesmond Saunter
ucname: JESMOND SAUNTER
notes:
  Jesmond Dene is a pleasant, green, leafy area with footpaths along and near the River Ouse in a part of Jesmond on the outskirts of Newcastle.


created: 2022-06-29 18:24:41.153402+00
last_modified: 2022-06-29 18:24:41.153402+00
name: Bees Are Back!
ucname: BEES ARE BACK
devised: 2022-03-01
notes:
  This dance should rightly be named 'Bees Are Still Here!'' since this is the first year we have had bees survive the winter.


created: 2022-06-29 03:55:12.221961+00
last_modified: 2022-06-29 04:21:54.7968+00
name: High Maintenance
ucname: HIGH MAINTENANCE
intensity_bars: 888/888/888/488
devised: 2022-05-01
notes:
  We have a 16-year-old cat who has many medical issues. He’s been diagnosed with Cushing's Disease and has all the issues that come with that, so we have to regulate his food and he takes many medications. He is 'high maintenance' and I wanted to write a dance in which everyone is busy all the time.


created: 2018-10-17 11:19:16.952179+00
last_modified: 2022-08-15 14:39:13.876603+00
name: Golden Branch, The
ucname: GOLDEN BRANCH
intensity_bars: 8004/8888/8080/8888
devised: 2000-07-01
notes:
  This dance is devised in honour of the 50th Anniversary of the Boston Branch of the RSCDS. They are indeed a Golden Branch.

  NB there is a version of the instructions for this dance which has it as a Reel rather than Strathspey.


created: 2022-06-25 14:52:02.01652+00
last_modified: 2022-06-28 17:56:14.944002+00
name: Gill's Jig
ucname: GILLS JIG
notes:
  This dance was devised for Gillian Stewart, Branch member and one of our very accomplished Branch pianists. She has played for classes, courses and dances etc. for many years. She plays in both our local bands "The Braes of Wansbeck" and "The Music Will Tell You".


created: 2013-07-25 10:25:30.843969+00
last_modified: 2022-06-28 18:02:40.166861+00
name: Time to Spare
ucname: TIME TO SPARE
intensity_bars: 884 884 844 808
notes:
  This dance was devised in 2011 in memory of Howard Graham who, with hs wife Heather, were members of our Branch and attended most of our functions.  Howard was retired and used to say he had "Time to Spare".


created: 2001-11-21 23:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-07-05 10:36:26.119306+00
name: S-Locomotion
ucname: SLOCOMOTION
intensity_bars: 6666/6666/8488/8888
devised: 1998-01-01
notes:
  In the  "Scottish Country Dancer" No 21 October 2015 under 'Letters to the editors' , p.28 you find the following interesting letter about the pronunciation of 'S-Locomotion'.

  Dear Editor,

  At the recent AGM we were invited to dance the strathspey from book 41, which was incorrectly announced as "Ess-Locomotion".  The deviser, the late Ken Jones of Sheffield Branch wrote this dance in honour of our Branch President, Paul Bond.  Ken knew that Paul had a passionate interest in steam engines  and assumed, wrongly as it happens, that these were the type which hauled trains, hence "Locomotion".  However, he realized that by preceding this word with the letter "S", he could point out that Paul, always a stirrer, but now getting elderly, caused, wherever he went, a "slow commotion"!

  Joyce and Hugh Porteous, Sheffield Branch


created: 2022-07-06 11:21:13.644173+00
last_modified: 2022-09-02 10:25:09.919467+00
name: Friday Evening, The
ucname: FRIDAY EVENING
intensity_bars: 800/811/844/804
notes:
  From the dance notes: *What to do when your Internet connection is lost while you’re in the middle of the class? To write a new dance, of course!*


created: 2022-06-29 04:20:02.06846+00
last_modified: 2022-06-29 15:12:48.43264+00
name: Golden Splendor
ucname: GOLDEN SPLENDOR
intensity_bars: 880/888/888/844
devised: 2022-05-01
notes:
  One day I was looking out the window and flashes of gold flew by and I watched a pair of goldfinches flying around the yard, then I thought of the figure in bars 1-8 and the rest followed. When my group tried the dance, people set in bars 17-24 as is often done in Australian Ladies (half set across then finish facing up and down) and one person opted to half set backing up then finishing forward. But first couple can make the track just fine – note that the track is a figure of 8 around 1st corner positions.


created: 2022-06-25 14:28:47.181819+00
last_modified: 2022-10-25 20:04:19.476269+00
name: Robert's Rant
ucname: ROBERTS RANT
notes:
  Devised in March 2018 in memory of Robert Hughes who died the previous month. [More detail in the book]


created: 2022-06-17 15:04:31.484378+00
last_modified: 2022-06-26 11:39:47.319337+00
name: Ronalds' Reel, The
ucname: RONALDS REEL
intensity_bars: 884/888/844/844/888/888
devised: 2022-04-30
notes:
  The dance is dedicated to Chris and Sue Ronald in gratitude for mentoring and supporting a new generation of teachers and dancers in the New York area in the years before they left stateside and returned to their native England in 2021. 


created: 2022-06-23 22:41:56.971234+00
last_modified: 2022-10-25 20:10:03.462831+00
name: North Country Weaver
ucname: NORTH COUNTRY WEAVER
devised: 2022-02-01
notes:
  Devised by Beth Birdsall in February 2022 in honor of her mother, Polly Birdsall, for the occasion of a
  birthday. Polly is an avid weaver and knitter in addition to being a Scottish Country Dance teacher, and
  the figures of the dance are intended to evoke warping and weaving on a loom.


created: 2022-07-03 01:55:33.072332+00
last_modified: 2022-10-09 10:29:11.725775+00
name: Shared Tradition, A
ucname: SHARED TRADITION
intensity_bars: 800/822/822/844
devised: 2022-03-01
notes:
  We dance all over the world and we dance the same figures, thus Scottish Country Dancing is a worldwide shared tradition.


created: 1998-12-20 23:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-06-15 07:45:51.021248+00
name: Scottish Fiddler o' Crieff, The
ucname: SCOTTISH FIDDLER O CRIEFF
intensity_bars: 880/844/888/888
devised: 1984-01-01
notes:
  Dedicated to the fiddle players at Pinewoods, 1982, and devised for Ron's tunes "Bert Gonnella's Jig" and
  "Lizzie Duncan's Fancy" by Evelyn M. E. Murray.  

  The Fiddler is, of course, Ron Gonnella. The musicians at Pinewoods Camp in Massachusetts, that year included Christine Anderson, Ron Gonnella, Colin Gordon, Barbara McOwen, Ed Pearlman, Ralph Thompson and John Turner. Pinewoods is the place where the Boston Branch of the Royal Scottish Country Dance Society holds its summer week and weekend sessions. To the deviser, Pinewoods is a beautiful place to enjoy the timeless musical and dancing heritage of Scotland without interference from the modern world; it means "time out"!


created: 2002-03-11 23:00:00+00
last_modified: 2023-01-27 11:16:45.780382+00
name: Glowerin' Coo, The
ucname: GLOWERIN COO
intensity_bars: 888 866 866 844
devised: 1988-01-01
notes:
  Dedication for the dance: "For Stanley Wilkie of Edinburgh who, when teaching double triangles, said that first couple should not be like 'coos glowering ower a dyke'."


created: 2020-10-03 19:56:11.118922+00
last_modified: 2022-06-16 23:02:37.794313+00
name: Four Weeks of Summer School
ucname: FOUR WEEKS OF SUMMER SCHOOL
devised: 2020-01-01
notes:
  The notes suggest you "Imagine the first day of Summer School in St. Andrews where people from around the world meet. First meetings, first dancing, more and more new friends till the last night which means the end of the week and leaving new friends. But at the same time it is the beginning of a new week..."


created: 2021-06-21 21:25:49.969513+00
last_modified: 2022-06-17 11:07:59.687536+00
name: Paddlewheeler, The
ucname: PADDLEWHEELER
intensity_bars: 8080/8080/8888/8888
devised: 2001-04-01
notes:
  Devised to celebrate the one day workshop held by the Vernon SCD club in the Paddlewheel Hall, Vernon B.C. in April 2001.


created: 2022-06-19 15:34:24.666318+00
last_modified: 2022-06-19 15:34:57.726931+00
name: Black Hole Spin
ucname: BLACK HOLE SPIN
devised: 2018-03-01
notes:
  From the deviser: “ The gradually increasing number and size of circles, from two people to four people
  to eight, is intended to represent the increasing size of black holes over time as they merge together.
  The casting out of the circle is intended to represent Hawking radiation; pair production near to a black
  hole event horizon (pairs turn), can lead to one particle falling into the black hole (one of each pair forms
  a circle), the other particle free to radiate out (dance out and cast). In this way, energy is lost from a
  black hole and they can evaporate over time (circle disperses).

  The general motion of the dance is (almost) continually in the same direction, reminiscent of the
  conserved angular momentum / spin properties of a black hole. This dance was devised in honour of
  Stephen Hawking, who passed away aged 76 on 14th March 2018.”

  DEVISED: 2018-03


created: 2015-09-21 22:02:06.120748+00
last_modified: 2022-06-19 16:36:37.026541+00
name: Yorkshire Rose, The
ucname: YORKSHIRE ROSE
intensity_bars: 888/800/844/888
devised: 2013-01-01
notes:
  Source: Minicrib

  Devised in 2013 for over 90 year old Winifred Barker. See <<https://www.chesterstandard.co.uk/news/15973701.chester-woman-90-has-traditional-jig-named-after-her/>>.
  (NB her name is misspelled Baker in that article: see <<https://my.strathspey.org/dd/issue/2810/|issue 2810>>).


created: 2001-09-12 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-07-21 15:05:36.634919+00
name: Cat and the Fiddle, The
ucname: CAT AND THE FIDDLE
intensity_bars: 800 888 888 844
devised: 1998-01-01
notes:
  Note from the original description: Both of the diagonal half reels of four (Bars13-16 and Bars 21-24) are from first place on the women's side to third place on the men's side.


created: 2011-08-22 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-08-14 08:24:19.281269+00
name: City in Bloom, A
ucname: CITY IN BLOOM
intensity_bars: 800/844/888/888
devised: 2007-03-01
notes:
  Dedicated to Muriel Johnstone, Keith Smith, Bill and Atsuko Clement and Bill Zobel, on the occasion of Pretoria Branch's 35th Anniversary celebration in October 2007, the time of year when Jacaranda blossoms turn the city of Pretoria into a mauve wonderland.


created: 2002-11-14 23:00:00+00
last_modified: 2024-01-28 21:31:33.641563+00
name: Road to Applecross, The
ucname: ROAD TO APPLECROSS
intensity_bars: 800/866/866/888
notes:
  Not to be confused with <<ddd:Trip to Applecross>>.

  “Applecross, a remote Highland village on Scotland's west coast, facing the island of Raasay, can be approached via Bealach nam Bo, ‘The Pass of the Cattle’, a mountain road with steep zig-zag turns and spectacular views of Skye and the Outer Isles.”


created: 2005-04-14 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-06-22 22:11:54.945856+00
name: Desperation
ucname: DESPERATION
intensity_bars: 880/844/888/888
devised: 1994-04-01
notes:
  The dance was devised in desperation as the deadline for the 1994 Jack McConachie Sword Competition entries loomed


created: 2021-11-06 18:06:29.546164+00
last_modified: 2022-06-23 20:57:09.77081+00
name: Maggie Boag's Jig
ucname: MAGGIE BOAGS JIG
devised: 2021-10-08
notes:
  Source <<https://youtu.be/pmMfNLfAOKU|youtube video>> which suggest that any reasonable recording of ”The Dhoon” will suffice.


created: 2022-07-07 09:31:09.292553+00
last_modified: 2022-07-07 09:31:09.292553+00
name: Moscow Bikefest
ucname: MOSCOW BIKEFEST
notes:
  From the dance notes:  
  *It’s about the Moscow Bicycle Festival. On which people who love cycling gather together to drive the entire Sadovoe Koltso (the name of the boulevard in Moscow). This is a dance about a meeting of like-minded people, Sadovoe, and of course, bicycles.*


created: 2022-07-07 09:38:25.837162+00
last_modified: 2022-07-07 09:38:25.837162+00
name: Eat the Road!
ucname: EAT THE ROAD
notes:
  From the dance notes:  
  *The dance is dedicated to Uriy Saifulin, the fastest taxi driver in Volga river region. He can transfer you from one town to another with the the speed of the light. Just fasten your seat belt.*


created: 2001-09-12 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-07-21 16:28:12.349536+00
name: Premium Bonds
ucname: PREMIUM BONDS
devised: 2000-01-01
notes:
  Drewry specifies in the notes to the dance: 

  - The dance may be danced just as a strathspey or just as a reel, or four times as a strathspey followed by four times as a reel, or twice as a strathspey followed by twice as a reel. 
  - When turning with two hands in reel tempo, skip change of step should be used.

  John Drewry wrote the dance for Paul and Dulcie Bond with the comment: "A dance to enrich life and avoid overtaxing yourself."


created: 1998-04-19 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-07-10 08:31:05.476299+00
name: Susie Petrov's Strathspey
ucname: SUSIE PETROVS STRATHSPEY
intensity_bars: 84448/88088/08880/88888
devised: 1990-01-01
notes:
  Devised in 1990 under the working title "Hamish Henderson's Refusal", the dance was revised in 1991 and published in 1992 as "Susie Petrov's Strathspey".

  The dance is dedicated to Susie Petrov, one of the inspiring musicians who have played at TAC Summer School [presumably 1990].

  This dance appears in a <<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cQ-vaS3Nsc|YouTube video>> that states: *Recorded on September 13, 2008, at the Arkansas Dance Festival in Mountain View. The dances included are "A Flock of Geese," "A Trip to St. Andrews." and "Preston Mill."*    The second dance is in fact "Susie Petrov's Strathspey".  It is unclear how the wrong name arose.


created: 2020-06-16 20:11:12.294631+00
last_modified: 2022-07-10 08:45:22.717334+00
name: Thunderbird 5
ucname: THUNDERBIRD 5
intensity_bars: 88888/80808/08088/24442
notes:
  devised this dance to help in classes when numbers may be limited and gave it this title as Thunderbirds was a favourite TV programme as a child.


created: 1997-04-03 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-07-14 02:10:15.423311+00
name: Scotch Gate
ucname: SCOTCH GATE
intensity_bars: 888/888/888/822
devised: 1979-01-01
notes:
  Entry to the old walled City of Carlisle from the Borders was through the Scotch Gate. It has historical associations with Bonnie Prince Charlie, Sir Walter Scott and the song The Yellow Haired Laddie.


created: 2021-10-21 18:20:13.362697+00
last_modified: 2022-07-10 10:18:12.409344+00
name: Trèfle à Quatre Feuilles, Le
ucname: TREFLE A QUATRE FEUILLES
intensity_bars: 800/844/844/888
devised: 2019-04-01
notes:
  This dance was devised to introduce the corners pass and turn formation. It was very popular in a group where only a very few people understand English, so it was given the French name for a four-leaf clover.


created: 2003-01-09 23:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-07-11 20:11:27.687956+00
name: Saint Columba's Strathspey
ucname: SAINT COLUMBAS STRATHSPEY
intensity_bars: 08080 48884 08080 48444
devised: 1985-02-15
notes:
  Devised for St. Columba's Hospice, Boswall Road, Edinburgh

  Warning. In "SCD in Diagrams" (the "Pilling" book), up to the 8th Edition, the line at bar 12 is solid instead of dashed, giving the erroneous impression that this is a 40-bar dance.


created: 2002-02-16 23:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-07-11 20:52:19.520131+00
name: Thomas Glover's Reel
ucname: THOMAS GLOVERS REEL
intensity_bars: 800 844 822 888
devised: 1998-01-01
notes:
  The dance notes say this was "for the dancers in Mr. Miyakawa's Group in Japan, who have invited me to visit them in 1998".

  Thomas Glover, originally from Aberdeen, settled in Nagasaki Japan where he founded a trading company.


created: 2001-09-12 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-07-21 15:07:23.067785+00
name: Christies' Strathspey
ucname: CHRISTIES STRATHSPEY
intensity_bars: 800 844 844 822
devised: 1999-08-01
notes:
  John Drewry wrote this dance for the Christies of Vancouver Island.

  We have two PDFs as source for this dance:
  1.  A typical Drewry typed sheet, where the dance is called "Christie's Strathspey"
  2.  A copy of the pages of Greenburn Book 3, where the dance is called "Christies' Strathspey"


created: 2022-06-25 13:46:02.165951+00
last_modified: 2022-07-28 08:47:23.115377+00
name: Busy Fingers
ucname: BUSY FINGERS
intensity_bars: 800/866/866/844
notes:
  Devised for Patricia Cass in appreciation for all she has done for our Branch over many years. Patricia is an accomplished pianist and has played for classes, courses and events for much longer than many members can remember. She has been on the Branch committee including some years as secretary. Along with her husband John (The Festival Man), she co-founded The Newcastle Festival and ran it for 30 years. This is a straightforward little dance as Patricia likes things to be uncluttered!


created: 2022-07-30 12:27:52.637809+00
last_modified: 2022-07-30 12:30:13.214708+00
name: Julia's First Cousin
ucname: JULIAS FIRST COUSIN
notes:
  Found at <<http://rscdsboston.org/events-fliers/Albany50thAnniversaryParty2022.pdf>> and dance list <<https://my.strathspey.org/dd/list/32988/>>.


created: 2022-07-15 13:28:18.307423+00
last_modified: 2022-07-15 13:41:53.843779+00
name: Mainzer Narhalla Reel
ucname: MAINZER NARHALLA REEL
devised: 2009-01-01
notes:
  The title of this dance is inspired by the <<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narrhallamarsch|Mainzer Narrhalla-Marsch>>, the signature tune of the “Meenzer Fassenacht” (Mainz carnival), composed in 1840 by bandmaster and founding member of the *Mainzer Carneval-Verein* (Carnival Club of Mainz), Carl Zulehner (1805-1847).

  In the city of Mainz, carnival is culturally very important (to a point where it is referred to locally as “the fifth season”). The SCD group there is called the “Narhalla Dancers” [only one “r”].

  The formations of the dance symbolise various aspects of the history and culture of the city of Mainz:

  - The hands across on bars 1–8 stand for the wheels in the city's traditional coat of arms.
  - The 1st couple's solo figure on bars 9–16 symbolises the Mainz carnival parade.
  - Bars 17–24 evoke the *Äbsch Seit* (“wrong side”), i.e., the other bank of the river Rhine.
    Of course the inhabitants of Mainz consider themselves greatly superior to the people living there
    (a sentiment that is vigorously reciprocated).
  - Bars 25–32 allude to Mainz-based Johannes Gutenberg's invention of printing using movable type.
  - The cross formation in bars 33–36 signifies the archbishopric of Mainz.
  - The final movement on bars 37–40, the “wine press”, points to the local tradition of viticulture.


created: 2022-07-15 17:37:12.538423+00
last_modified: 2022-07-15 17:37:12.538423+00
name: Reverse Reel, The
ucname: REVERSE REEL
notes:
  Deviser's notes: “While the instructions are for a 5×40 Dance, it can be danced in 3, 4, or 5 couple sets. If a 3 or 4 couple set, careful phrasing is required. It can also easily be ‘converted’ to a 32 bar reel by eliminating bars 17–24 (or 33–40).”


created: 2022-07-15 22:29:57.476833+00
last_modified: 2022-07-16 22:59:59.235228+00
name: Troubles End
ucname: TROUBLES END
intensity_bars: 880/888/888/888/844
devised: 2022-05-01
notes:
  After a wonderful SCD weekend at Pawling and a visit with Lois New in Albany for a hybrid zoom dance (on the more exciting side of the camera for a change), we were driving up through Vermont to see Don and Martha Kent. We passed a lane called Troubles End and, since that described exactly how we felt after going away for the first time in 2 years, I decided to use it as a name for a dance – dedicated to Pawling,  
  Lois New and Don and Martha Kent. Thank you for making us feel human again.


created: 2000-01-16 23:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-07-21 14:53:48.619494+00
name: Milton's Strathspey
ucname: MILTONS STRATHSPEY
devised: 1997-01-01
notes:
  John Drewry wrote the dance in memory of Milton Levy, who died in December 1996 and who devised the formations 'set and link for three' and 'balance in line with Highland Schottische'.


created: 2005-11-08 23:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-07-16 19:45:10.735443+00
name: Lady Stoneycroft
ucname: LADY STONEYCROFT
intensity_bars: 8888/8888/6666/2666
notes:
  Lady Stoneycroft was the name given to the mother of one of the dancers who put on a posh voice when answering the phone.


created: 2001-09-12 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-07-21 15:03:31.129258+00
name: Bow Fiddle Rock
ucname: BOW FIDDLE ROCK
intensity_bars: 800/844/888/888
devised: 2000-05-01
notes:
  Note from the original description: "Bow Fiddle Rock" is at Portknockie at the west end of Cullen Bay (about forty miles north of Aberdeen). It is a large pointed rock surrounded by the sea, but not very far from the shore. On it's south side there is a large arc of rock almost like a flying buttress. An impressive sight! There, are several other interesting rocks nearby.


created: 1998-07-08 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-07-21 10:13:51.51853+00
name: Whisky in Bond
ucname: WHISKY IN BOND
devised: 1982-01-01
notes:
  *Notes from the book:*

  The dance was written to mark the Silver Wedding Anniversary of Paul and Dulcie Bond.

  'Whisky in Bond' is whisky stored in a 'bonded' warehouse awaiting payment of excise duty.
  Naturally it is kept with the strictest security.


created: 2002-02-16 23:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-07-21 10:20:47.252652+00
name: Whirling Dervishes, The
ucname: WHIRLING DERVISHES
intensity_bars: 8080/8888/8484/8008
devised: 2000-09-01
notes:
  The dance notes for the set turning about in bars 3-4 say
  'Dancers who find this too vertiginous may set without turning'.


created: 2002-03-03 23:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-07-21 16:19:01.804961+00
name: Oooh Chihuahua!
ucname: OOOH CHIHUAHUA
intensity_bars: 4884/8888/8008/6666/8448/8888
devised: 2000-01-01
notes:
  John Drewry adds some notes in *Greenburn Book 3:*

  * A jolly dance to celebrate May Day 2000
  * The title, which comes from an exclamation made by a young man in a current Television Commercial, is pronounced with the "Oooh" very long and the second syllable of "Chihuahua" strongly accented. I thought it would be an amusing dance title.
  * Chihuahua is a province and a city in the north of Mexico. My books tell me that the province is mainly a high plateau and I hope that the dancers are on a high after doing the dance.
  * Chihuahuas are also a breed of miniature dogs.


created: 2022-07-30 12:40:22.721208+00
last_modified: 2022-07-30 12:40:22.721208+00
name: Black Cat's Jig, The
ucname: BLACK CATS JIG
notes:
  Source <<http://www.rscds-greaterdc.org/flyers/nova_carolporter2022_cs.pdf>> and dance list <<https://my.strathspey.org/dd/list/34989/>>.


created: 2022-07-30 12:09:00.876289+00
last_modified: 2023-04-13 20:18:39.86936+00
name: V Times X
ucname: V TIMES X
notes:
  Found at <<http://rscdsboston.org/events-fliers/Albany50thAnniversaryParty2022.pdf>> and dance list <<https://my.strathspey.org/dd/list/32988/>> where it is just attributed to "Grubb".


created: 2001-09-12 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-07-21 15:15:18.065559+00
name: Dowry Bride, The
ucname: DOWRY BRIDE
intensity_bars: 8000/8880/8880/8484
devised: 1999-10-01
notes:
  *Notes from Greenburn Book 3:*

  For Margaret Pirie of St Cyrus at the request of her husband Charlie.

  1. John Orr was born at Bridgeton, near St Cyprus, in 1794. He went to India and worked in Madras. He retired in 1843 and died in November 1845. He left money in a trust, proceeds from which were to be divided by five and given each year to the oldest, youngest, tallest and shortest brides married in St Cyrus Kirk; the fifth portion was to be used for the relief of the poor of the parish. This distribution of money continues to the present day and the recipients are known as 'The Dowry Brides of St Cyrus'.
  1. The progression is similar to that in *The Earl of Mansfield*.
  1. In this dance 4th couple do not dance until Bars 29-32.
  1. Bars 1-8 could be regarded as 1st woman comparing her statistics with those of the other women in the set.<BR> 
  Bars 17-24 are the bridal progression!


created: 2001-09-12 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-07-21 16:02:33.718962+00
name: Granny Knot, The
ucname: GRANNY KNOT
intensity_bars: 520 888 444 555 888 888
devised: 2000-01-01
notes:
  John Drewry wrote in 2000: "The Granny Knot" and "The Ocean Plait" are virtually the same dance, but in different tempi.  I may withdraw one when I find out which is more popular with the dancers."

  *Greenburn Book 3* shows the following dedication: Another KNOT for Morland! For all the grannies who attend the week of dancing in Morland.


created: 2001-09-12 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-07-21 15:18:28.533013+00
name: Dunbuy
ucname: DUNBUY
devised: 2000-01-01
notes:
  Notes from *Greenburn Book 3:*

  Dunbuy (pronounced dun-boo-eee) is a small rocky island with a hole through the middle like a window. It lies between Siains Castle and the Bullers of Buchan, just to the south of Peterhead. It was visited by Dr. Johnson and Boswell on their tour of Scotland.

  Dunbuy comes from the Gaelic "Dun Buidhe" meaning "Yellow Castle". The rock is reddish-brown. Maybe the "yellow" comes from the droppings of the sea birds which swarm on the rocks in their thousands!


created: 2001-09-12 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-07-21 16:45:39.941327+00
name: Rings Round the Moon
ucname: RINGS ROUND THE MOON
intensity_bars: 800/888/800/888
devised: 2000-01-01
notes:
  Devised in April 2000 for the Hereford Scottish Country Dance Club in memory of Harold James, who had been dancing for 49 years.

  In the 2001 printing by TACbooks, the title in the table of contents is "Rings Around the Moon", but the title above the dance description is "RINGS ROUND THE MOON".  After the description follows: "NOTE: I called a previous dance for Hereford Over the Moon.  "Rings Round the Moon" are not rings like the rings of Saturn, but Lunar Haloes. A double halo is a rare event."   It seems clear that Drewry wanted the name to be "Rings Round the Moon". "Rings Around the Moon" has been added as an alias.   


created: 2001-09-12 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-07-21 15:25:57.51633+00
name: Dumfries Doglet, The
ucname: DUMFRIES DOGLET
devised: 2000-01-01
notes:
  John Drewry wrote this dance for Briar Johnstone of Dumfries.

  Further notes from *Greenburn Book 3:*

  1. In May 2000 Jackie Johnstone brought his dog Briar to the Morland Dance Week. (The pronunciation of "Briar" rhymes with "deer".) Briar used to be an Afghan but he shrank in the wash. Unfortunately Jackie did not use "Brand-X" for the laundering process.<BR> Briar attended the dance classes in Morland and attracted a lot of attention from the dancers and, when they heard his sad history, they all said "Oooh Chihuahua!".
  1. _The women use four pas de basque. The men may use pas de basque but on Bars 1-2 they should really use "PAS DE CHIEN"_: i.e. they hop four times on the left foot while holding the right foot in second aerial position.<BR> Alternatively the men may place the left foot in second position for the first hop and then bring it in to third rear aerial position for the second hop and repeat this for the remaining hops.<BR> They then use pas de basque for Bars 3-4.
  1. Bars 17-24 (and 25-32) are a new form of progression which, in Briar's honour, may be called a _"Doglette"_.<BR> (Certainly NOT a "Pussette"! Briar would be horrified at the very idea!!!)


created: 2001-09-12 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-07-21 15:58:05.348067+00
name: Jiggin' Janet
ucname: JIGGIN JANET
intensity_bars: 880 880 880 880 800
devised: 2001-01-01
notes:
  Dedication from *Greenburn Book 3:* A dance in memory of Etta Gibson who left us at Christmas 2000.

  More notes from the book: 

  1. This is a very energetic dance in which 1st and 2nd couples dance without a break for 32 bars. The last eight bars have been added to take 1st couple to third place where they can rest after dancing once. The unfortunate 2nd couple have to dance twice with only an 8 bar rest between turns. 
  1. There is a Jig tune composed by Jimmy Blair called "Etta Gibson".


created: 2001-09-12 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-07-21 16:00:09.4596+00
name: Lord's Lodging, The
ucname: LORDS LODGING
devised: 2000-01-01
notes:
  Dedication from *Greenburn Book 3:* A dance to celebrate the visit of Ron Wallace and his dancers to Huntly.

  Further notes from the book:

  1. At the end of the second turn of the dance,1 st woman dances down crossing over to fourth place, while 1 st man casts off to fourth place.
  1. While staying at Huntly Castle Hotel, Ron and his party visited the ruins of Huntly Castle and, in the part known as "The Lord's Lodging", Ron played the pipes while some of the group danced. Ron felt that this was one of the highlights of the tour.


created: 2001-09-12 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-07-21 16:04:12.636714+00
name: Monster on the Rocks, The
ucname: MONSTER ON THE ROCKS
intensity_bars: 4444/8888/8888/8888/8844
devised: 2000-05-01
notes:
  Drewry adds two notes in *Greenburn Book 3:*

  1. The title does not refer to Bigfoot in Western Canada, but to a rock formation which I have discovered between Slains Castle and Dunbuy (just to the north of Cruden Bay). The rocks have two holes right through the base and, from the cliff top, they look like a monster trying to climb out of the sea.
  1. It is quite safe to be near the monster because it is very friendly. In fact it is "pally"olithic.


created: 2001-09-12 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-07-21 16:16:54.763235+00
name: One Fine Day
ucname: ONE FINE DAY
intensity_bars: 80800/84884/84884/82842
devised: 1999-01-01
notes:
  In *Greenburn Book 3* John Drewry adds some notes:

  * The dance is a conversion of "Thomas Glover's Reel" into a 5 couple dance.
  * Thomas Glover went to Japan and settled in Nagasaki, where he married a Japanese wife. The opera "Madame Butterfly" was thought to be inspired by the story of Thomas although he did not abandon his wife as Pinkerton did.
  * "One Fine Day" is a celebrated aria from the opera.


created: 2001-09-12 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-07-21 16:12:38.86453+00
name: Ocean Plait, The
ucname: OCEAN PLAIT
devised: 2000-01-01
notes:
  John Drewry wrote in 2000: "The Granny Knot" and "The Ocean Plait" are virtually the same dance, but in different tempi.  I may withdraw one when I find out which is more popular with the dancers."

  *Greenburn Book 3* shows the following dedication: Another KNOT for Morland! This is similar to the Granny Knot but in quick tempo.

  In addition, John Drewry notes: An Ocean Plait is a very complicated knot made from a single length of rope. (See "Knots and Ropework" by Eric C. Fry. (David and Charles))


created: 2001-09-12 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-07-21 16:24:09.732823+00
name: Paddy Baa
ucname: PADDY BAA
devised: 2000-05-01
notes:
  Note in *Greenburn Book 3:* 

  I have just visited my friends at Dulnain Bridge and they were helping the local farmer by bottle-feeding two lambs. The farmer's wife had christened one of the lambs PADDY BAA and I felt this would be a good title for a dance because that was the way some people used to pronounce "pas de basque".

  The dedication at the top of the dance description reads: for the Cade Lambs of Strathspey


created: 2001-09-12 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-07-21 16:25:48.672188+00
name: Out of Africa
ucname: OUT OF AFRICA
intensity_bars: 6886/8228/8448/8888
devised: 2000-01-01
notes:
  The dedication in *Greenburn Book 3* says: A dance For the Golden Wedding of Jim and Rina Grant of Aberdeen.

  Furthermore, John Drewry added some notes:

  1. At the end of each tum, except the last, 4th man in second place on the men's side, and 1 st man in third place on the women's side, can stay facing out ready to repeat the dance with new end couples.
  1. This dance was requested by Jim and Rina's daughter Fiona, who now lives in Bristol.
  1. Jim and Rina were married in 1952 in Nigeria, where they were both working. That gave me the idea of the title of this dance.
  1. Haverholme Priory, near Sleaford in lincolnshire, was the home of the Finch-Hattons. It is now a shell because of a disastrous fire.<BR> Denys Finch-Hatton features in Karen Blixen's book Out of Africa. My sister thinks that our father's mother worked at the Priory when she was a young girl. She certainly came from that part of lincolnshire and was the same grandmother who claimed a family connection with Sir Isaac Newton.


created: 2003-01-30 23:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-07-21 16:29:49.918876+00
name: Recumbent Stone, The
ucname: RECUMBENT STONE
intensity_bars: 48884/80800/84840/84884/82842/80800
devised: 2000-01-01
notes:
  Some notes by John Drewry in *Greenburn Book 3:*

  Recumbent stone circles are found in the North-East of Scotland and
  they are thought to be at least five thousand years old. The recumbent
  stone is a very large stone lying on its side and it is flanked by two
  upright stones which are of a similar size to the other stones in the circle.
  The recumbent stone is always on the south-west side of the circle and it
  is thought that it was used in observations of the moon. There is a fine
  recumbent stone circle at Easter Aquhorthies to the north-west of
  Inverurie.

  Once, when I was visiting it, I met a wee man who assured me that
  someone standing in the circle was much more likely to see U.F.O's than
  someone standing nearby! Maybe his powers of imagination were more
  developed than mine.

  An article in the Scotsman revealed that this circle has unusual
  acoustic properties which have been verified with scientific instruments.
  Similar acoustic properties are found at the Cairns of Camster, near
  Wick, in Caithness. The suggestion was that the old priests used the
  acoustic properties to impress the people with their "magic" powers.


created: 2022-05-21 09:47:56.837123+00
last_modified: 2022-07-27 21:59:07.469708+00
name: Splendour in the Grass
ucname: SPLENDOUR IN THE GRASS
intensity_bars: 880/888/888/808
devised: 2020-09-01
notes:
  The title comes from seeing a sign attached to a lamp post on Hampstead Heath (during the pandemic) which read:  
  *“There is splendour in the grass” (Wordsworth).*  
  *There is also my lost hearing aid!*  
  *Unusually pleasant reward offered...*

  The dance contains the Snake Pass figure but any snakes in the grass should be assumed to be slow worms (which are actually lizards).


created: 2022-06-25 14:36:58.399533+00
last_modified: 2022-07-29 09:19:34.002105+00
name: Quince Jelly
ucname: QUINCE JELLY
intensity_bars: 4884/8888/8008/8888
notes:
  1st and 4th couples cross on 2nd chord.

  The deviser wished the dance to be danced 2x32S + 2x32R. The Recording on the CD is 2x(32S+32R).

  Dance written for our good friends, Peter and Madeleine Quince who have been members of our Branch and attended dances here for many years. Peter was on our committee and served as Chairman for two years. They danced and made friends all over this country as well as many others, especially in France, Madeleine's home country, where they lived for part of each year. Peter liked homemade jam and I often gave them some of my home made quince jelly.
  Sadly, Peter died in early 2019 before the dance was published.


created: 2002-02-27 23:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-07-30 16:17:27.713216+00
name: Robertson Rant, The
ucname: ROBERTSON RANT
intensity_bars: 8888 8888 8080 8888 0808 8888 6666 6666 8888 8888
devised: 1949-01-01
notes:
  The following corrections were included on a loose sheet "Notes on Dances by Bob Grant June 1996", when Book 39 was first sold in the Summer School bookshop:

  17-24  Men finish reel by curving left about, acknowledging partner, before facing corner (Men speed up, women slow down)


created: 1997-09-17 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-07-31 09:54:37.980699+00
name: Catch Ye Her Eye
ucname: CATCH YE HER EYE
notes:
  The notes say this was written "To emphasise the importance - and the pleasure from the use of eye contact with your partner".


created: 1997-04-03 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-07-31 11:35:30.631754+00
name: Kickapoo Gatherings
ucname: KICKAPOO GATHERINGS
devised: 1989-09-01
notes:
  From the notes: Dedicated to Avril and David Quarrie as thanks for the many delightful social gatherings they hosted at their home on Kickapoo Road in Batavia, Illinois.


created: 2001-09-12 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-07-21 16:43:32.811012+00
name: Round Hay of Six, The
ucname: ROUND HAY OF SIX
devised: 1964-01-01
notes:
  The dedication reads: For the Leeds Day School

  Drewry specifies: »The dance may be danced as a Strathspey only, or it may be repeated in Reel tempo to make a Medley.« or in the wording of *Greenburn Book 3:* »Strathspey - 3 couples - 64 bars OR Medley [Strathspey + Reel] - 64+64 bars«

  Further notes by John Drewry from the *Greenburn Book 3:*

  - _about the setup:_  
    The dance is triangular in shape and the couples stand at the apices of an equilateral triangle.  
    For the women, comers are the men standing on their right and contra comers are the other men. For the men, comers are the women standing on their left and contra corners are the other women.  
  The dance may be danced as a Strathspey only, or it may be repeated in Reel Tempo to make a Medley.
  - _about the name:_
     There is already a dance called The Round Reel of Eight (Book 27 No.7). This gave me the idea for the title of this dance.  
     In English Country Dances a "Hey" or "Hay" is the equivalent of a "Reel" in Scottish Country Dances.  
  ROUNDHAY is a district of Leeds with a famous park.
  - The _Triangular Reel of Six_ is slightly like a triangular Schiehallion Reel, but the phrasing is different.  
  The phrasing in this dance is:- dance in, pass left shoulders, dance out and curve round into place using four equal steps (similar to the phrasing in a foursome reel).  
  In a Schiehallion Reel the phrasing for the men is:- two long steps to travel to the next woman's place and two short steps to cast to the man's place, whereas for the women it is:- two short steps to cast to the man's place and then two tong steps to travel to the next woman's place. I hope I am not being too pedantic in thinking in this way about the reels.


created: 2001-09-12 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-07-21 16:56:51.586475+00
name: New Leeds Strathspey, The
ucname: NEW LEEDS STRATHSPEY
devised: 2001-01-01
notes:
  John Drewry wrote the dance for the Day School in Leeds, Yorkshire.

  ...and he added the note: *New Leeds* is a village about eight miles south of Fraserburgh in Aberdeenshire.


created: 2022-08-11 08:36:35.336809+00
last_modified: 2022-08-11 08:44:35.767975+00
name: Reel of the 51st Confusion, The
ucname: REEL OF THE 51ST CONFUSION
devised: 2021-08-01
notes:
  Devised by Anne Lanvin, Corentin Lefèvre, Isabelle Herlant, Louise Baltera, Nicolas “Niols” Jeannerod and Victor Lanvin on August 8th, 2021. This dance is a variation of one of the most popular Scottish country dances, “The Reel of the 51st Division”.


created: 2001-09-12 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-07-21 17:00:17.035399+00
name: Toll House, The
ucname: TOLL HOUSE
intensity_bars: 880/888/888/088
devised: 1999-09-01
notes:
  John Drewry wrote this dance in September 1999 for Margaret Hutcheon of Mosstowie and Margaret Kendall of Pontefract.

  Furthermore he added the following notes in *Greenburn Book 3:*

  - At the junction on the. A96 Aberdeen-Inverness road, where the road to Mosstowie branches off, there is an old toll house which is painted in such a way that the windows appear to have eyebrows!
  - The house in Monymusk, where Margaret Kendali spends some time each summer is also an old toll house.

  _Please also note:_ The Pilling diagram in the 8th edition is in error, see the supplement to the 8th edition for the correct one.


created: 2002-05-14 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-07-22 15:25:20.304954+00
name: Nae Fantoosherie
ucname: NAE FANTOOSHERIE
intensity_bars: 822/888/866/888
devised: 1994-05-01
notes:
  The dance was devised to celebrate the appointment of Miss Biddy Fawdry as a Vice-President of the Birmingham Branch of the RSCDS in May 1994. 

  'Nae Fantoosherie' means 'no pretentiousness'. 


created: 1998-10-15 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-07-24 08:45:18.35231+00
name: Wind Dragon, The
ucname: WIND DRAGON
intensity_bars: 888/800/880/880
devised: 1990-12-30
notes:
  Inspired by a small kite with long red tails seen soaring above a local park earlier in the day. The deviser has since learnt that a 'dragon' is also 'a paper kite'.

  The instructions published in <<ddpub:Island Bay Collection (2nd edition)#344>> have an error in bars 17-24 which those who have a copy should correct. Instead of:  
  *17-24   First couple, first woman followed closely by her partner, dance a reel of three across the set with _second_ couple passing second woman by right shoulders to begin.*  
  it should read:  
  *17-24   First couple, first woman followed closely by her partner, dance a reel of three across the set with _first_ couple passing second woman by right shoulders to begin.*  


created: 2006-11-14 23:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-07-24 19:52:44.132954+00
name: Starsigns
ucname: STARSIGNS
notes:
  For all the Maths enthusiasts who enjoy SCD. The last 8 bars portray constructing a hypocycloid. Some dancers would love knowing this; perhaps better not tell the others ...


created: 1998-09-29 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-07-23 20:07:32.853568+00
name: Madge Wildfire's Strathspey
ucname: MADGE WILDFIRES STRATHSPEY
intensity_bars: 888/888/866/866
devised: 1820-01-01
notes:
  The instructions for bars 9-16 have changed more than once over the years *(details courtesy of the MiniCrib team)*.
  The original publication and some revised editions of Book 9 say the three couples cross "passing right shoulder".
  The publication "101 Scottish Country Dances" and a number of subsequent editions of Book 9 changed that to cross "giving right hands".
  In the latest RSCDS edition of Book 9 (published in 2009) they just cross "passing by the right".
  The 2013 edition of the RSCDS manual is more explicit, saying that while the original specified no hands, these days usually hands are given.


created: 1997-04-03 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-08-01 20:10:09.718626+00
name: Manor Farm
ucname: MANOR FARM
notes:
  The notes say this was "devised from an idea put forward by Margaret Roberts at a dance class at Manor Farm and arranged in conjunction with her."


created: 1997-04-03 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-08-02 07:52:41.617521+00
name: Parrotts' Strathspey
ucname: PARROTTS STRATHSPEY
devised: 1988-09-01
notes:
  The notes say: "Dedicated to Jeanette and Ken Parrott, active members and supporters of the Loch Michigan Scottish Country Dance Group since its beginning. Jeanette was one of the first teachers of the group."


created: 1997-04-03 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-08-02 08:05:46.226713+00
name: Ringing The Changes
ucname: RINGING THE CHANGES
notes:
  From the notes: "Dedicated to Charles and Elaine Dunn on their retirement as Masters of Quincy House".


created: 2019-09-04 09:10:47.118159+00
last_modified: 2022-08-02 09:11:39.573295+00
name: Piper's Wedding, The
ucname: PIPERS WEDDING
intensity_bars: 80808/08080/88888/80000
devised: 1989-02-01
notes:
  Sole source:  Minicrib who just attributed it to "Johnstone" (of which there are several).

  According to <<https://my.strathspey.org/dd/issue/2846/|issue 2846>> it was devised by Jackie Johnstone, Dumfries, February 1999 with music arranged by <<ddp:Holmes, Ian#1668>>.


created: 2001-09-10 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-08-03 10:48:39.218956+00
name: Craigievar Magic
ucname: CRAIGIEVAR MAGIC
intensity_bars: 8888/8888/6666/8888/8888
notes:
  Two couples facing two couples round the room.

  *From <<https://my.strathspey.org/dd/issue/2853/|issue 2853>>:* The original notes to this dance contain the following notations at the bottom:

  Repeat 3 more times (Hoping the magic works) P.S. If one person goes wrong, the magic doesn’t work!!

  The “magic” Bill Forbes is talking about is that the progression of the dance over four repetitions is somewhat miraculous. The first repetition takes everyone away from their original partner and set, and further repetitions seem to irretrievably scramble things. But, astoundingly, after four repetitions, everyone is back with their original partner in their original set (!). And it works regardless of how many sets are on the floor. Truly amazing when it works. But as pointed out in the notes, if any one person goes wrong, especially early on, it messes up the progression for almost everyone.


created: 2022-07-30 23:26:39.765125+00
last_modified: 2022-08-03 13:17:35.03867+00
name: Natsumi's Jig
ucname: NATSUMIS JIG
intensity_bars: 8888/8000/8000/8800
devised: 2018-01-01
notes:
  Source <<https://youtu.be/mpIOTXbUmz0|youtube video>> where it is described as a 4C set but appears to have 2134 progression. In SCDDB it is, for the moment, shown as a 2 couple dance although all couples take part in the circle.

  Deviser's note:  
  * Note 1: This was originally devised as a dance performed only twice through for four couples in a four-couple longwise set to honour and entertain 1st couple.  
  * Note 2: This dance has the progression of a three-couple dance in a four-couple set, and is danced eight times through. However, all four couples dance bars 1-8 as in a four-couple dance.


created: 2017-05-21 08:49:37.212648+00
last_modified: 2022-08-03 20:09:00.129873+00
name: Ashley and Her Husbands
ucname: ASHLEY AND HER HUSBANDS
intensity_bars: 800 853 835 888
devised: 2016-12-01
notes:
  For Ashley Weller, with many thanks for organising the Gay Gordons expert evenings.

  Ashley’s husband Steve does not dance, so Ashley travels to dance events with past and present members of the Gay Gordons who are sometimes assumed to be her partner and whom she collectively refers to as her extra husbands. In this dance 1st woman goes on promenades with other men while her partner is solo for the central 16 bars.

  A recording by Ian Robertson of the music for this dance is available via <<https://my.strathspey.org/u/murrough/recording/>>.


created: 1997-04-03 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-08-21 08:16:08.835635+00
name: Mill on the Don, The
ucname: MILL ON THE DON
notes:
  The instructions for this dance are a little hard to interpret usually omitting "half" from half figues and relying on bar counts. The numbering of couples often seems to refer to current places rather than original positions.


created: 2002-02-28 23:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-08-04 21:57:07.706447+00
name: Mrs MacDougall's Strathspey
ucname: MRS MACDOUGALLS STRATHSPEY
devised: 1988-01-01
notes:
  Inscribed "For Jeannie Mac Dougall of the St. Columba's Scottish Country Dance Group".

  SCDDB originally had a devised date of 1993, but a copy of the instructions has January 1988. And the name is spelled with a space as "Mac Dougall" which is added as an alias.


created: 2021-12-03 22:17:05.898319+00
last_modified: 2022-08-04 07:58:48.932481+00
name: Madge Wildfire's Reel
ucname: MADGE WILDFIRES REEL
intensity_bars: 880/800/822/888
notes:
  Originally published in 1820 by John Sutherland, Edinburgh in a booklet linked to Sir Walter Scott's novel The Heart of Midlothian. Reconstructed by the RSCDS in 2021 to mark the 250th anniversary of Sir Walter Scott's birth.


created: 2001-11-25 23:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-08-05 16:56:31.29552+00
name: Glencoe Weeps
ucname: GLENCOE WEEPS
devised: 2001-11-01
notes:
  During my August 2001 trip to Scotland, our last stop was Glencoe. It was an on-and-off rainy day, but that made it all the better because water poured off the mountains of Glencoe, making lovely waterfalls and rapids. The name of this dance also reflects the legend of the massacre of Glencoe.


created: 2013-03-14 10:15:09.622151+00
last_modified: 2022-08-05 17:01:42.426862+00
name: "You Cannot go Wrong!"
ucname: YOU CANNOT GO WRONG
notes:
  Devised by Trisha Rawlings for the Oxfordshire Branch of the RSCDS as a mark of their affection and esteem for John Armstrong, a favourite teacher, whose catchphrase after instruction was "You cannot go wrong!"


created: 2022-08-11 05:53:30.963558+00
last_modified: 2022-08-13 03:31:48.870862+00
name: Praha Matka Měst
ucname: PRAHA MATKA MEST
intensity_bars: 800/888/844/808
devised: 2019-04-01
notes:
  Devised by Nicolas “Niols” Jeannerod in Prague in April 2019. The title translates to “Prague, Mother of Cities” and refers to Prague's motto during the twentieth century. It was a symbol of the mission of Prague to protect the independence and prosperity of the Czecho-Slovakian state.


created: 2019-01-29 23:06:34.402298+00
last_modified: 2022-08-08 16:03:43.997066+00
name: Noethersche Ring, Der
ucname: NOETHERSCHE RING
intensity_bars: 888/888/840/888
devised: 1999-11-19
notes:
  Dedicated to the 1999-2000 Erlangen Scottish Country Dancers.

  Written in honor of the mathematician Emmy Noether (born March 23, 1882 in Erlangen - died April 14, 1935 in Bryn Mawr), who loved to dance.


created: 2022-08-10 23:10:35.003024+00
last_modified: 2022-08-11 07:14:47.439136+00
name: Mall in St. James's Park, The
ucname: MALL IN ST JAMESS PARK
intensity_bars: 800/822/888/808
devised: 2018-01-01
notes:
  Devised by Nicolas “Niols” Jeannerod in 2018. The name was suggested by Christophe Schuwey in reference to the painting of the same name by Thomas Gainsborough.


created: 2011-08-26 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-08-13 20:18:08.903219+00
name: Lady of Wishaw
ucname: LADY OF WISHAW
intensity_bars: 8448/8448/8888/8888
notes:
  Dedicated to May Loudon, much loved dancer and teacher of the Gleneagles SCD Club in West Vancouver on the occasion of her seventieth birthday. May grew up in Wishaw in Scotland.


created: 2022-08-10 18:10:19.696731+00
last_modified: 2022-09-18 21:42:20.732696+00
name: Wee Journey, A
ucname: WEE JOURNEY
devised: 2022-07-01
notes:
  This dance is written as a gift for Rachel Shankland and George Meikle that took such good care of us during our Units 2 and 3. The changes of direction give many opportunities for the men to flash their underwear as the RSCDS demands for Unit 2.


created: 2022-08-07 19:44:52.345767+00
last_modified: 2023-06-23 21:19:24.084623+00
name: Creagan Ruadh
ucname: CREAGAN RUADH
intensity_bars: 880/800/822/844
devised: 2004-01-01
notes:
  This may also be danced as a reel.  

  For Margaret Gowan with thanks for all her patience & perseverance with the Kintail Ceilidh & Country Dance Group


created: 2003-09-22 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-12-17 13:22:47.426148+00
name: Magic Dishpan, The
ucname: MAGIC DISHPAN
intensity_bars: 8888/8080/8888/4848
devised: 2002-04-01
notes:
  A different version of this dance had been published by Sue McKinnell on her web site.  This was a 4x32 Jig in square formation and contained some of the same figures.  

  In *The Lost Princess of Oz*, Cayke the Cookie Cook has her magic dishpan stolen. Ugu the shoemaker uses it to steal the all the magic he can from the inhabitants of Oz (including Ozma of Oz) (*Sue McKinnell*).


created: 1997-04-03 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-08-11 13:27:14.965278+00
name: Alloway
ucname: ALLOWAY
intensity_bars: 888/888/844/888
notes:
  To Elizabeth, who introduced me to the lasting pleasure of Scottish Counntry Dancing, - when in Bristol, 1947, she started a class with a few members of St. Oswals's Church.


created: 1998-10-18 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-08-11 14:43:15.527858+00
name: Bonnie Woods o' Craigielea, The
ucname: BONNIE WOODS O CRAIGIELEA
intensity_bars: 800/888/888/888/888/844/844/888
notes:
  Note from the instructions: to get to the bottom from third place the original first couple should set and cast off on the first four bars of the next repeat.


created: 1998-11-14 23:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-08-11 14:55:49.356418+00
name: Fiddler on the Capstan, The
ucname: FIDDLER ON THE CAPSTAN
devised: 1981-01-01
notes:
  Inscribed "for Herb Carl of Albany, California".

  The notes explain that "While he was at St. Andrews in July 1981, Herb Carl had a dream. Mary Stoker was teaching her class to dance "The New-Rigged Ship" on the deck of the Victory in Portsmouth Harbour. As usual, she was cracking her vhip and urging them to extra effort. Music for the dancing was supplied by a fiddler vho stood on the centre of the capstan while the class danced round him."


created: 1997-08-31 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-08-11 15:04:02.867229+00
name: Cadger's Bridge, The
ucname: CADGERS BRIDGE
notes:
  The dance notes explain that "The Cadger's Bridge crosses the Biggar Burn at the west end of the main street of Biggar. William Wallace is said to have crossed the bridge disguised as a cadger (hawker or carrier) before defeating Edward I in a battle to the south-east of the town."


created: 1997-09-01 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-08-11 23:12:50.562439+00
name: Dee's Dandy Dance
ucname: DEES DANDY DANCE
intensity_bars: 44/44/88/88
notes:
  If the name sounds like something out of a nineteenth-century medicine show , that's intentional.
  This dance was devised as a dance that even the rankest beginners would not be able to foul up,
  and so far it has lived up to those hopes. That's why it carries no designation as reel, jig,
  strathspey or medley -- it can be (and has been) used as any one of them, as the need arises.
  Often it is done with just a skipping step. That doesn't matter; its purpose is to give beginners a 
  sense of accomplishment, the satisfaction of having done a dance right, as early in the first lesson
  as possible (although more experienced dancers have been known to enjoy it too).


created: 1998-04-12 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-08-12 09:12:46.232823+00
name: Magic Moments
ucname: MAGIC MOMENTS
intensity_bars: 444444/444444/800008/888888
devised: 1990-01-01
notes:
  This is a 3 x 32 dance; all dancers end diagonally opposite their starting point (6,5,4,3x,2x,1x).  If danced 6 times through, all finish in own places.

  In the original 1990 version, published in "Brock Summer Celebration", bars [25-32] had "6c+1c turn RH, turn LH".
  The current version, published in "Canada's Irish Rover", bars [25-32] have "All Circle12 and back".


created: 1997-04-03 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-08-12 11:07:17.642515+00
name: Norma's Tune
ucname: NORMAS TUNE
intensity_bars: 73/84/88/88
notes:
  Editor’s note to the 2021 edition.

  The cross with left hand in bars 1-2 is a suggested alternative to the original instructions. These are included here for completeness, yet it is a long way for the first man in two bars.

  1-2 First man casts off and crosses to second lady’s place whilst second lady crosses to first man’s place.


created: 1998-01-05 23:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-08-12 11:38:57.380786+00
name: Saint Andrew's Flag
ucname: SAINT ANDREWS FLAG
intensity_bars: 880/800/888/880
notes:
  Sheila writes:  I use this dance when introducing double triangles as most dances containing this formation have a preceeding movement which results in a confused entry into double triangles.


created: 2022-08-12 09:04:02.722405+00
last_modified: 2022-08-12 09:20:17.561358+00
name: Waves, The
ucname: WAVES
intensity_bars: 800/880/844/808
devised: 2022-08-01
notes:
  Devised by Saskia Frisby and inspired by the waves in the sea around St. Andrews. For Rachel Shankland and George Meikle, with heartfelt thanks for their kindness towards and patience with the Units 2/3 class of 2022.


created: 1997-04-03 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-08-12 11:43:18.184281+00
name: Sea Caves, The
ucname: SEA CAVES
intensity_bars: 80800 88888 80800 48488
notes:
  The Sea Caves refer to the many caves in the coastal cliffs at Wemyss. "Wemyss" is apparently gaelic for caves. (Source: Southern Stars Book, where the dance is published)


created: 2000-04-03 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-08-13 11:03:56.664952+00
name: Amy in the Middle
ucname: AMY IN THE MIDDLE
devised: 1999-01-01
notes:
  The notes explain that "In 1998, Amy Chlebecek hurt her ankle and was unable to dance rounds. Instead, she look jumping into the middle of the set from whatever position she was dancing, and letting the other couples dance around her. Someone suggested writing a dance called 'Amy in the Middle', so I did."


created: 2022-08-09 11:25:27.414453+00
last_modified: 2022-08-13 09:04:57.433252+00
name: Cro of Kintail
ucname: CRO OF KINTAIL
intensity_bars: 8800/8000/8000/8888
notes:
  The River Cro slowly meanders down the glaciated valley of Glen Lichd flowing into Loch Beag and under the
  causeway into Loch Duich.  
  The river is named after the 'cro' of Kintail where the mountains encircle the low level ground near Morvich
  as a fold would encircle & protect sheep.  
  It would be lovely to dance this simple strathspey to the tune of Ian MacMhurachaidh's song “Theid mi dhachaidh Chro Cintaille” - “I will go home to the fold of Kintail”.


created: 2000-03-09 23:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-08-13 09:14:12.371431+00
name: Wheels Around The World
ucname: WHEELS AROUND THE WORLD
intensity_bars: 4444/4444/8080/0808/8888
notes:
  This dance was devised by a class at a Special School so that children in wheelchairs would be able to take part. (Teacher Mrs M Barlow).


created: 1999-04-19 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-08-13 10:50:21.116935+00
name: Barnes' of Washington, The
ucname: BARNES OF WASHINGTON
devised: 1996-03-01
notes:
  Inscribed "Devised by Christopher Bames. To commemorate the golden wedding anniversary of his parents Duard and Betty Lee Barnes in March 1996."


created: 2002-07-21 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-08-13 12:14:41.888641+00
name: Fiddlin' Round
ucname: FIDDLIN ROUND
intensity_bars: 800/844/800/888
devised: 1998-01-01
notes:
  The San Francisco Branch has been blessed to have so many fine fiddlers play for balls and monthly parties. This dance is a tribute to their dedication and to many years of listening and dancing pleasure (Bob McMurtry).

  May be danced as a reel or a jig.

  Contributed crib supplied by Bruce Clark.


created: 2002-07-21 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-08-13 12:19:54.945107+00
name: Halsway Anniversary
ucname: HALSWAY ANNIVERSARY
devised: 1996-01-01
notes:
  Devised in 1996 by Peter Wright for the South Dorset Caledonian Society's 21st Week-end at Halsway Manor. The tune was written by their "resident musician", Hugh Ferguson.


created: 2002-07-24 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-08-13 14:15:41.320161+00
name: Gentle Lads and Lassies, The
ucname: GENTLE LADS AND LASSIES
intensity_bars: 888/888/888/866
notes:
  On those nights when only two dancers show up, I think teachers will welcome this three person dance.


created: 2004-09-16 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-08-13 14:18:35.868591+00
name: Colwyn's Ruby Reel
ucname: COLWYNS RUBY REEL
devised: 2002-12-01
notes:
  Inscribed "For Colwyn Bay, Llandudno and District Caledonian Society on their fortieth anniversary."


created: 1997-04-03 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-08-13 17:08:30.509655+00
name: Carlisle Castle
ucname: CARLISLE CASTLE
intensity_bars: 680 804 840 880 888
devised: 1967-01-01
notes:
  Two of Bonnie Prince Charlie's men were captured and left behind in Carlisle after the failed rising of 1745. One young soldier was to be executed, the other released. The Spirit of the dead soldier travelling by the 'low road' would reach Scotland before his comrade, who would be struggling along the actual road over high, rugged country.


created: 2013-10-14 22:30:50.365036+00
last_modified: 2022-08-13 20:26:59.233706+00
name: Jig for Ayla, A
ucname: JIG FOR AYLA
notes:
  The notes say this was "devised by Ayla Huseyinoglu (age 9), Darlington Juniors. I like the petronella movement, and slip steps as well as skip change."


created: 2014-05-09 21:55:37.862568+00
last_modified: 2022-08-13 20:28:55.693726+00
name: New Year Wedding
ucname: NEW YEAR WEDDING
intensity_bars: 808/080/080/088
devised: 2011-01-01
notes:
  This dance is dedicated to Emily Ziccarelli and Jesse Adams in celebration of their marriage December 31, 2011.
  <p>1-8 First Glances
  <br>9-16 The Chase
  <br>17-24 The Courtship
  <br>25-32 The Wedding


created: 2018-10-06 13:43:29.577718+00
last_modified: 2022-08-13 21:32:21.330754+00
name: Passing Fancy, A
ucname: PASSING FANCY
devised: 2012-09-01
notes:
  I love playing with variations of dance figures and the bourrel is one of my favorites. I decided to see if I could make up a 4-couple version.


created: 2007-09-11 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-08-14 08:13:03.738632+00
name: High Peak
ucname: HIGH PEAK
devised: 2007-01-01
notes:
  From the notes: "Devised by Evalyn and Ernst Eder in April 2007 for the first formal dance of the Madoma Group to celebrate its 25th season of dancing. This easier dance was devised to be coupled with '<<ddd:Kinder Scout>>' on the dance programme."


created: 2011-08-22 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-08-14 08:27:45.737809+00
name: Colourful Character
ucname: COLOURFUL CHARACTER
intensity_bars: 880/886/888/888
devised: 2004-04-01
notes:
  Devised by Terry Lynne Harris, Pretoria, April 2004.

  Written for Martin Sheffield, with happy memories of attending his first SCD Holiday near Grenoble, France, 16-23 June 2003. Martin is a colourful character, unconventional, "slightly eccentric" (his own words on his web-site), and exudes enthusiasm and energy. Dancing with him was a joy! 


created: 2011-08-22 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-08-14 08:30:41.501922+00
name: Hamba Kahle
ucname: HAMBA KAHLE
intensity_bars: 660/880/888/844
devised: 2006-03-01
notes:
  Devised by Irene van Maarseveen. Pretoria. March 2006.  

  This dance is dedicated to Elma Mccausland and Margo Monteith. It commemorates Elma 's visit to South Africa in August 2006. The title, Hamb a Kahle, is a widely-used Zulu farewell which means Go Well. It is pronounced with "a" as in "ah", "h" aspirated, and "e" as in "bed", each word having two syllables, thus: "ham-ba ka-hle''. 


created: 2012-09-13 16:03:11.198592+00
last_modified: 2022-08-14 08:53:58.768594+00
name: Saturday Market
ucname: SATURDAY MARKET
intensity_bars: 800/800/800/888
devised: 2010-03-01
notes:
  A good dance for exploring different kinds of figures of eight.

  Vancouver, WA has a lovely Weekend Farmer’s Market, but you have to get there early on Saturday to get the hydroponic lettuce. 1st couple practically run over each other getting ready for the market (bars 1-4), travel to the market (bars 5-8), and wander among the stalls looking for the best prices, the best produce, and the beautiful lettuce (bars 9-24). They got there in time to get the last one, and celebrate with a circle round and back!


created: 2013-01-22 00:01:34.824147+00
last_modified: 2022-08-14 10:12:48.993317+00
name: Reel for Miss Donaghue
ucname: REEL FOR MISS DONAGHUE
intensity_bars: 800 880 804
notes:
  Note: The deviser was 6 y old.  This becomes a more attractive dance by adding 25-32: Circle6 and back.


created: 2013-05-27 16:39:03.7839+00
last_modified: 2022-08-14 10:29:39.842965+00
name: Mairrit at Last
ucname: MAIRRIT AT LAST
intensity_bars: 840/888/888/
devised: 2001-01-01
notes:
  My wife and I dated in the 70s, but then broke up for 17 years. This dance was part of our wedding celebration in 1999 and represents various aspects:  the first 8 bars represent the diamond ring with which I engaged her, the reels chronicle our parallel lives while apart, the chase is self-explanatory, I hope, the Double Triangles represent our sharing the news with friends and the Promenade is the wedding. 


created: 2013-10-14 10:21:48.121646+00
last_modified: 2022-08-14 10:41:09.162503+00
name: Mortimer's Jig
ucname: MORTIMERS JIG
notes:
  Deviser aged 9.

  The instructions have the title "Mortimer's Jig" but say its a 32 bar reel for three couples though only two couples are dancing. SCDDB has it as a jig. It is not clear if this was the intention. 


created: 2015-01-20 11:55:03.309886+00
last_modified: 2022-08-14 11:50:18.821945+00
name: Salute to St Andrew, A
ucname: SALUTE TO ST ANDREW
devised: 2003-11-01
notes:
  Any good reel

  such as "Dirk Kommer's Reel" played by Marian Anderson on "Bordering On Scottish" CD - TRCD9905


created: 2015-02-27 18:10:37.385628+00
last_modified: 2022-08-14 15:08:07.848976+00
name: Dance o da Shetland Puffins
ucname: DANCE O DA SHETLAND PUFFINS
intensity_bars: 80/80/88/88
devised: 2006-09-15
notes:
  Suggested music: "Dance o da Shetland Puffins" on Da Fustra, Dance o da Shetland Puffins.

  The dance notes say this was devised while listening to that CD and looking at the drawings of puffins doing a very energetic left hand tum.


created: 2015-04-24 07:59:41.147646+00
last_modified: 2022-08-14 15:13:26.671912+00
name: Kelly's Kaper
ucname: KELLYS KAPER
intensity_bars: 800/888/880/800
devised: 2015-04-01
notes:
  Written for STV Appeal Big Challenge.  This is the revised version of 27 April 2015.

  Note: on the RSCDS website this dance was first erroneously stated to be a 3C/4L dance, with progression (2,1,3). Unfortunately the new RSCDS website has broken the old link (https://www.rscds.org/article/stv-appeal).


created: 2022-08-09 11:26:12.57384+00
last_modified: 2022-08-17 08:53:22.488182+00
name: Sisters, The
ucname: SISTERS
intensity_bars: 80608/08680/88888/88888
notes:
  The ridge of mountains on the north side of Glen Shiel known as the Five Sisters of Kintail are named after the legendary princesses who stand waiting, looking out over the loch for their husbands-to-be to come from Ireland after the youngest sister was only allowed to leave for Ireland with her suitor on condition that his five brothers returned to marry her five older sisters.


created: 2021-04-06 21:36:30.499405+00
last_modified: 2022-08-18 09:16:55.801062+00
name: Millennium Jig
ucname: MILLENNIUM JIG
intensity_bars: 80008/08880/80008/80000
devised: 2000-01-01
notes:
  Source <<https://www.scottish-country-dancing-dictionary.com/dance-crib/millennium-jig-2.html>> and <<https://youtu.be/RyPv-5kbRYk|youtube video>>.


created: 2022-08-23 12:27:29.736724+00
last_modified: 2022-08-23 12:27:29.736724+00
name: Just Keep Dancing
ucname: JUST KEEP DANCING
devised: 2018-05-01
notes:
  With all the heat and all the pain in my hip and knee, the best medicine is to keep dancing (gently).


created: 2016-01-18 15:22:44.509509+00
last_modified: 2022-08-14 21:32:25.888353+00
name: Fisherman Ginger's Reel
ucname: FISHERMAN GINGERS REEL
intensity_bars: 800/844/844/888
devised: 2001-01-01
notes:
  Devisers’ Notes: 

  Bars 9-24 

  In the rotating reel (as a corner dancer) be sure after passing right shoulder to first woman or man that you keep RIGHT to dance the rotation. First couple also need to be generous with their phrasing and allow the corner dancers to have the space to complete the rotation, there is plenty of time for first couple to complete their part of this formation. 

  Bars 25-32 

  If this is proving a mission with your group, the alternative is to dance 6 hands round and back. 

  Again with this dance as with Dave Macfarlane's Reel after the second time through the original 1st couple stay in third place and move down on 3-4 of the second repeat. Shown on the You Tube Clip. 


  This dance was devised to celebrate the 40th birthday of Brian (Ginger) Richards. Brian's three great passions are Jenny Richards (his wife), Scottish country Dancing and Fishing (not necessarily in that order!). Jenny asked us to devise this dance and put in movements that Brian loves. 

  The movements in this dance represent the collection of the boat (1-8), the throwing out of the first line (9-12), a tiddler escaping (13-16, where the corners return safely home), and then the big catch (28) which is hauled aboard (29-32). 

  The formations we have used were obvious to us. when you have seen Brian's enthusiasm and the way he has introduced these movements into other dances, they are logical choices. 

  Devised by Gaye & Damon Collin 2001 10


created: 2016-09-14 23:02:40.664129+00
last_modified: 2022-08-15 08:37:07.425066+00
name: Finishing Touches
ucname: FINISHING TOUCHES
intensity_bars: 800/800/866/888
devised: 2007-03-01
notes:
  Devised for the Hamilton Workshop, March 2007.  

  The theme was "Finish a STEP, Finish a PHRASE, Finish a DANCE".


created: 2017-04-01 19:44:00.978235+00
last_modified: 2022-08-15 08:49:50.480957+00
name: Borderland Jig
ucname: BORDERLAND JIG
devised: 2016-07-01
notes:
  Devised in July 2016. In the middle section (bars 9 - 16), the two lines of dancers confront a border which 
  prevents them from meeting. By the end, however, all obstacles are overcome and they are able to join hands and dance together.


created: 2021-12-03 22:09:10.423092+00
last_modified: 2022-08-15 09:07:06.522396+00
name: Madge Wildfire's Strathspey
ucname: MADGE WILDFIRES STRATHSPEY
intensity_bars: 888/888/844/800
notes:
  Originally published in 1820 by John Sutherland, Edinburgh in a booklet linked to Sir Walter Scott's novel The Heart of Midlothian. Madge Wildfire is a character in this novel.  Reconstructed by the RSCDS in 2021 to mark the 250th anniversary of Sir Walter Scott's birth.

  The RSCDS has previously published a different reconstruction of this dance in Book 9  <<https://my.strathspey.org/dd/dance/4064/>>


created: 2017-12-19 22:15:15.23956+00
last_modified: 2022-08-15 11:14:51.989656+00
name: Tinto Hill
ucname: TINTO HILL
notes:
  Suitable Music The Golden Pheasant

  Tinto Hill reaches at  height of 2,320 feet. The hill lies close to the village of Symington in Lanarkshire, Scotland


created: 2019-06-01 12:46:22.26772+00
last_modified: 2022-08-15 11:42:22.841983+00
name: Jacquy's Jig
ucname: JACQUYS JIG
intensity_bars: 8448/8888/8888/8888
notes:
  Slow jig (can also be done as a strathspey).

  To Jacquy, my wife, who has been a huge support in running my classes for many years.


created: 2019-06-01 16:57:28.454842+00
last_modified: 2022-08-15 11:48:29.719482+00
name: Frog on the Mantle, The
ucname: FROG ON THE MANTLE
intensity_bars: 800/888/877/855
notes:
  This dance revises the infamous candidate dance <<ddd:Frog in the Middle>>. I find the tune fantastic and the dance, well, lacking.  
  The frogs on the mantle belong to Alfred and Eleanor Hurd, whose home has hosted many social dances, and classes and who use frogs to mark the sets. This dance is written for them, and for our candidate class tutors, Geoffrey Selling and Jill Emery.


created: 2019-09-16 00:59:13.514199+00
last_modified: 2022-08-15 13:27:21.695989+00
name: David's Box
ucname: DAVIDS BOX
intensity_bars: 88/88/80/88
devised: 2010-01-01
notes:
  This dance was devised by Sandee Schultz to teach rights and lefts. Bars 17-32 can be varied if need be.  

  The dance is named for David Newitt, who uses this method of teaching rights and lefts as an exercise.


created: 2020-02-28 11:25:05.1234+00
last_modified: 2022-08-15 13:49:09.535643+00
name: Christiane's Ceilidh
ucname: CHRISTIANES CEILIDH
intensity_bars: 888/844/888/888
notes:
  The dance was written for Christiane Orgeret, a talented and friendly dancer who celebrated her 60th birthday in Lyon with a dance held in the Château De Montchat, Lyon.


created: 2021-04-05 09:08:49.304509+00
last_modified: 2022-08-15 14:09:06.934763+00
name: Eeeasy
ucname: EEEASY
intensity_bars: 8008/8888/8008/8448
notes:
  Arnold Thurling has been teaching at the Wollongong White Heather group for half a century. After teaching then recapping a dance he would inevitably declare it as “Eeeasy”. Usually we got through it too.


created: 2021-04-16 16:53:51.35057+00
last_modified: 2022-08-15 14:11:15.294152+00
name: Jig with Alexandra, A
ucname: JIG WITH ALEXANDRA
devised: 2020-01-01
notes:
  Alexandra, a Méaudre Reel (France) dancer started dancing SCD in 2016 when she was 6.  

  After 5 years of dancing, she offered to her school mistress, Sophie Marchand, an easy dance for the Méaudre Reel « little ones ». The beginners' class could dance Alexandra's dance once and it was planned to be danced officially for the Méaudre Reel end of the year show in May 2020, but the Covid decided otherwise !


created: 2015-05-30 18:22:46.363803+00
last_modified: 2022-08-15 17:25:12.522994+00
name: Weaver's Bonnie, The
ucname: WEAVERS BONNIE
devised: 2011-01-01
notes:
  NB bars 17-28 of the instructions for this dance in the PDF on the MiniCrib site were truncated in the original version (now fixed). They should read:

  17-28 TEAPOTS INTO DOWN MIDDLE & BACK: 1st couple dance 3-hands across, 1st man with
  2nd & 3rd women, 1st woman with 2nd & 3rd men, then dance down middle followed by 2nd & 3rd
  couples; and return up the middle 1st followed by 2nd and 3rd couples who separate to let 1st, then 2nd 
  couple through;


created: 2021-07-30 12:51:57.207827+00
last_modified: 2022-08-16 10:05:56.646959+00
name: Sound Man, The
ucname: SOUND MAN
intensity_bars: 844/888/844/804
notes:
  In memory of our friend Mr John H. Hutton - sound engineer and a man of the highest integrity - a Sound Man in every way.  

  Dance devised by Patricia and John Cass with help from the Thursday Afternoon Class and sold in aid of St Benedict's Hospice, Sunderland.


created: 2022-03-27 21:10:48.230828+00
last_modified: 2022-08-17 10:18:53.195749+00
name: Open The Doors!
ucname: OPEN THE DOORS
intensity_bars: 800/888/800/880
notes:
  Inspired by Morgan's poem: "For The Opening of the Scottish Parliament, 9 October 2004"

  The name of the dance is taken from the opening line and of the tune from the last. The dance is suitable for the opening of a Scottish Dance programme allowing dancers of any age or ability to join in. The music highlights the joy and optimism of the poem, with some descending musical reference to mimic Morgan's trip, "down the mile, into the heart of the city". There is occasional syncopation to interrupt the flow, suggesting the political missteps that Morgan warns against.


created: 2006-12-11 23:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-08-17 18:38:46.716766+00
name: Eleanor's Strathspey
ucname: ELEANORS STRATHSPEY
devised: 2006-01-01
notes:
  Carl Dickson dedicates this dance to Eleanor Reed Searle, a family friend who died three and a half months before her eightieth birthday. Eleanor was a swing dancer, not a Scottish Country Dancer. However, she knew of and supported his passion for SCD. She was also a devoted wife, mother, grandmother, avid watercolorist, and gardener. As a committed volunteer she was dedicated to human rights, low-income housing, civil rights and welfare reform and served on many committees and boards in her homes states of Massachusetts and Maine. She received several honors and awards for her hard work.


created: 2018-09-09 21:41:00.930615+00
last_modified: 2022-08-17 21:06:44.613739+00
name: Wookiee Walk, The
ucname: WOOKIEE WALK
intensity_bars: 888/644/888/888
devised: 2014-04-01
notes:
  This dance is one of two written especially for a Star Wars themed dance night.

  Although the Star Wars character was a "Wookiee" with double E, the deviser originally used "Wookie" with one E in her title which is therefore the spelling used in the database.

  Subsequently the deviser's web page was updated so now the official name and alias are swapped.


created: 2022-07-06 23:36:48.007618+00
last_modified: 2022-08-29 06:37:41.840452+00
name: Strawberry Picking
ucname: STRAWBERRY PICKING
intensity_bars: 844/888/888/888
notes:
  From the dance notes:  
  *The dance was devised during wild strawberry gathering in summer.*  
  *1-4 entry into the strawberry glade*  
  *5-16 strawberry gathering into small jars*  
  *17-24 pouring strawberries from the jars into a large buckets 25-32 bringing the harvest home*  


created: 2000-09-21 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-08-18 09:02:31.957904+00
name: Belfast Hornpipe, The
ucname: BELFAST HORNPIPE
intensity_bars: 440 448 800 804
devised: 1989-01-01
notes:
  A variant, created inadvertently by Mel Briscoe, has now been given its own name "<<ddd:Wes Clindinning's Hornpipe>>" as it has become popular in its own right (see there for more information).

  The dance denoted as "Belfast Hornpipe (New Way)" at <<https://dances.e-cribs.org/var/Cincinnati_Demo_Dances_2007-2008.pdf>> (there also attributed to Mel Briscoe) is not identically to either of the two dances above. However, all three dances only differ in bars [25-32].  


created: 1999-12-21 23:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-08-18 09:08:10.940916+00
name: Virginia Reel
ucname: VIRGINIA REEL
intensity_bars: 8888 8888 8888 8000 8888
notes:
  Walking step (this is a ceilidh dance)

  Set can be 4 couples or more. 

  Collected by Mary Stoker

  Music: any good hoe down.


created: 2010-10-07 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-08-18 09:14:02.187614+00
name: Spinnaker Tower, The
ucname: SPINNAKER TOWER
intensity_bars: 888 800 888 888 888
notes:
  In the original description 2c stepped up on [15-16]; the author, Kathy Lawmon, now writes "After publishing it in a book of dances called Dancing in Southsea, I realised myself when teaching it that it was better to step up on bars 11-12."


created: 1997-04-03 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-08-18 20:57:11.347459+00
name: Five Sisters, The
ucname: FIVE SISTERS
notes:
  "Devised for Catherine Espie, a long-time member of Downpatrick class, who now lives in Letterfearn where she enjoys the view of the near-by Five Sisters."


created: 1997-04-03 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-08-18 21:09:15.375123+00
name: Kay Armstrong's Delight
ucname: KAY ARMSTRONGS DELIGHT
notes:
  "Inscribed to Kay Armstrong for her eightieth birthday, who is an example to us all with her enthusiasm and pleasure in our national dancing."


created: 2000-04-05 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-08-18 21:24:23.932268+00
name: Mrs Stewart of Fasnacloich
ucname: MRS STEWART OF FASNACLOICH
intensity_bars: 880/888/844/888
devised: 1973-01-01
notes:
  This is one of a suite of three dances published in 1973 to commemorate the Golden Jubilee of the Society, 1923 -1973. Mrs. Stewart of Fasnacloich was the co-founder of the Society with Miss Milligan.

  John Drewry wrote this note for his dance "<<ddd:Ysobel#7265>>": "This dance, devised in 1973, was used by the Publication's Committee in that year as the basis for the reel "Mrs Stewart of Fasnacloich" - a dance which has always disappointed me - I do not like left shoulder reels of four and I think that setting should come at the beginning of a phrase rather than at the end. My feeling, for a long time, has been that Mrs. Stewart was never the same woman again after she was interfered with by the committee! I am publishing the dance in its original form in the hope that dancers will enjoy it this way."


created: 1997-09-11 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-08-19 08:33:50.222191+00
name: Phyllis's Fancy
ucname: PHYLLISS FANCY
notes:
  Inscribed "For Phyllis Wood, for eleven years class teacher of Sutton Coldfield Scottish Country Dance Society."


created: 2006-09-02 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-08-19 09:03:13.792229+00
name: Sailor Hector
ucname: SAILOR HECTOR
intensity_bars: 7777/8448/8448/0880
devised: 2006-01-01
notes:
  A modified version of this dance, in which the final 8 bars were completely changed, was published in 2013 keeping the name "Sailor Hector".  To avoid confusion the new version has now (Jan 2017) been renamed "The Naughty Child".  This database entry shows the original "Sailor Hector".  "<<ddd:Naughty Child, The#17539>>" appears as separate dance on the database.


created: 2017-01-15 23:21:03.876269+00
last_modified: 2022-08-19 09:27:47.475089+00
name: Naughty Child, The
ucname: NAUGHTY CHILD
intensity_bars: 7777/8448/8448/4444
devised: 2013-01-01
notes:
  This dance was derived from "Sailor Hector" (2006), differing only for bars 25-32.  This dance was first published in 2013 keeping the name "Sailor Hector", but to remove the confusion of two different dances with the same name it has now (Jan 2017) been renamed to "The Naughty Child".   This database now shows both dances separately.


created: 1997-12-28 23:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-08-20 08:21:49.970009+00
name: Three Times on Sunday
ucname: THREE TIMES ON SUNDAY
devised: 1997-01-01
notes:
  From the dance notes:

  "I read a story about a Kirk that employed an organ blower in the 1800s. The membership at Garturk Parish Church on Calder Street in Whiftlet, Lanarkshire, was around 750. Apparently it was very strenuous work and demanded pumping the hand bellows three times every Sunday - 12:00 noon service, 3:00 p.m. Senior Bible Class, and 6:00 p.m. evening service - also any week-night services. Once during the sermon he fell asleep. When the next hymn was announced the organist started to play but no sound came out, so the organist had to pop round behind the curtain to wake him up. After that, during the sermon, he had to sit in front of the organ and face the congregation. The bellows were still in use in 1974 when there was a power failure during a storm or an electrical fault."


created: 1998-10-18 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-08-20 08:29:29.085725+00
name: Bonnie Band o' Gold, The
ucname: BONNIE BAND O GOLD
devised: 1983-07-01
notes:
  Cy Chapman of the 1982-83 beginners' class composed this dance to celebrate the wedding of fellow members, Rebecca Beddoes and Rory McAlpine, July 1983.


created: 1997-09-02 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-08-20 17:53:08.339054+00
name: Fredericton Welcome
ucname: FREDERICTON WELCOME
devised: 1981-11-01
notes:
  This dance was created immediately after (he Fredericton Scottish Country Dance Group's tenrh annual weekend workshop to thank the host group and to keep the driver alert on the journey home to Cambridge, Massachusetts.


created: 2003-11-29 23:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-08-20 19:51:28.651815+00
name: Jan Finlayson's Jig
ucname: JAN FINLAYSONS JIG
devised: 1997-01-01
notes:
  "Devised to mark Jan Finlayson's three years as President of Kamo Scottish Country Dance Club. In grateful recognition of a job well done."


created: 2019-10-05 00:00:23.325446+00
last_modified: 2022-08-22 23:09:21.512885+00
name: Grandpa Squeezebox
ucname: GRANDPA SQUEEZEBOX
intensity_bars: 886/844/888/888
devised: 2019-09-01
notes:
  <<ddp:#1862|Mike Briggs>> played piano and accordion for the Madison SCD Branch for years. Sadly he left us this year in August. His <<https://editor.freethoughttoday.com/free/in-memoriam-mike-briggs/|obituary>> mentioned he was called Grandpa Squeezebox by his grandchildren.  

  Suggested music is Two and Two from Music for RSCDS Book 19 (Ron Kerr Quintet).


created: 2022-08-21 18:26:06.181117+00
last_modified: 2022-08-21 22:56:29.217189+00
name: Shimmering Flamingos
ucname: SHIMMERING FLAMINGOS
intensity_bars: 8888/6262/8888/8888
devised: 2021-01-01
notes:
  The title comes from endless walks around odd corners of my local neighbourhood during Covid lockdowns. An architecturally uninspiring housing estate is adorned with some striking murals. One of these is a surreal adaptation of Wordsworth's famous "I wandered lonely as a cloud" poem where the "golden daffodils" are replaced by "shimmering flamingos".


created: 2022-08-21 18:26:39.917289+00
last_modified: 2022-08-21 22:59:05.960764+00
name: Editor Emeritus, The
ucname: EDITOR EMERITUS
intensity_bars: 0880/0880/8888/8888
devised: 2020-06-01
notes:
  This dance is dedicated to Eric Ferguson who has worked tirelessly for the international Scottish Country Dance community for several decades. His contributions include writing thousands of “E-cribs” and maintaining and adding to the contents of the Scottish Country Dance Database. He has always been ready to offer a helping hand to others by sharing his expertise or making quick database updates. The extra hand holds in this dance are a symbol of that.


created: 2022-08-23 11:24:11.018353+00
last_modified: 2022-08-23 11:24:11.018353+00
name: First Robin of Spring, The
ucname: FIRST ROBIN OF SPRING
devised: 2018-03-01
notes:
  I wanted to play with the Best Set in the Hall figure and came up with this. Note that in bars 21-28 1C is dancing Inveran reels. Written after I heard the first robin of spring in the yard.


created: 2022-08-23 11:43:04.288124+00
last_modified: 2022-08-23 11:43:04.288124+00
name: Shadow Double Knitting
ucname: SHADOW DOUBLE KNITTING
devised: 2018-03-01
notes:
  These figures remind me of the double knitting technique, which I used in a pattern I made up combining shadow knitting with double knitting.


created: 2022-08-23 11:51:35.551353+00
last_modified: 2022-08-23 11:51:35.551353+00
name: Twisted Triangle
ucname: TWISTED TRIANGLE
devised: 2018-04-01
notes:
  I had an idea that one could make a triangle in a regular set and started playing with it. I also had a request for a 3-couple targe and this is what I came up with.


created: 2022-08-23 12:13:56.032795+00
last_modified: 2022-08-23 12:13:56.032795+00
name: Loop de Loop
ucname: LOOP DE LOOP
devised: 2018-04-01
notes:
  The idea for the figure in bars 1-16 occurred to me along with the phrase loop-de-loop so I wrote this dance.


created: 2022-08-23 12:37:22.386479+00
last_modified: 2022-08-23 12:37:22.386479+00
name: Tuxedo Cat
ucname: TUXEDO CAT
devised: 2018-05-01
notes:
  For our black and white tuxedo cat Harrington who started out shy and is now as demanding and demonstrative as our other cats – after only 10 years.


created: 2022-08-23 12:45:54.430324+00
last_modified: 2022-08-23 12:45:54.430324+00
name: Ghosts of Cape Horn, The
ucname: GHOSTS OF CAPE HORN
devised: 2018-06-01
notes:
  Named for a favorite Gordon Lightfoot song. Note that this could be a 3-couple set dance if the last figure is 6-bar reels across the set, then 1C dance down the center and face out to begin the double figure of 8.


created: 2022-08-23 12:51:00.007227+00
last_modified: 2022-08-23 12:51:00.007227+00
name: Farfalle
ucname: FARFALLE
devised: 2018-06-01
notes:
  Farfalle is bow-tied shaped pasta and the figures in this dance are all bow ties. Also, farfalle means butterflies and we have Monarch butterflies in our yard.


created: 2001-10-23 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-08-25 21:22:42.814031+00
name: Vanessa
ucname: VANESSA
intensity_bars: 888/888/880/888
devised: 2000-01-01
notes:
  Drewry writes that Vanessa is the old Hittite name for Avanos which is a town in the Cappadocia region of central Turkey. It is on the banks of the Red River and is famous for high grade pottery and carpets.


created: 2022-04-15 15:55:09.646651+00
last_modified: 2022-08-29 07:05:49.720139+00
name: Winter Has Come, The
ucname: WINTER HAS COME
intensity_bars: 888/844/888/688
devised: 2021-01-01
notes:
  From the dance notes:  
  *The dance represents the image on the crest and flag of the Chuvash Republic:*  
  *bars 1-4 - lower branches of the Tree of Life*  
  *bars 5-8 - middle branches of the Tree*  
  *bars 17-20 - upper branches of the Tree*  
  *bars 29-32 - the three suns above the Tree of Life*  


created: 2022-08-29 03:52:01.077898+00
last_modified: 2022-08-29 04:36:50.681485+00
name: Waltz Hold Poussette Medley
ucname: WALTZ HOLD POUSSETTE MEDLEY
devised: 2022-01-01
notes:
  Devised by Andrew Timmins 2016 to 2022  
  "The idea of this dance started in 2016. Ian Russell suggested, I should devise a dance with the Waltz Hold Poussette, after watching Mechthild & I dance it. We have been dancing it since 1994. Schorsch Lusky mentioned he wanted to learn it after we attending 2022 Frankfurt Ball."


created: 2022-08-23 12:54:19.737132+00
last_modified: 2022-09-01 10:47:16.617773+00
name: Orange and Black Beauty
ucname: ORANGE AND BLACK BEAUTY
devised: 2018-07-01
notes:
  I wrote this after seeing a Monarch butterfly in our yard on a milkweed plant opening and closing its wings – it was gorgeous.


created: 2022-08-30 19:32:56.320216+00
last_modified: 2022-10-03 13:01:57.175438+00
name: Trip to Yokohama, A
ucname: TRIP TO YOKOHAMA
intensity_bars: 8888/8440/8448/8888
devised: 2020-03-01
notes:
  There are many beautiful sightseeing spots in Yokohama City. It's deviser's pleasure, if you can feel fun by this dance.


created: 1998-09-29 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-08-31 09:18:49.972223+00
name: C'Est L'Amour
ucname: CEST LAMOUR
intensity_bars: 411 800 888 888
devised: 1830-01-01
notes:
  The French convention for capitalising this title would be just "C'est l'amour" or "C'est l'Amour". Capitalising every word as "C'Est L'Amour" would be considered incorrect in French but is how the RSCDS printed it in Book 34 so that is what is used here.


created: 2022-08-30 19:46:50.894489+00
last_modified: 2022-08-31 09:24:20.739437+00
name: New York Yankees
ucname: NEW YORK YANKEES
notes:
  Deviser's note:  
  This was devised with the intention of inviting all to dance it with the deepest yearning for the dear friend Yoshiaki Niwa, who has passed away.
  Mr Yoshiaki Niwa and my late husband, Yukio Naitoh, were very good friends.
  I remember them saying to each other that the initial of their names was the same as the New York Yankees, the baseball team, since they both had NY as the first letter of their names.
  They sometimes borrowed the design of the baseball team logo, which N and Y are overlapped, when inscribing their initials. This is the origin of this dance.


created: 2022-08-30 18:45:03.664898+00
last_modified: 2022-08-31 09:31:29.765075+00
name: Wave of Memory
ucname: WAVE OF MEMORY
devised: 2020-11-01
notes:
  The image of this dance is waves, approaching the center, pulling back, swirling or cutting through a vortex.
  Deviser thinks the wave is similar to human memory.


created: 2022-08-31 09:58:51.729222+00
last_modified: 2022-08-31 10:08:38.263314+00
name: Monarch Duet
ucname: MONARCH DUET
devised: 2018-07-01
notes:
  This year was a good one for Monarch butterflies in my yard and one day I watched as a pair flew first separately then came together to dance a duet in the air.


created: 2022-08-31 10:13:18.701434+00
last_modified: 2022-08-31 10:13:18.701434+00
name: Spinnen, Spinnen, Spinnen
ucname: SPINNEN SPINNEN SPINNEN
devised: 2018-07-01
notes:
  Named for a favorite bobbin lace book (Spinne is German for spider, Spinnen is the plural, and the book is all about making different spiders, an interesting and fun bobbin lace stitch).


created: 2022-08-31 10:18:12.425202+00
last_modified: 2022-08-31 10:18:55.420404+00
name: Helen and Malcolm Brown
ucname: HELEN AND MALCOLM BROWN
devised: 2018-08-01
notes:
  Helen and Malcolm Brown visited Chicago in August 2018 and the Chicago Branch held a dance in their honor. This dance was written shortly after that event and incorporates the starting figure from Malcolm’s dance Links with St Petersburg and the bourrel, which is a figure Helen likes.


created: 2022-08-31 11:03:23.484546+00
last_modified: 2022-08-31 11:03:23.484546+00
name: Nome King's Belt, The
ucname: NOME KINGS BELT
devised: 2018-09-01
notes:
  In the book Ozma of OZ, Dorothy manages to acquire the Nome King's belt, which is an important magic item and used in later books as well.


created: 2022-08-31 11:17:07.470646+00
last_modified: 2022-08-31 11:17:07.470646+00
name: Diagonal Duet
ucname: DIAGONAL DUET
devised: 2018-09-01
notes:
  I had an idea for an allemande on the diagonal and wrote this dance to try it out. When dancing it, one of the dancers remarked that a set of tall, long-legged, excellent dancers might prefer to dance around the outside of the set rather than within it.


created: 2022-08-31 11:37:08.328942+00
last_modified: 2022-08-31 11:37:08.328942+00
name: White City, The
ucname: WHITE CITY
devised: 2018-10-01
notes:
  I was reading books about the Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893, a section of which was called the white city because of the color of the buildings and the extensive lighting.


created: 2022-08-31 16:14:43.643796+00
last_modified: 2022-08-31 16:14:43.643796+00
name: NWT Mountie
ucname: NWT MOUNTIE
devised: 2018-12-01
notes:
  My grandfather was a Mountie in the Northwest Territories in the early 1910's. At that time NWT meant a huge chunk of what is now Canada, including Alberta, which is where he lived.


created: 2022-08-31 16:21:29.627871+00
last_modified: 2022-08-31 16:22:40.281024+00
name: Highland Scrambler
ucname: HIGHLAND SCRAMBLER
devised: 2018-12-01
notes:
  The original name of this dance was The Eggbeater because the figure in bars 9-24 reminds me of an eggbeater, but my class renamed it for me when they first danced it. Note that timing is critical in that figure!


created: 2022-08-31 16:28:12.158103+00
last_modified: 2022-08-31 16:29:42.063906+00
name: Torties Are Always Sweet
ucname: TORTIES ARE ALWAYS SWEET
devised: 2018-12-01
notes:
  For Ember, who was a tortieshell I rescued. My vet says she has never met a tortieshell that wasn’t sweet-tempered and Ember definitely was a sweet cat.


created: 2022-08-31 16:41:07.167862+00
last_modified: 2022-08-31 16:41:07.167862+00
name: Longer Days
ucname: LONGER DAYS
devised: 2018-12-21
notes:
  I like ladies' chain and am always searching for ways to get first couple back on their own sides after the figure. The non-standard progression works, but is a bit 'interesting' and my local class recommended it be listed as a 3-couple set dance after trying it out.

  This dance was written on the Winter Solstice – thus the name.


created: 2022-08-31 17:04:01.109122+00
last_modified: 2022-08-31 17:09:17.516207+00
name: Ice-Cold-Ice
ucname: ICECOLDICE
devised: 2019-02-01
notes:
  Class was cancelled for ice, then extreme cold, then ice. The temperature got to -23º F, but we survived.


created: 2022-08-31 16:57:58.007183+00
last_modified: 2022-08-31 17:09:47.24412+00
name: Return to Delaware Valley
ucname: RETURN TO DELAWARE VALLEY
devised: 2019-02-01
notes:
  Written for Barbara Cool and Tom Senior who plan to move back to the Delaware Valley area where they started dancing.


created: 2022-08-31 21:27:11.389483+00
last_modified: 2022-08-31 21:27:11.389483+00
name: Jersey Boy
ucname: JERSEY BOY
devised: 2019-03-01
notes:
  For my Dad who was born in New Jersey, served in the Navy in WWII, and died at the age of 93 on <<https://www.piday.org/|pi day>> this year. Bars 1-8 look like a heart to me.


created: 2022-08-31 21:47:11.994821+00
last_modified: 2022-08-31 21:47:11.994821+00
name: April Snow Again
ucname: APRIL SNOW AGAIN
devised: 2019-04-01
notes:
  Just an idea that came to me for bars 9-16 and 25-32. Note that 1C is dancing full reels while corners are dancing half reels.

  We had snow on April 14th this year which covered blooming daffodils. Weird.


created: 2022-08-31 22:05:47.524382+00
last_modified: 2022-08-31 22:05:47.524382+00
name: Too Much Rain
ucname: TOO MUCH RAIN
devised: 2019-06-01
notes:
  After the wettest May on record, it kept raining nearly every day in June as well. A friend posted 'The drought is over after 36 hours without rain!'


created: 2022-08-31 22:08:52.354657+00
last_modified: 2022-08-31 22:08:52.354657+00
name: Fox in the Sun
ucname: FOX IN THE SUN
devised: 2019-06-01
notes:
  We were visiting the next-door neighbors one afternoon and there was a beautiful fox in their backyard, lying on its side enjoying the sun.


created: 2022-08-31 21:41:54.603585+00
last_modified: 2022-08-31 22:33:27.875547+00
name: Four Daughters
ucname: FOUR DAUGHTERS
devised: 2019-03-01
notes:
  For my Dad who had Scottish heritage (MacDonald) and also four daughters, which is why the dance adds a couple each figure to the total of four.


created: 2022-08-31 21:30:26.973135+00
last_modified: 2022-08-31 22:36:00.966699+00
name: Scream of the Cat
ucname: SCREAM OF THE CAT
devised: 2019-03-01
notes:
  Our cat Edwin somehow managed to flip an S-shaped scratching board onto his back and screamed an awful scream. He wasn’t hurt (the board is not heavy).

  I love the Celtic reel and wanted more dances containing it.


created: 2022-09-01 11:16:09.468815+00
last_modified: 2022-09-01 11:16:09.468815+00
name: He Slept on My Heart
ucname: HE SLEPT ON MY HEART
devised: 2019-10-01
notes:
  We lost our cat Christopher 10/8/19. He was about 14.5 years old and one of those special cats that come along now and then: sweet tempered and very loving – every night he slept on my left side all night. This dance is set to a happy tune since the 12.5 years we had together we were really good years.


created: 2022-09-01 11:20:22.425509+00
last_modified: 2022-09-01 11:20:22.425509+00
name: A.D.O.P.T.
ucname: ADOPT
devised: 2019-10-01
notes:
  The loss of our cat Christopher made me think of long-time residents of pet shelters waiting for a home. A.D.O.P.T. is our local shelter.


created: 2022-09-01 11:23:12.006072+00
last_modified: 2022-09-01 11:23:12.006072+00
name: Chained Together
ucname: CHAINED TOGETHER
devised: 2019-10-01
notes:
  I was playing with the snowball grand chain as a way to get first couple back to their own sides after a ladies' chain.


created: 2022-09-01 11:28:18.125921+00
last_modified: 2022-09-01 11:28:18.125921+00
name: Tartan Weave
ucname: TARTAN WEAVE
devised: 2019-11-01
notes:
  Toni makes beautiful cloth napkins and Gwen chose the pattern pictured. Toni challenged me to replicate the pattern in a dance.


created: 2022-09-01 11:32:54.664396+00
last_modified: 2022-09-01 11:32:54.664396+00
name: Merry & Bright
ucname: MERRY AND BRIGHT
devised: 2019-12-01
notes:
  I wrote this after noticing a neighbor's holiday bench with 'Merry & Bright' on the back – from the song White Christmas.


created: 2022-09-01 11:58:18.800939+00
last_modified: 2022-09-01 11:58:18.800939+00
name: Soft Pretzels
ucname: SOFT PRETZELS
devised: 2019-12-01
notes:
  This set of figures reminds me of pretzels. Plus I was born in Philadelphia, a city known for its soft pretzels.


created: 2022-09-01 12:04:38.887608+00
last_modified: 2022-09-01 12:04:38.887608+00
name: Iain's Inspiration
ucname: IAINS INSPIRATION
devised: 2020-01-01
notes:
  Iain Boyd posted a query on strathspey.org about a set and link for 3 couples on the sides which got me thinking about how it might work. I have no idea whether this is the same figure as the one Iain asked about, but when I danced it in my head, it occurred to me that it was the perfect setup for the 3-couple bourrel, so I had to try it out in a dance.


created: 2022-09-01 12:10:36.560369+00
last_modified: 2022-09-01 12:10:36.560369+00
name: Bookends
ucname: BOOKENDS
devised: 2020-02-01
notes:
  The idea for bars 1-8 came to me and I started playing with it in my head. The rest of the dance sort of fell into place. Bookends seems to fit since there are figures of 8 at both ends.


created: 2022-09-01 15:02:55.573444+00
last_modified: 2022-09-01 15:02:55.573444+00
name: Jack Meets George
ucname: JACK MEETS GEORGE
devised: 2021-10-01
notes:
  This is a combination of Pelorus Jack reels with George Whitehorne's LS half reels all 4 times in Skirl of the Royal Ghosts.


created: 2022-09-01 15:12:44.278254+00
last_modified: 2022-09-01 15:12:44.278254+00
name: 73 Is the Perfect Number
ucname: 73 IS THE PERFECT NUMBER
devised: 2021-10-01
notes:
  In The Big Bang Theory Sheldon says that 73 is the perfect number because it is the 21st prime and the 12th prime is 37 and 3 * 7 = 21. Plus 73 is a palindrome in binary: 1001001. I wrote this dance for my 73rd birthday.


created: 2022-08-21 18:19:33.37433+00
last_modified: 2022-09-01 16:41:02.340788+00
name: Back to Square One
ucname: BACK TO SQUARE ONE
intensity_bars: 8484/8888/4848/8888
devised: 2020-02-01
notes:
  The Covid pandemic encouraged hands-free dances. During the first lockdown my number one favourite local walk included Tavistock Square in London. Unusually it has more statues of women than men and also several monuments for peace. So I kept going back to it - also in the series of subsequent lockdowns.

  NB this dance is a hands-free revision of an earlier dance <<ddd:Helvellyn#20089>>.


created: 2022-08-22 20:32:35.23406+00
last_modified: 2022-09-01 16:43:20.061073+00
name: Nurse Dent
ucname: NURSE DENT
intensity_bars: 880/804/804/888
devised: 2022-05-01
notes:
  This dance is for John Dent, a regular at Gay Gordons classes in London for many years and a participant at the Gay Gordons residential events at Laurieston Hall near Castle Douglas, Scotland. Those weeks usually included a cabaret night. One year we had several medics who produced a short shadow show of an operation going horribly wrong. John stole the show with a comic psycho performance as knife wielding Nurse Dent - an unforgettable memory of those gatherings.


created: 2022-09-01 20:42:00.399426+00
last_modified: 2022-09-01 20:42:00.399426+00
name: Canadian Roots
ucname: CANADIAN ROOTS
devised: 2022-07-01
notes:
  July 1st being Canada Day reminded me that I have Canadian roots (my paternal grandfather was born in Alberta and his parents ranched there).


created: 2022-09-01 11:11:37.990472+00
last_modified: 2022-09-02 09:29:17.571883+00
name: Tunes of Glory
ucname: TUNES OF GLORY
devised: 2019-08-01
notes:
  I used to play drums in a pipe band named Tunes of Glory and my favorite set was Wings followed by Cockney Jocks so when I realized this track plays them both and in that order, I had to write a dance. Since it is 48 bars it couldn’t be too much of a mind-twister.


created: 2022-09-01 20:04:13.340376+00
last_modified: 2022-09-02 09:29:53.733433+00
name: German Figure, The
ucname: GERMAN FIGURE
devised: 2022-03-01
notes:
  This dance was written as an exercise in the 2- and 3-couple allemande. I looked up the translation of 'allemande' and it came up 'German' so I named it The German Figure. When we danced it, we realized first couple needs to really hustle to get into position for the last 8 bars.


created: 2016-09-04 11:56:07.284531+00
last_modified: 2022-09-02 14:28:47.763286+00
name: Poppy and the Thistle, The
ucname: POPPY AND THE THISTLE
intensity_bars: 8448/8888/8008/8888
devised: 2015-04-01
notes:
  The logo selected for the 50th anniversary of the Los Angeles Branch depicts the entwined stems of the California Golden Poppy and the Thistle of Scotland framed by the name of our Branch at the top, with the dates 1966-2016 at the bottom and a large 50 in the center. Bars 9-24 of the dance outline the shape of our anniversary logo.


created: 2005-01-20 23:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-09-02 22:56:32.470219+00
name: Greenmantle
ucname: GREENMANTLE
intensity_bars: 800/866/866/868
devised: 2004-03-01
notes:
  The title has no connection with John Buchan’s novel of the same name.  It could have some connection with the fine beer brewed by Broughton Brewery.

  The notes for the dance also claim that "Broughton is the birthplace of John Buchan" however according to his <<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Buchan|wikipedia entry>> Buchan was actually born in Perth.


created: 2022-09-04 08:09:47.432644+00
last_modified: 2022-09-04 09:12:21.783207+00
name: Szilvia's Summer School Birthday
ucname: SZILVIAS SUMMER SCHOOL BIRTHDAY
devised: 2022-08-01
notes:
  Written for the deviser's wife Szilvia whose birthday was during week 3 of the 2022 St Andrews Summer School.


created: 2018-12-06 11:42:49.708353+00
last_modified: 2022-09-04 19:02:31.145107+00
name: Half a Crown
ucname: HALF A CROWN
intensity_bars: 888/888/808/888
notes:
  A dance in 2 and 6 bar phrases!
  Before decimalisation of UK money in 1971, a half crown was the largest value coin in common circulation, worth 2 shillings and sixpence or 1/8 of £1. This was converted into 12.5p in the new money.


created: 2022-01-27 19:03:58.873468+00
last_modified: 2022-09-06 14:14:11.027784+00
name: Oh to go Dancing for Perth's 95th
ucname: OH TO GO DANCING FOR PERTHS 95TH
notes:
  The dance is named as "...Perth's 95" in the table of contents but "...Perth's 95th" on the page with the dance description. The former is added as a spelling alias.


created: 2022-09-06 16:53:04.993651+00
last_modified: 2022-09-06 16:53:04.993651+00
name: What a Party!
ucname: WHAT A PARTY
devised: 2007-03-31
notes:
  The dance was devised on the occasion of Peter and Marise van Riel's party '40 Years of Dancing Together' (31 March 2007). Devised by Els van der Kamp-Grotenboers, 2007.


created: 2022-09-01 20:51:31.569985+00
last_modified: 2022-12-19 00:39:56.896626+00
name: Cheeky Chipmunk
ucname: CHEEKY CHIPMUNK
intensity_bars: 822/888/844/866
devised: 2022-07-01
notes:
  I like the idea of diagonal rights and lefts across the set. I saw a chipmunk eating something on our deck and it totally ignored me and kept eating.


created: 2022-09-01 20:46:41.622692+00
last_modified: 2022-09-08 11:52:57.210711+00
name: Penelope
ucname: PENELOPE
intensity_bars: 800/888/880/844
devised: 2022-07-01
notes:
  Written because I wanted to try the slip knot in strathspey time and ended up with a circulating version. Named to honor a friend's new baby girl.


created: 2016-04-12 07:50:17.997056+00
last_modified: 2022-09-08 07:30:29.393636+00
name: Mrs Gibbs of Josselin
ucname: MRS GIBBS OF JOSSELIN
intensity_bars: 880/888/888/888
devised: 2016-04-12
notes:
  Dedicated to Mrs Gibbs who very often welcomes and hosts at home with great kindness and generosity the many dancers who came from various parts of Brittany to dance together periodically in Josselin.


created: 2022-09-01 20:55:18.530406+00
last_modified: 2022-09-08 10:21:40.65048+00
name: Get Ready
ucname: GET READY
intensity_bars: 880/808/888/844
devised: 2022-08-01
notes:
  This dance was written for a class on anticipation. It is a lively dance and definitely requires all 3 dancing couples to anticipate the next figure.


created: 1997-09-03 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-09-13 11:43:39.789568+00
name: Harris Tweed
ucname: HARRIS TWEED
notes:
  From the instructions: "Harris Tweed originates in the Outer Hebrides off the west coast of Scotland. Most of the tweed is produced on one island with two names - Lewis and Harris. First produced over 150 years ago, the weaving is still based on a cottage industry of over 500 crofters who hand weave the tweed in their own homes."


created: 1998-01-05 23:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-09-13 12:01:56.968668+00
name: Susie Ferguson Reel
ucname: SUSIE FERGUSON REEL
notes:
  Originally entered in SCDDB as "Susie Ferguson Centennial Reel" it seems to be called just "Susie Ferguson Reel" in the Centennial Collection book. The original database name is now an alias.

  Bars 9-24 represent the petals of the fleur-de-lis for French Canada, bars 33-40 the St. Andrew's Cross for Scotland and the music is for English speaking Canada.


created: 1997-12-03 23:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-09-13 12:25:23.032006+00
name: Sam's Reel
ucname: SAMS REEL
intensity_bars: 8888/8000/8800/8222
devised: 1995-01-01
notes:
  This dance was devised to teach reels of four to beginners.  
  Sam is a very active black cat. The dance retraces his path through my home the weekend I left him to attend the TAC AGM. When I returned I found that he had unwound and "reeled" a full roll of toilet tissue, plus most of a roll of paper towels! (CP) 


created: 1997-10-26 23:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-09-13 12:32:01.864651+00
name: Ins and Outs
ucname: INS AND OUTS
devised: 1996-01-01
notes:
  From the instructions: "This dance is a memory of the lively ceilidhs we have enjoyed during the Scottish dance courses in the Kuckucksnest, very ably run by Carola Tress."


created: 1999-08-06 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-09-13 12:53:17.311786+00
name: Sparkling Shores of Kamagari, The
ucname: SPARKLING SHORES OF KAMAGARI
devised: 1994-01-01
notes:
  From the dance notes:
  "The dance was devised on the occasion of the 5th Anniversary of the 'Kamagari Scottish Festival' in Japan, 1994. Whilst swimming in the sea off Kamagari Island I noticed the sea glowing around me as I made contact with phosphorescent phytoplankton and the shoreline sparkling as the microscopic organisms were washed up on the sand."


created: 2018-03-06 00:15:24.399534+00
last_modified: 2022-09-13 15:19:28.334034+00
name: Jig for Jessie, A
ucname: JIG FOR JESSIE
intensity_bars: 800/888/800/844/888
devised: 2015-01-01
notes:
  Devised for Jessie MacLachlan, who taught the Abingdon SCD Class and the Headington class in Oxford for many years.
  Tune: Jig for Jessie (Vincent McCourt) (no further information available)


created: 2005-04-14 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-09-13 15:24:24.525152+00
name: Doug's Farewell to Kenner
ucname: DOUGS FAREWELL TO KENNER
devised: 1995-06-01
notes:
  Devised and danced on the occasion of Doug Davison's retirement as principal of Kenner College, Peterborough. June 1995.


created: 2005-04-27 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-09-13 15:30:45.419309+00
name: On the Banks of Shee Water
ucname: ON THE BANKS OF SHEE WATER
devised: 1992-01-04
notes:
  From the notes "devised and danced for John Reeves on his 60th birthday. John's roots are in Blairgowrie which lies at the foot of Glen Shee".


created: 1997-12-27 23:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-09-13 15:54:03.373807+00
name: Mingle-Mangle
ucname: MINGLEMANGLE
devised: 1995-07-01
notes:
  Inscribed "To Peter Newman, who requested a medley for three couples in a triangular set, the dance to include schiehallion reels."


created: 2014-08-31 16:24:59.517541+00
last_modified: 2022-09-13 16:56:46.583046+00
name: Braw Twa, The
ucname: BRAW TWA
devised: 2001-10-01
notes:
  Bunty has taught Scottish Country Dancing at Montrose for over forty five years, and still going strong in 2008. The other half of the Braw Twa is Olwyne Taylor, who plays the piano for the classes.


created: 1997-04-03 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-09-13 22:55:48.847548+00
name: Glenfiddich
ucname: GLENFIDDICH
devised: 1975-02-02
notes:
  To be checked: SCDDB currently links the tune Glenfiddich by William Marshall, but the instructions in The Reel #136 mention a tune of the same name by H Gray.


created: 2014-04-11 19:59:49.954382+00
last_modified: 2022-09-19 04:47:28.448548+00
name: Tea with Sylvia
ucname: TEA WITH SYLVIA
devised: 2013-09-01
notes:
  Written for Sylvia Dalkin from the Stafford & District Caledonian Society, to go with the tune Tea with Sylvia by Chris Dewhurst. Recorded on track 11 (Morland Ladies) of the CD Crossing Borders, by Chris, Julie & Nick Dewhurst.


created: 2011-12-08 23:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-09-19 06:35:30.044583+00
name: Alyth Promenade
ucname: ALYTH PROMENADE
intensity_bars: 666 666 888 800
notes:
  This is a variation of Goldring's Ayr Promenade.  Documented by Charles Upton, 2006.  No source indicated.


created: 2001-05-20 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-09-25 13:52:19.462578+00
name: Tribute to the Borders
ucname: TRIBUTE TO THE BORDERS
intensity_bars: 800 844 843 888
devised: 1979-01-01
notes:
  This dance is inscribed “To Alice and Joe Murphy” and is a tribute to the Carlisle and Borders Branch of the RSCDS also a recognition that the Borders are the first part of Scotland reached by travellers from the South.


created: 1997-09-18 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-09-19 13:41:59.588054+00
name: Miss Frown's Reel
ucname: MISS FROWNS REEL
intensity_bars: 880/800/844/888
devised: 1993-01-01
notes:
  This is a modified version of "Miss Nancy Frowns" in reel time to practice pas de basque for a University of Alabama Birmingham Special Studies Class in September 1993.  
  I have also taught the dance with 1st and 3rd couples dancing the hands across and back (not switching to 2nd couple for the left hands across). That works fine, too.


created: 2022-09-17 21:02:59.138898+00
last_modified: 2022-09-26 22:23:15.25257+00
name: Reel for Freddie Stewart, A
ucname: REEL FOR FREDDIE STEWART
intensity_bars: 86860/84884/88888/80800
notes:
  Freddie was a keen dancer who died in a tragic kayaking incident in the Sound of Jura in April 2007 at the age of 23.


created: 2022-09-14 08:28:54.99169+00
last_modified: 2023-05-24 22:36:46.723655+00
name: Libelinha
ucname: LIBELINHA
devised: 2021-09-01
notes:
  Written for a young dancer of our group. She is so light and smooth dancing, that people call her Libelinha (dragonfly in portuguese). The word can also be Libellula or Libélula.


created: 2022-09-19 20:09:48.712013+00
last_modified: 2022-09-20 06:48:38.45209+00
name: Five for Luck
ucname: FIVE FOR LUCK
notes:
  Source: Red Thistle Dancers youtube videos (<<https://youtu.be/MObhB5LQt24>>, <<https://youtu.be/_fK0C1dXqdo>>).


created: 1997-04-03 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-09-26 22:39:05.972939+00
name: Anne Munro of Portree
ucname: ANNE MUNRO OF PORTREE
intensity_bars: 802/880/808/888
notes:
  The figures in the dance represent the letters A N N E.

  The notes say that "The dance was devised by Dr Ellen Garvie. Anne has been the teacher ofthe Portree class since 1975 and the dance was written by Ellen in recognition ofAnne's many hours of labour preparing for, and keeping control of the Portree class."


created: 2022-09-19 08:14:26.303314+00
last_modified: 2022-09-22 12:47:55.605335+00
name: Units 2 and 3
ucname: UNITS 2 AND 3
intensity_bars: 888/088/088/888
devised: 2022-07-01
notes:
  I devised this dance at the 2022 St Andrews Summer School while doing Units 2 and 3 of the RSCDS teaching certificate. The dance was devised such that the 2s and 3s are showcased representing Units 2 and 3. The vigour of the dance represents the high level of effort put in by students during the course. Each dancer dances from several positions, similar to how we have been taking the position of different dancers to demonstrate formations. That the ones are still during bars 9-24 represents spending time observing other dancers and teachers during the course. The plentiful curving and casting to change positions on the side lines was included to demonstrate good kilt control (or lack thereof)!


created: 2005-04-10 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-09-23 15:11:46.817839+00
name: Ardbrae Bank
ucname: ARDBRAE BANK
devised: 1999-01-01
notes:
  The dances notes advise that:
  *Bars 9-24 has a formation similar to the "Targe" but danced from the comers of a square formed by the original positions of the four dancers. At the end of each four bars the dancers meet their partners and the rotation is one place clockwise round the square.*

  *There may be an "Ardbrae Bank" somewhere in the world. But in this instance the name is made from the letters of "Barbara" and "Ken" (Roberts) long-time and enthusiastic members of the Peterborough Scottish Country Dance Society to whom the dance is dedicated.*

  May be danced as reel or jig.


created: 2005-01-19 23:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-09-23 15:22:33.174978+00
name: Raspberry Ripple
ucname: RASPBERRY RIPPLE
devised: 2003-01-01
notes:
  From the notes: "Many of the farms around Blairgowrie derive part of their income from the cultivation of raspberries."


created: 2004-10-21 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-09-23 15:47:49.645278+00
name: Wishing Tree, The
ucname: WISHING TREE
intensity_bars: 808/888/484/880
notes:
  "On Isle Maree, one of the islands in Loch Maree, there are the ruins of a chapel founded by St. Maelrubha, a sacred well and the remains of a wishing tree on which Queen Victoria fixed an offering in 1871."


created: 2004-10-21 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-09-23 15:54:56.159303+00
name: Fair Jennie's Jig
ucname: FAIR JENNIES JIG
devised: 1995-01-01
notes:
  Inscribed "For Jennie Hamlin and Jeff Pitchers on the occasion of their marriage - 29th July , 1975."


created: 2004-09-08 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-09-23 16:09:35.020698+00
name: Molinos, Los
ucname: MOLINOS
devised: 2003-01-01
notes:
  Inscribed "for the Trip with JAG to Torremolinos."

  Drewry also notes that "<<ddd:Five Stars>> is a 5-couple version of this dance. Dancers may choose which version they prefer."


created: 2003-09-22 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-09-23 17:12:38.558351+00
name: Gifts
ucname: GIFTS
devised: 2002-04-01
notes:
  Note that the whole dance is palindromic. The figure in bars 9-24 is done 1st diagonal, 2nd diagonal, 2nd diagonal, 1st diagonal.  
  The figure in bars 9-24 reminds me of bows tied on packages, thus the name 'Gifts.'


created: 2000-11-17 23:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-09-30 22:18:38.485603+00
name: Alice's Strathspey
ucname: ALICES STRATHSPEY
devised: 1996-01-01
notes:
  Devised "in honour of my teacher, Alice Schabram, whom I thank for her dedication and support for me over the years."


created: 2022-08-17 10:49:38.894825+00
last_modified: 2022-09-23 18:47:44.966776+00
name: Sunday, Early in the Morning
ucname: SUNDAY EARLY IN THE MORNING
devised: 2022-07-31
notes:
  "During the Saturday ball at the end of the first week of Summer School in St. Andrews, I was asked if I wanted to write a dance for our tutor Rachel Shankland and for our musician George Meikle. Thus, on the following morning, at 6.30am, I started devising this dance."


created: 2022-05-17 22:26:24.915307+00
last_modified: 2022-09-23 19:07:06.888782+00
name: Foursome and Half Reel of Tulloch
ucname: FOURSOME AND HALF REEL OF TULLOCH
notes:
  Note that there are various versions of this dance in circulation, which tend to differ in the length of the strathspey and the reel parts. 

  See also

  <<ddd:Foursome and Half Reel of Tulloch, The  #7542>>. (32 S + 32 R + 64 R)

  <<ddd:Foursome Reel  and Reel of Tulloch(trad. version), The #14713>>. (48 S + 88 R)

  and <<https://my.strathspey.org/dd/issue/2759/|issue 2759>>. 


created: 2020-11-14 14:25:56.169998+00
last_modified: 2022-09-23 22:01:58.776717+00
name: We'll Meet Again
ucname: WELL MEET AGAIN
devised: 2020-09-01
notes:
  A video is available at 
  https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oFq_JqTPwdUlTP-sWpwM-BJHJn5PEQku/view?fbclid=IwAR2O5-OpKSW92e8cwQfuV-IFgt9Cqyf3XiaCuezetqPY_c-WFXoR8kCM7CA
  Video is only twice through.
  Performed by Innes Scottish Country Dance Club, Auckland, New Zealand on 1 November 2020


created: 2001-07-25 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-09-30 20:10:47.765422+00
name: Pika, The
ucname: PIKA
notes:
  The dance was devised by Jeff Davis to be performed on the top of Pikes peak where the SDC
  of Colorado set a high altitude record for Scottish Country Dancing. The author hoped there
  might be enough other total idiots who would want to dance a jig as well as the planned
  strathspey at that elevation. Small and rabbit-like, the Pika can be found scurrying through
  the rocks at high altitude, gathering and storing the tundra grasses in little haystacks for the
  coming winter.


created: 2002-06-04 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-09-30 12:12:22.119625+00
name: Sarah Elizabeth's Jig
ucname: SARAH ELIZABETHS JIG
notes:
  From the notes: "This Dance was devised for my youngest daughter Sarah, who was born on May 31st 1992."


created: 2022-09-27 10:28:39.796442+00
last_modified: 2022-09-27 12:51:14.293318+00
name: Our Compliments to John Renton
ucname: OUR COMPLIMENTS TO JOHN RENTON
intensity_bars: 800/844/888/800
devised: 2022-08-01
notes:
  John Renton, musician, band leader, composer and good egg living in Inveraray, reaches the milestone of
  eighty years on 27 September 2022. This dance appreciates his friendship and acknowledges his great
  contribution to RSCDS and SCD in general through his love of Scottish music.


created: 2022-10-01 09:06:55.743895+00
last_modified: 2022-10-09 07:02:07.276521+00
name: Winter Rose, A
ucname: WINTER ROSE
intensity_bars: 7007/8888/0880/8888/8888
devised: 2018-04-01
notes:
  In honour of Anne Naylor who has been an active branch member for many years. Anne's southern hemisphere mid-winter birthday was the inspiration for the title. 


created: 2002-11-02 23:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-12-22 18:23:11.826658+00
name: Christine Miller's Reel
ucname: CHRISTINE MILLERS REEL
intensity_bars: 8888/8888/8888/8000
devised: 1997-01-01
notes:
  Ruary writes:  The formations are: 

  1. All four couples set twice and cross to partner's place. 

  2. First couple, followed by the other 3 couples, lead down the middle for 4 steps and cast back to place. 

  3. First couple cross over RH and cast to the bottom of the set on the opposite side. The other three couples join hands and move up. First couple turn with the RH one and a half times to finish on their own side in 4th place. [seems to be incomplete]

  Ruary also wrote:  Set twice and cross RH, and back,  lead down the middle and cast back Cross, cast and turn RH.

  Originally, the last 4 bars were a half figure of eight, but by 2004 this had been changed to turn right once and a half


created: 2001-11-29 23:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-09-30 12:36:32.714882+00
name: Pond Place
ucname: POND PLACE
devised: 2000-05-01
notes:
  Devised in May 2000 for Robin and Nick Knox of Pond Place, Babylon, for their first wedding anniversary.

  *Balance-in-line in strathspey time: This is a formation devised by the late Milton Levy of New
  York. The steps are the same as for normal strathspey setting. The hands move as follows: on the
  first bar, those with left hands joined in the middle drop left hands and all, moving to the right,
  join left hands under right hands and then drop right hands. Those moving into the middle of the
  line join right hands. Repeat moving to the left on bar 2, joining right hands under left hands.
  This is not as complicated as it sounds: the free hands simply join underneath the ‗holding hands‘
  each time.


created: 2001-09-12 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-09-30 20:07:41.249142+00
name: Spin Doctor, The
ucname: SPIN DOCTOR
devised: 1999-11-01
notes:
  The dedication reads: for Alice Maclean to cure her of the Millennium Bug.

  Additional notes from *Greenburn Book 3:*

  1. Spinning is permitted in bars marked with double underlining [that means in bars 1-8, 13-16 and 29-32]
  1. Teviot Bridge (RSCDS Book 5 No.1) starts with 1st couple turning with the right hand two and a half times, but in that dance, they do not move down.
  1. The reels of three are similar to those in Thomas Glovers Reel.
  1. During the Winter Break in Aviemore, Alice said she was tired of people spinning so much in dances that they spoiled the phrasing. George Meikle suggested that they needed a spin doctor and so this dance was born. (Is the spin doctor also an obstetrician?) (Strangely, when they were told that spinning was permissible, the dancers did not spin.)


created: 1997-12-28 23:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-09-27 14:06:34.861407+00
name: Blue Loch, The
ucname: BLUE LOCH
notes:
  This dance is almost identical to <<http://my.strathspey.org/dd/dance/3834/|The  Linton Ploughman>> from <<http://my.strathspey.org/dd/publication/5/|RSCDS Book 5>>, but ending with an Allemande instead of a Poussette.


created: 2006-12-11 23:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-09-30 11:21:10.217124+00
name: Weird Sisters, The
ucname: WEIRD SISTERS
devised: 2006-10-01
notes:
  Halloween falls on our regular dance night this year and we’ve been planning a party that night. Also, I am a great fan of Shakespeare and enjoy "The Scottish Play" a great deal. The title of this dance comes from a reference to the three witches in that play ("*Double, double, toil and trouble. Fire burn and cauldron bubble*.")


created: 2002-12-01 23:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-09-30 11:27:40.834034+00
name: Mi Amigo
ucname: MI AMIGO
intensity_bars: 808/800/888/804
devised: 1992-01-01
notes:
  This dance was written in honor of our amigo, Javier Cortina, a student from Spain for two years. The
  figures represent his travel from Madrid to Portland and getting to know us - Los Norteamericanos.
  This dance was presented and first danced in the Vancouver, USA class in Vancouver, Washington, on
  July 8, 1992.


created: 2002-11-14 23:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-09-30 11:36:11.721694+00
name: Striding Sharply Along the Edge
ucname: STRIDING SHARPLY ALONG THE EDGE
devised: 2002-05-01
notes:
  From the dance notes: The title of this dance comes from two famous edges in the Lake District, Striding Edge on Helvellyn and Sharp Edge on Saddleback. Both edges provide interesting routes to the summits of the fells. The name of the dance could be condensed to "Striding Sharply"!"

  The dance is inscribed "for the dancers at Morland 2002".


created: 2020-05-12 11:47:37.750431+00
last_modified: 2022-10-01 15:23:42.907555+00
name: Ho! Tom Bombadil
ucname: HO TOM BOMBADIL
intensity_bars: 800/822/800/808
devised: 2020-03-02
notes:
  The _Tom Bombadil turn_:  

  1st couple, giving right hands, cross, 1st man dancing above his partner while she dances under the arch made by their joined right hands and, with right hands still joined, 1st man curves clockwise while 1st woman curves anti-clockwise to finish next to each other in the centre in 1st place facing up. 1st woman has to start her anti-clockwise curve while dancing under their joined hands and 1st man has to dance past his partner before starting his clockwise curve.  

  The tune, Ho! Tom Bombadil, inspired the dance. I then composed March Madness as the second tune to be used in the music set, and Ho! Tom Bombadil must be repeated to make up the three required tunes.


created: 2022-10-01 07:55:12.463722+00
last_modified: 2022-10-01 13:47:57.395539+00
name: Arch, The
ucname: ARCH
intensity_bars: 8888/8888/8008/8888
devised: 2022-07-01
notes:
  *From the dance notes:*
  This is a humble collaborative tribute of a dance and a tune for a truly great man, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who passed away on 26 December 2021.

  This dance does things in 2 and 2 and includes formations with arches as a nod to the humble man who was known as "the Arch".


created: 2022-10-30 10:39:38.193822+00
last_modified: 2022-10-30 10:39:38.193822+00
name: Gombey-san
ucname: GOMBEYSAN
devised: 2020-11-01
notes:
  Gombey-san was a famous farmer and hunter. He was always busy working and became a main character of a
  famous song for children.


created: 2018-09-04 11:19:50.80088+00
last_modified: 2022-10-01 15:09:22.983052+00
name: Elvish Affair, An
ucname: ELVISH AFFAIR
intensity_bars: 8008/8888/8008/8008
devised: 2018-08-01
notes:
  Devised by Liebet Joubert, August 2018. This dance was inspired by elves from various fantasy stories.


created: 2022-10-01 08:17:09.104589+00
last_modified: 2022-10-01 15:18:36.98203+00
name: Fields of Gold
ucname: FIELDS OF GOLD
intensity_bars: 884/646/282/882
devised: 2022-02-21
notes:
  In celebration of the Pretoria group's golden (50th) anniversary in 2022 which coincides with the Pretoria Branch's 40th anniversary.


created: 2018-11-10 13:17:49.38889+00
last_modified: 2022-10-01 15:20:01.676534+00
name: Fraoch-badain
ucname: FRAOCHBADAIN
intensity_bars: 808/888/888/880
devised: 2018-06-01
notes:
  Fraoch-badain is the five leaved Heather, Erica cinerea. This dance is in celebration of my wife Heather’s 50th Birthday.


created: 2018-04-05 11:56:36.756662+00
last_modified: 2022-10-10 15:42:48.02077+00
name: Dancing Dragons
ucname: DANCING DRAGONS
intensity_bars: 800/888/468/888
devised: 2017-08-18
notes:
  Devised by Liebet Joubert, 18 August 2017.

  This dance was inspired by Daenerys Targaryen’s three dragons – Drogon, Rhaegal, and Viserion – from Game of Thrones. I tried to mimic the dragons in flight with the formations that I used and I decided that I had to use the snake pass, since dragons are reptilian and sometimes portrayed as serpentine.


created: 2022-02-16 01:47:36.145844+00
last_modified: 2022-10-01 18:04:25.767287+00
name: Platinum Reflections
ucname: PLATINUM REFLECTIONS
intensity_bars: 804/808/480/844/880
devised: 2022-02-13
notes:
  Devised by Wouter Joubert, 13 February 2022, in honour of the platinum Jubilee of Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II. The tune suggests pleasant reflection rather than processions, pomp and ceremony – hence the title.


created: 2022-10-01 08:48:29.423366+00
last_modified: 2022-10-06 09:47:44.055925+00
name: Peter's LMP
ucname: PETERS LMP
intensity_bars: 8888/8080/8888/8080
devised: 2017-01-01
notes:
  This dance was devised for Peter Macfarlane in celebration of his Lemon Meringue Pie which certainly is the finest that we have ever tasted.


created: 2022-10-01 07:42:59.729663+00
last_modified: 2022-10-01 21:12:57.768556+00
name: 20 in 2020
ucname: 20 IN 2020
intensity_bars: 844/888/844/888
devised: 2020-11-19
notes:
  In honour of the 20th birthday of Stefan Naudé, a good friend, who joined us for dancing a few times this year before the Lockdown. 


created: 2022-10-01 08:15:20.957879+00
last_modified: 2022-10-10 16:36:04.643421+00
name: Fee Fi Foh
ucname: FEE FI FOH
intensity_bars: 880/800/888/844
devised: 2020-03-01
notes:
  Inspired by the tune that Wouter posted on the Strathspey Mailing List where he linked the Coronavirus to the giant from Jack and the Beanstalk.


created: 2022-10-01 07:57:31.006808+00
last_modified: 2022-10-24 22:09:49.44236+00
name: Be Prepared
ucname: BE PREPARED
intensity_bars: 880/888/844/844
devised: 2019-01-01
notes:
  This dance was devised to celebrate the 70th birthday of Jean Dunn. Aside from being a dancer, Jean is also a Regional Commissioner for the Girl Guides, hence the dances title.  

  In this dance, you always need to be prepared for what comes next. The half diagonal reels represent the petals of the Guide Trefoil and in the last two bars you will see the lady "guiding" her partner home. 


created: 2015-10-01 10:31:57.760768+00
last_modified: 2022-10-01 18:11:56.260441+00
name: Road to McGregor, The
ucname: ROAD TO MACGREGOR
intensity_bars: 8080/8888/8484/8484
devised: 2013-09-01
notes:
  McGregor is a small town in South Africa's Cape Winelands. The town has firm Scottish roots, and even has its own SCD club. An excellent road leads to McGregor, it carries on through the heart of the village and then... stops. The Road to McGregor could in fact be described as the Road to Nowhere. 

  This dance was devised to celebrate a dancing weekend in McGregor.


created: 2022-10-05 17:36:24.4891+00
last_modified: 2022-10-05 17:36:24.4891+00
name: Eight, Eight, Eight
ucname: EIGHT EIGHT EIGHT
devised: 2022-09-01
notes:
  This is a modified version of Jean Shaw’s '<<ddd:Figures of Eight#18474>>' which is more suitable for beginners who haven’t yet learned the setting step.


created: 2019-09-09 21:07:30.432888+00
last_modified: 2022-10-01 18:23:55.633577+00
name: Spokane Rainbow, The
ucname: SPOKANE RAINBOW
intensity_bars: 8880/8660/8088/8004
devised: 2018-01-01
notes:
  On our first day in Spokane WA, my wife Heather and I saw a beautiful rainbow while driving back into town after a visit to Coeur d’Alene. On the second day we saw a rainbow in the Spokane falls. On day three we went dancing with the Spokane SCD group, and I overheard a conversation among some of the dancers about how lovely it would be to have a 7 couple set with each couple dressed in a different one of the rainbow colours – we were 7 couples on the floor at the time.  

  This dance has been devised for the Spokane Scottish Country Dance group, with thanks for a lovely evening of dancing, and to remember the rainbow which has become one of the symbols of our visit to Spokane.  

  Note : This dance has been devised as a 4 couple dance to minimize the number of dancers required, but has been written in such a way that should the need arise, it can be danced in a 7 couple, rainbow coloured set by the 1st as well as 4th couples beginning. In this case it becomes a 7x32 bar dance.

  *Note:  In the instructions, the title says it is a 3C/4L dance, but the description is for a 4C/4L dance.*


created: 2001-05-03 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-10-01 19:07:57.650142+00
name: Miss Johnstone of Ardrossan
ucname: MISS JOHNSTONE OF ARDROSSAN
intensity_bars: 80400 80088 88800 80004
devised: 2000-01-01
notes:
  ##>>
  A dance by <<ddp:Goldring, Roy|Roy Goldring>> for <<ddp:Johnstone, Muriel A|Muriel Johnstone>> who grew up in Ardrossan on the North Ayrshire coast.
  ##<<


created: 2001-10-23 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-10-02 11:51:00.929664+00
name: Tri Fichead
ucname: TRI FICHEAD
notes:
  From the dance notes: "Tri Fichead (pronounced. tree feeket) is the gaelic for 60. The dance was written to celebrate the 6th birthday of Cathy - a dancer in the Fortrose class. Bars 17-24 describe a 6 and bars 25-32 a 0."


created: 2001-10-23 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-10-02 11:54:38.757291+00
name: Leasowe Castle
ucname: LEASOWE CASTLE
notes:
  From the dance notes: 'This is a castle in Wallasey, Wirral, near Liverpool. It was once a sporting residence for the Earls of Derby and there is a local belief that the first "Derby" was run on Leasowe Race Course. Latterly it has been used as a convalescent home and then an hotel and conference centre.'


created: 2000-04-11 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-10-02 12:02:53.718931+00
name: 25th Reel, The
ucname: 25TH REEL
intensity_bars: 8066/8860/8000/8888
devised: 1985-01-01
notes:
  Fomr the dance notes:
  "Alan and Lydia Smith founded the Concord, Massachusetts, Scottish Country Dance group in 1960. They wrote this dance for the Twenty-fifth Anniversary Ball in 1985, and Ed Pearlman composed the title tune and played for that occasion. The Concord group became a Boston Branch class in 1989 and now meets in Weston, Massachusetts."


created: 1999-08-05 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-10-02 12:44:15.019241+00
name: 96 Ten, The
ucname: 96 TEN
devised: 1996-01-01
notes:
  From the dance notes:
  For the 1996 first fortnight Certificate Class at Summer School. (It was the first Summer School class to be held for both Certificates together.) This was a happy group of three Full Certificate and seven Preliminary Test candidates.


created: 2002-09-26 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-10-14 19:44:17.334791+00
name: Platinum Jig
ucname: PLATINUM JIG
notes:
  75th Anniversary is either Diamond or Platinum. As most people know 60 years as Diamond the decision was made to call this dance Platinum Jig. [from the publication]


created: 1999-08-05 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-10-03 08:46:47.553187+00
name: New Brudenell Jig, The
ucname: NEW BRUDENELL JIG
intensity_bars: 4444/4444/4884/8444
notes:
  This dance is not to be confused with the <<ddd:Brudenell Jig>>, also by Brenda Burnell, published by the RSCDS in <<ddpub:Second Book of Graded Scottish Country Dances, A>>.

  The dance is named after the Brudenell Evening Institute, Leeds, UK.  The deviser's husband taught Scottish Country Dancing there, and eventually became head of the Brudenell Evening Centre.

  (This information is taken from the note at the end of the description of this dance in the 35th Silver Thistle Collection)


created: 2022-06-23 18:13:30.909225+00
last_modified: 2022-10-03 18:38:10.181958+00
name: NHS Hero
ucname: NHS HERO
intensity_bars: 444/880/888/844
devised: 2021-01-01
notes:
  This dance is dedicated to Linda Williamson who worked for NHS Scotland as a nurse throughout the Covid 19 Pandemic. During the first lockdown members of the public thanked the NHS by clapping on their doorsteps at 8pm on Thursday evenings. Bars 1-8 represent this with the claps.


created: 2009-11-20 23:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-10-03 22:27:06.103856+00
name: Bobby and Kobby
ucname: BOBBY AND KOBBY
notes:
  Inscribed "for Greyfriars Bobby of Edinburgh".

  The instructions describe this as a 32 bar dance for three couples in a four couple set. However the 2nd time through is slightly modified, so the dance can also be considered as a 64 bar dance for four couples in a four couple set.


created: 2019-09-09 21:12:11.909551+00
last_modified: 2022-10-09 14:57:49.873773+00
name: Reel Numbers
ucname: REEL NUMBERS
intensity_bars: 8000/8800/8884/8448
devised: 2019-04-01
notes:
  This dance is for Christopher Gilmour and Fiona McCutcheon in celebration of their 70th birthdays in 2019.  

  This dance recognizes their contribution to dancing in Cape Town at club as well as RSCDS Branch level. They are both members of the Lynfrae “Reel Eight” Committee, Chris in role of Chair and Fiona as Treasurer. They additionally serve on the RSCD Branch Committee with Fiona as the current Secretary.  

  They both enjoy numbers and teaching others things mathematical. Chris is Emeritus Professor at University of Cape Town having spent 42 years in the Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics before retiring in 2014. Fiona holds a Bsc (Hons.) Mathematics and currently coaches high-school maths.  

  The dance portrays a sequence of real numbers starting with 1 couple then 2s joining in then progressively including the 3s and 4s.
  The name “Reel Numbers” (and not “Real Numbers”) in intentional and not a typo as Chris is fond of word play.  


created: 2022-10-30 10:48:03.404424+00
last_modified: 2022-10-30 10:48:03.404424+00
name: Burns Club
ucname: BURNS CLUB
notes:
  Devised in memory of the late Mr. Hidenobu Katsuzaki, the founder of Burns Club in Kanazawa city. He was the excellent teacher of Scottish Country Dance in Japan.


created: 1998-11-14 23:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-11-27 17:26:00.723155+00
name: Misses Farrell of Alloa, The
ucname: MISSES FARRELL OF ALLOA
devised: 1977-01-01
notes:
  John Drewry wrote in the original description that the dance was for Miss E. and Miss K. Farrell of Alloa.


created: 2002-03-04 23:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-10-04 01:56:47.690757+00
name: Dragon, The
ucname: DRAGON
intensity_bars: 811/844/844/844
devised: 1998-05-01
notes:
  I dreamed up this dance while driving down to Morland (near Penrith in Cumbria) at the end of May for the Morland Scottish Dancing Week.  
  The entry into the reel of four from the left hands across is similar to that in "Dream Maker".  
  The "Dragon" in the title could come from my recent trip to Japan, where there are many dragons. There is a famous temple in Kyoto which has a dragon painted on the ceiling. The dragon's eye is in the middle of the ceiling and, no matter where you stand, the dragon's eye is always looking at you. I was given a silk kimono bath robe with dragons printed on it. The title could also come from Morland where the landlady of the local hostelry used to be called "The Dragon". Sadly, the Dragon's Pub has now been closed, leaving only one
  hostelry in the village.


created: 2022-10-01 09:03:43.323164+00
last_modified: 2022-10-04 10:00:11.82343+00
name: Sylvia Miskoe's Strathspey
ucname: SYLVIA MISKOES STRATHSPEY
intensity_bars: 880/833/822/888
devised: 2018-04-01
notes:
  For Sylvia Miskoe of Concord, New Hampshire.  

  When I started composing music for SCD I had a million queries and Sylvia was one of those wonderful people who listened to my many questions and provided answers and explanations, who played my creations and gave feedback and advice.  

  In 2004 I wrote her a tune to express my gratitude. Fourteen years later I would like to add a dance to that tune. 


created: 2022-10-01 08:58:50.456455+00
last_modified: 2022-10-04 11:10:51.270357+00
name: Sophie and the Dance of Life
ucname: SOPHIE AND THE DANCE OF LIFE
intensity_bars: 844/888/888/844
devised: 2020-04-06
notes:
  Sophie Thompson, the granddaughter of a friend, was born on 30 March 2020, during the Covid-19 pandemic. I wrote her a tune. Often during this time of crisis I thought about the wonder of living so I decided that Sophie's tune also needed a dance to celebrate life, Sophie's life in particular hut also life on a broader scale. 


created: 1997-04-03 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-11-01 18:11:37.638562+00
name: Trim the Velvet
ucname: TRIM THE VELVET
intensity_bars: 888 888 844 822
devised: 1969-06-11
notes:
  Devised on Wednesday 11th June, 1969. The title is that of an Irish reel.
   
  Both Noeline and Iain enjoy "The Montgomerie's Rant". Those who are not familiar with the terminology 'third and fourth corners' should read Harry Ways letter published in the March 1985 issue of TACTALK or the note published in the 1986 issue of "The New Zealand Scottish Country Dancer", page 14.

  Recommended tune "The Fair Maid of Perth" played AABB.


created: 2002-04-08 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-10-14 20:02:59.434274+00
name: Peggy's Joy
ucname: PEGGYS JOY
devised: 1989-01-01
notes:
  Dance devised by Margaret Waddell in 1989 and dedicated to Mrs. Margaret Spouse of Duns - known to all as Peggy.


created: 2002-01-08 23:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-10-04 17:54:58.439443+00
name: Mairi's Wedding
ucname: MAIRIS WEDDING
intensity_bars: 800/844/844/888/888
devised: 1959-01-01
notes:
  ##>> This is considered by many to be the archetypal dance created to an already well known tune, in this case The Lewis Bridal Song.
  ## The words of the song *Mairi’s Wedding* were added by Sir Hugh S Robertson, founder of the 
  ## Glasgow Orpheus Choir. There is also a Gaelic song version with words by John Bannerman.
  ##<<

  John Roderick (Johnny) Bannerman (1865-1938) from South Uist wrote the original Gaelic words of the song in 1935, for 1934 National Mod gold medalist singer Mary C. MacNiven of Portnahaven, Islay. Mary's actual wedding (to sea captain John Campbell) didn't take place until 1941. Sir Hugh S. Roberton (1874-1952), founder of the acclaimed Glasgow Orpheus Choir and a leading choir master of the time, came up with the well-known English lyrics – only very loosely related to Bannerman's Gaelic ones – in 1936. Mary had been born in 1905 and passed away on 25 March 1997, at age 91.
  (See <<http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/spl/aberdeen/mary-c-macniven-1.405082|Mary's obituary>>.)

  On dance programmes, the »Mairi« in the title of the dance is often spelled »Mhairi«. This does look vaguely more »Gaelic« but would have to be pronounced »VAA-ri«. It would also be grammatically incorrect.

  As a common variant,  some dancers pass by the right between the diagonal half-reels of four (contrary to the express wishes of the author, James Cosh). This variant has the nickname »Mairi's Divorce«, which is a bit disrespectful as the real Mary never divorced. In 1998 Angus Henry somewhat jokingly »devised« and <<http://www.users.on.net/~anguka/mairi.pdf|published>> the
  right-shoulder variant using that nickname.

  Since the pass only involves the first couple, they can choose the shoulder as they wish at each pass
  without disturbing the rest of the set.


created: 1998-07-12 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-10-04 18:42:58.644514+00
name: Colonel, The
ucname: COLONEL
intensity_bars: 800 888 888 822 822
devised: 1740-01-01
notes:
  Bars 25-26 now read "... pass by the right to face first corners".  Published in Scottish Country Dancer #20, April 2015.


created: 1998-04-01 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-10-04 18:49:53.376079+00
name: Manchester Medley
ucname: MANCHESTER MEDLEY
devised: 1993-09-01
notes:
  Dedicated to the Manchester Branch.

  The original description is named "Manchester Medley".  SCDDB also has a (S64+R64) medley called "A Manchester Medley", by an unknown deviser.  It is quite possible that to distinguish the two medleys _this_ dance was nicknamed "T' Other Manchester Medley"; it was originally entered in SCDDB under that name.  That name has now been added as an alias.


created: 2022-08-30 18:26:34.537329+00
last_modified: 2022-10-04 18:58:03.025394+00
name: Fairy Feather, The
ucname: FAIRY FEATHER
intensity_bars: 888/888/822/888
devised: 2021-01-01
notes:
  The deviser gave the club a nickname 'Feather Tartan' in wishing to dance like a celestial maiden wearing a heavenly robe of feathers. "Fairy Feather" is a silk fabric created with an image of a celestial feather robe.


created: 1997-12-27 23:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-10-04 20:42:21.829566+00
name: Sally's Army
ucname: SALLYS ARMY
intensity_bars: 880/804/804/844
devised: 1996-02-01
notes:
  From the notes:
  This dance was devised by Isobel Eaton in February 1996 when a new class commenced in the Salvation Anny Citadel. Hence the name "Sally's Army". With the Captain's blessing it was danced publicly forthe first time at their Church Parade in March 1996.

  Isobel's suggested music (Chippy's Rant) may no longer be available as it is from a very old recording. Another possible tune might be: Two of the Best, Craigellachie Band "Reel Friends" AD 010


created: 2022-10-01 08:56:29.252751+00
last_modified: 2022-10-05 12:26:23.69982+00
name: Serenity
ucname: SERENITY
intensity_bars: 840/886/880/808
devised: 2020-10-01
notes:
  This dance is dedicated to Christopher Duigan, one of South Africa's leading concert pianists, whose twice-weekly livestream concerts from his home studio in Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, were my link to sanity and serenity during the long and lonely months of aloneness in the COVJD-19 pandemic lockdown (27 March 2020 to 4 April 2022) and continue to be an immense source of joy for me.


created: 2022-10-25 23:05:18.568021+00
last_modified: 2022-10-30 12:35:50.965097+00
name: Richmond's Platinum Celebration
ucname: RICHMONDS PLATINUM CELEBRATION
devised: 2022-01-01
notes:
  Devised for the 70th anniversary of the Richmond Branch (North Yorkshire).

  Source: youtube video <<https://youtu.be/SK8gIrSRt5k>> and <<https://www.rscds-richmondnorthyorks.org.uk/videos>>.


created: 2022-10-01 08:51:28.433207+00
last_modified: 2022-10-07 07:03:31.386194+00
name: Reel for Bessie, A
ucname: REEL FOR BESSIE
intensity_bars: 800/844/844/844
devised: 2019-10-17
notes:
  Bessie Keun has been my accompanist and a friend since my university days. She is an excellent musician, has the patience of Job, seems to manage a 26 hour day with a smile but above all, she has a heart of gold. 


created: 1997-04-03 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-10-11 14:46:10.478485+00
name: Heart of Midlothian, The
ucname: HEART OF MIDLOTHIAN
notes:
  The old Edinburgh Tolbooth, "The Heart of Midlothian", was for many years a prison for debtors and criminals. Demolished in 1817, its site is marked in the causeway by a heart-shaped design.


created: 2022-10-01 08:10:59.625936+00
last_modified: 2022-10-13 07:04:27.206122+00
name: Elephants Dancing on Tip-Toes
ucname: ELEPHANTS DANCING ON TIPTOES
intensity_bars: 8888/8888/8080/8888/8888/8484/8888/8484
devised: 2019-01-01
notes:
  This dance is dedicated to Isabel Walker on the occasion of her 70th birthday. In her youth, Isabel was trampled by an African elephant, and was fortunate to survive the incident. I think that the elephant never meant to harm her, and when I heard the story, I had a picture in my mind of the elephant delicately doing its version of a sword dance over terrified Isobel, hence the title. In recent years Isobel has enjoyed cycling, and so you will see wheels and a chain in the dance.  

  To make up the 64 bars, and to accommodate the Schiehallion reels, the composer suggests that the tune be played ABABCABC. 


created: 2022-03-01 00:13:34.366025+00
last_modified: 2022-10-09 11:08:57.939669+00
name: Blue Sky, Yellow Sun
ucname: BLUE SKY YELLOW SUN
intensity_bars: 8888/0880/8888/4884
devised: 2022-02-26
notes:
  This dance was written the Saturday after the invasion of Ukraine. In London the weather was fine. I went out walking but kept thinking of those suffering far away. The combination of the yellow sun in a pale blue sky reminded me of the Ukrainian flag which gave me the title.

  Later, Wouter Joubert kindly offered his tune *<<ddt:And when it rains...#14702>>* which he has dedicated "in support of peace and to all those who are bullied by tyrants".

  Wouter has made a 4x32 recording of this (with three other tunes) which is available via <<https://my.strathspey.org/u/murrough/recording/>>.


created: 2002-12-16 23:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-10-14 20:24:21.508878+00
name: Hastings Welcome, A
ucname: HASTINGS WELCOME
intensity_bars: 5552 5552 8880 8888
devised: 1997-01-01
notes:
  From the dance notes: This dance was written in appreciation of the fantastic welcome Bill received on stepping onto the platform of Hastings station (New Zealand). He was met by dancers (led by Val Mitchell) and a piper and was given royal treatment during his visit.


created: 2020-02-19 22:39:02.420703+00
last_modified: 2022-12-04 10:37:34.640979+00
name: Salute to Bill Hamilton
ucname: SALUTE TO BILL HAMILTON
intensity_bars: 8888/8080/8888/4484
devised: 2019-01-01
notes:
  Devised by Alex Milligan and friends in 2019 to recognise the work and commitment by Bill Hamilton to promote the enjoyment of Scottish Country Dancing over the last 60 years.


created: 1997-04-03 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-12-18 20:22:18.016213+00
name: Carswellian Revel, The
ucname: CARSWELLIAN REVEL
devised: 1974-12-01
notes:
  The author says in the sheet: "To Barbara Quicke who introduced me to SCD. Her enthusiasm became instilled in me and inspired me to devise this collection of dances."


created: 1997-04-03 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-10-20 11:44:20.197992+00
name: Craigleith
ucname: CRAIGLEITH
intensity_bars: 8228/8888/8888/8888
notes:
  Although the instructions for 2nd & 3rd couples in bars 9-24 do not always mention which hand is used, they do describe their actions as "like J.B. Milne", so right hands can be assumed.


created: 1997-08-22 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-10-23 20:50:34.176933+00
name: Windmills Are Turning
ucname: WINDMILLS ARE TURNING
notes:
  The dance notes say this was devised "following a visit to Kinderdijk, near Rotterdam, HolIand. This locality is unique for its rows of windmills, nineteen in total, dating from the eighteenth century, all of whIch are still functional. All the left and right hands across figures in this dance represent the sails of the mills turning in the wind.


created: 2002-11-02 23:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-12-22 18:31:37.90714+00
name: St. Abb's Head Reel, The
ucname: SAINT ABBS HEAD REEL
devised: 1998-01-01
notes:
  This was originally entered in the datbase as "Saint Abb's Head Reel" but the instructions give the title as "The St. Abb's Head Reel".


created: 2022-09-27 13:26:00.252745+00
last_modified: 2022-10-25 19:38:34.908109+00
name: At the Library
ucname: AT THE LIBRARY
intensity_bars: 800/888/844/888/888
notes:
  I wrote the danse during my shift at the library using the formation danced the previous day during our class at Saint Quay Perros.


created: 2015-09-26 19:27:02.304768+00
last_modified: 2022-10-24 22:32:15.545325+00
name: Breakfast with Alligators
ucname: BREAKFAST WITH ALLIGATORS
intensity_bars: 840/888/844/844
notes:
  Ann and Ron Walker are super hosts and even provided a special breakfast display of alligators, one having its breakfast while we had ours


created: 2017-10-28 22:35:56.189604+00
last_modified: 2022-10-26 13:29:37.507903+00
name: Chemnitz Loopings
ucname: CHEMNITZ LOOPINGS
devised: 2014-08-13
notes:
  From the dance description: The danced was devised by Undine Meister, Gabriele Schrader-Ladewig, Kristina Helle, Albrecht Meister and Thomas Gro&szlig; on 8. and 13. August 2014 during some 2 couple
  exercises.

  The dance description was online available at http://www.scd-chemnitz.de/tanze/ - however, the Scottish Dance Group in Chemnitz seemingly has dissolved and thus also the server does not exist anymore.

  The description is now available again both via the e-cribs site and <<https://www.folkverein-chemnitz.de/scd/Chemnitz_Loopings.pdf>>.


created: 2022-10-01 08:31:28.687036+00
last_modified: 2022-10-28 21:39:21.460099+00
name: Inspired by Diamonds
ucname: INSPIRED BY DIAMONDS
intensity_bars: 822/822/833/833
devised: 2019-11-21
notes:
  The dance was inspired by the "half diamond reels of four" in <<ddp:Drewry, John#108>>'s dance "<<ddd:Diamond Set in Silver, A#7679>>".


created: 1997-09-14 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-11-01 19:30:16.204023+00
name: Tamworth Chase
ucname: TAMWORTH CHASE
intensity_bars: 800/888/888/844
notes:
  For several years, members of clubs in the Hunter Valley Branch attended the Highland Gathering at Tamworth. We would meet with friends from Queensland and to reduce costs, would bed down children in the rooms of those who came without. There was much chasing from one room to another with sashes and items of clothing as we made our preparations. It was a lot of fun, and with a handshake at the end, came the greeting "See you next year".


created: 2022-10-16 21:02:16.166787+00
last_modified: 2022-11-03 12:57:47.368783+00
name: House Keys of Lisbon, The
ucname: HOUSE KEYS OF LISBON
intensity_bars: 666/666/888/888
devised: 2020-11-01
notes:
  The title was inspired by a BBC news article about a Portuguese law allowing descendants of Jews expelled in the 15th and 16th centuries to return and claim citizenship.
  Apparently a few families who took refuge in Istanbul still have keys to the houses in Lisbon that they were forced to leave centuries ago.
  These keys have been passed down as family heirlooms.
  For more details see <<https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/Turning_Portuguese>>.

  Those keen on symbolism can imagine the six dancers starting at the points of a Star of David and that the hands across and turns represent keys in locks.

  The tune, <<ddt:Slockit Light, Da#7803>>, was written by fiddler Tom Anderson as a lament for the lights of houses in Shetland being extinguished as people moved away. It seemed an appropriate choice.

  This dance also provides an opportunity to thank several people that I know in Lisbon: firstly Adriana Duarte for organising the Curia weekends; also <<ddp:Monteiro, Isabel#11225>> and <<ddp:Neves, Isabel#11150>> for devising lovely dances; and Barbara Gray, Joana Ferreira, Roger Picken and Sue Willdig for running the Carcavelos, Lapa and Telheiras SCD groups.


created: 1997-04-03 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-11-05 11:15:33.24072+00
name: Connaghtman's Rambles
ucname: CONNAGHTMANS RAMBLES
notes:
  Until Nov 2022, the dance was listed as "Connaughtman's Rambles", connecting it to a tune of that spelling. It was then reverted to its original publication name "Connaghtman's Rambles".


created: 1997-09-14 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-11-08 15:54:23.223243+00
name: Swelkie, The
ucname: SWELKIE
intensity_bars: 800 888 444 444
notes:
  The Swelkie is a tidal whirlpool, near Stroma in the Pentland Firth. In days gone by, folk believed that
  there were a pair of millstones under the Swelkie which ground the salt to make the sea salty.


created: 1997-09-14 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-11-08 16:33:53.233739+00
name: Snakes And Ladders
ucname: SNAKES AND LADDERS
devised: 1978-05-01
notes:
  "Snakes and Ladders" is a children's board game "for wet weather". One climbs up the ladders and slides down the snakes, eventually making it -- in this case to the bottom of the set. Bars 1-8 represent the board, 9- 16 the dice box and counters, and 17-32 the ladders (crossing) and snakes (circles). This dance is dedicated to the Brookline class of the Boston Branch, RSCDS, and was first published in the Tartan Times for May 1978.


created: 1997-09-14 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-11-08 16:53:46.484207+00
name: Shieling, The
ucname: SHIELING
intensity_bars: 844/888/888/888
notes:
  Originally published by Jean in the leaflet “Inveran Bridge and three more Scottish Country Dances”.  

  Written for Daisy and Eddie Cassie who retired to their shieling in Oxfordshire in 1984. Eddie was President of the Harwell Caledonian Society for many years.


created: 2002-04-08 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-11-08 20:43:54.689829+00
name: Seagreen
ucname: SEAGREEN
intensity_bars: 828 888 828 844
devised: 1989-01-01
notes:
  The notes say: 'the dance is dedicated to the members of the Paris Branch who have invited me to teach there in June 1989. Thomas Carlyle, in a well-known phrase, described Robespierre as "The seagreen incorruptible".'


created: 1997-09-13 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-11-08 23:07:11.996835+00
name: Schoon's Bairn
ucname: SCHOONS BAIRN
devised: 1981-07-15
notes:
  The dance notes say this was devised to celebrate the birth of Jacob Kenneth Schoon, July 15, 1981. The movements of the dance represent the danceIli meeting. greeting, and exclaiming over Jacob's arrival. The original instructions were for reel time, but the dance has come 10 be done in jig lime to the tune of "Just As I Was In The Morning."


created: 1997-04-03 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-11-27 16:42:28.807839+00
name: Morpeth Town
ucname: MORPETH TOWN
devised: 1991-03-01
notes:
  From the notes: "It is in Morpeth that the Hunter Valley Branch of the RSCDS holds a weekend school to mark the start of the dancing season. Morpeth was at one time an important river port and terminus for sea traffic from Sydney. It boasts many buildings from the early 19th century many of which have been restored."


created: 2022-11-30 23:30:24.536611+00
last_modified: 2022-11-30 23:30:24.536611+00
name: Stone Mountain Strathspey
ucname: STONE MOUNTAIN STRATHSPEY
notes:
  There is a once through video at <<https://rscds-atlanta.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Video.mov>>.


created: 2022-11-18 14:05:59.977363+00
last_modified: 2022-11-18 15:58:25.552004+00
name: One Foot in Front of the Other
ucname: ONE FOOT IN FRONT OF THE OTHER
intensity_bars: 880/888/844/844
devised: 2020-02-01
notes:
  Devised by Sara Gratiot in February 2020 for Anneliese Suter, who has been putting one foot in front of the other every day as she danced, hiked, and quietly made many wonderful friends on a joyous journey to her 85th birthday.


created: 2019-01-17 11:37:42.645812+00
last_modified: 2022-11-12 09:37:14.92255+00
name: Yellow-Haired Laddie Quadrille
ucname: YELLOWHAIRED LADDIE QUADRILLE
notes:
  Arranged by Gerry Gray, Prince Edward Island.  

  Repeat the dance in jig time. Some changes will be necessary:  During the Grand Square, the HEAD dancers should dance out of the centre rather than retire. Also, in the Grand Square, pas de basque should be used when turning with both hands in Bars 13-16 and 29-32. Otherwise, the dance is the same.    

    
  This quadrille (square dance) is based on the country-dance of the same name published in RSCDS Book 12. Each section is suggested by actions in the original dance. However, by dancing in a square and having four active couples instead of two, very little similarity is apparent.  
    
  Suggested Music: “Yellow Haired Laddie” – Bobby Brown – Grandfather Mountain Gala.  

  As there is no Yellow Haired Laddie in Jig Time, I recommend using “Selection of Jigs (4x32)” – Bobby Brown – Any Good Dance Any Good Tune.


created: 1997-08-22 22:00:00+00
last_modified: 2022-11-12 18:43:48.952039+00
name: Ronda Blue
ucname: RONDA BLUE
intensity_bars: 88 66 88 88
devised: 1986-06-10
notes:
  The notes say that this was devised "following a visit to the Andalusian town of Ronda in Southern Spain on 10th June 1986. Ronda is an ancient Moorish stronghold and is rich in mediaeval Arabic architecture, characterised by its regular geometric structUres. This dance, featuring several square and circular figures, is a representation of the Ronda buildings, and takes its name from the blue sky above the town on Ihat June morning."


