Sharon Heights Reel
					32-Bar Reel for 3 Couples in 4-Couple Set
	Bars
	1- 8	1st and 2nd couples dance right-hands and across and left-hands across. In bar 8, 1st man and 2nd woman dance out to place while 1st woman and 2nd man continue turning with left hands to finish back to back facing their partners in a diagonal line between the 1st man and 2nd woman. The men are facing down and the women up.
	
9-16	Using 6 pas de Basque steps, the diagonal line rotates counter-clockwise. The movement is simi-lar to hello-goodbye setting but with all 4 dancers moving. Bars 15 to 16 are danced with skip-change-of-step.
 9-10	All set right and then travel setting to the left into a line across the dance with 1st wom-an and 2nd man on the ends and their partners in the center facing them.
11-12	Repeat bars 9-10 into a line on the 2nd-corner diagonal, 1st man and 2nd woman on the ends and their partners in the center facing them.
13-14	Repeat bars 9-10 again into a line up and down the dance, with 1st woman and 2nd man on the ends and their partners in the center facing them.
15-16	2nd and 1st couples Petronella turn to progressed positions on own sides. 1st couple remain facing out.
	

17-20	1st couple dance corner pass and turn on the first diagonal, starting right shoulder around their 3rd corners (partner’s first corner) positions, finishing right shoulder to right shoulder facing their 4th corners (partner’s second corner).
	21-24	1st couple dance corner pass and turn on the second diagonal, starting right shoulder around their 4th corner position. 1st couple end in 2nd place on own sides, 1st man facing up and in and 1st woman facing down and in.
	25-32	2nd, 1st, and 3rd couples dance reels of 3 on own sides, 2nd and 1st men and 1st and 3rd women passing left shoulders to begin. Corners dance straight into place at end.
		

Repeat, having passed a couple.


Notes:	
The figure in bars 9-16, which could be viewed as a “poussette hello-goodbye without hands,” was de-vised by Barry Priddey in “Lang May Your Lum Reek” published in the Scottish Dance Archives in 1976. In that dance, Barry Priddey describes the figure without hands, and I have specified without hands in this dance also.

Recommended music:  Any good traditional reel or 32-bar modern reel

Devised by Kent Smith, March 2018.