{"id":371,"date":"2018-04-25T20:33:25","date_gmt":"2018-04-26T00:33:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ottawadancescottish.org\/?p=371"},"modified":"2018-05-03T19:06:49","modified_gmt":"2018-05-03T23:06:49","slug":"dances-for-march-30-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ottawadancescottish.org\/?p=371","title":{"rendered":"Dances for April 30, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Video: MacLeod\u2019s Fancy<\/a><\/p>\n

MacLeod\u2019s Fancy
\nRSCDS Book XXXIII \u2013 No.3
\n(Jig)<\/p>\n

1\u20132 1st and 4th couples set facing diagonally inwards.<\/p>\n

3\u20138 1st man and 4th woman turn with the right hand three-quarters round; 1st man dances through 4th man\u2019s place and casts up to his original place, while 4th woman dances through 1st woman\u2019s place and casts off to her original place. Meanwhile, 1st woman casts off to 4th woman\u2019s place, and 4th man casts up to 1st man\u2019s place; they turn with the right hand three-quarters round to return to their original places where they stay facing out.<\/p>\n

9\u201316 All dance reels of four on own sides and finish as though going to repeat the reels.<\/p>\n

17\u201318 1st and 2nd men, 1st and 2nd women, 3rd and 4th men, and 3rd and 4th women, turn with the right hand half-way round to bring 1st and 4th couples into the middle of the set where they give left hands across and retain hold of the 2nd and 3rd couples with the right hand to form a St. Andrew\u2019s Cross.<\/p>\n

19\u201320 All set in the \u201cCross\u201d formation.<\/p>\n

21\u201324 1st and 2nd men, 1st and 2nd women, 3rd and 4th men, and 3rd and 4th women turn with the right hand once round, releasing hands at the end of bar 23 so that 1st couple can dance down to third place and 4th couple can dance up to second place. (1st man and 4th woman make polite turn.) The order is now 2, 4, 1, 3.<\/p>\n

25\u201326 1st and 4th couples, joining nearer hands on the sides, set to partners.<\/p>\n

27\u201328 1st and 4th couples cross over to opposite sides \u2013 the women retaining hold of nearer hands and dancing between their partners. On reaching opposite sides, the women turn away from each other, while the men turn toward each other.<\/p>\n

29\u201332 4th couple, joining right hands, lead up between 2nd couple crossing over to own sides and cast off to second place, while 1st couple joining left hands, lead down between 3rd couple crossing over to own sides and cast up to third place.<\/p>\n

Repeat from new places.<\/p>\n

Devised by John Drewry. Inscribed to Duncan MacLeod of Glasgow.
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\n21\u201324 All dance for 4 bars.<\/p>\n

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Video: The Ribblesdale Strathspey<\/a><\/p>\n

Video: The Ribblesdale Strathspey<\/a><\/p>\n

The Ribblesdale Strathspey
\nThe Ribble Valley Book of Scottish Country Dances<\/p>\n

A 32-bar strathspey for a 3-couple set.
\nTune: The Ribblesdale Strathspey.<\/p>\n

1\u201312 The 1st, 2nd, & 3rd couples dance rights and lefts for three couples.<\/p>\n

13 The 1st couple start mirror setting movement down the set, the man going to his right and the lady to her left, advancing to finish with both hands joined.<\/p>\n

14 The 1st couple finish mirror setting movement, moving back up the set and releasing the top hands.<\/p>\n

15\u201316 The 1st couple cast into 2nd place, the man leading with his right foot and the lady leading with her left foot as the joined hands are brought through the middle before releasing. 2nd couple step up.<\/p>\n

17\u201324 The 2nd and 1st couples dance a poussette right round.<\/p>\n

25\u201332 The 1st couple dance a figure of 8 round the 2nd couple, momentarily giving left hands on the first crossing and right hands on the second crossing. The 3rd couple step up on the last 2 bars as the 1st couple dance into 3rd place.<\/p>\n

Repeat with a new leading couple.<\/p>\n

Jeff Middleton composed this dance for the Ribble Valley Branch in recognition of the continuing success of the Branch. 16 October 2008.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Video: MacLeod\u2019s Fancy MacLeod\u2019s Fancy RSCDS Book XXXIII \u2013 No.3 (Jig) 1\u20132 1st and 4th couples set facing diagonally inwards. 3\u20138 1st man and 4th woman turn with the right hand three-quarters round; 1st man dances through 4th man\u2019s place and casts up to his original place, while 4th woman dances through 1st woman\u2019s place … Continue reading Dances for April 30, 2018<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ardbrae","category-ardbrae-2018"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawadancescottish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawadancescottish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawadancescottish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawadancescottish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawadancescottish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=371"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawadancescottish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":375,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawadancescottish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371\/revisions\/375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawadancescottish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawadancescottish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawadancescottish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}