{"id":974,"date":"2025-03-07T22:10:50","date_gmt":"2025-03-08T02:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ottawadancescottish.org\/?p=974"},"modified":"2025-03-07T22:10:50","modified_gmt":"2025-03-08T02:10:50","slug":"dances-for-march-10-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ottawadancescottish.org\/?p=974","title":{"rendered":"Dances for March 10, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ardbrae Dancers of Ottawa<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Video: THE IRISH ROVER<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

THE IRISH ROVER<\/strong>
TWENTY-TWO SCOTTISH COUNTRY DANCES by James B. Cosh and TWO OTHERS
(Reel \u2013 32 Bars)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1 \u2013 8 First couple lead through third couple, cast up one place on own side; first woman wheel right hand with second couple, first man wheel right hand with third couple.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

9 \u2013 12 First couple dance half reels of four with first corners, then<\/p>\n\n\n\n

13 \u2013 16 half reels of four with second corners. At end of reels first couple turn left hand in centre ready to<\/p>\n\n\n\n

17 \u2013 24 give left shoulders to person in first corner\u2019s position for two reels of three across the dance. First couple finish in second place, own side.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

25 \u2013 26 First couple change places with person in their first corner\u2019s position (i.e. first lady right hand to third lady and first man right hand to second man).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

27 \u2013 28 Change left hands on sides; first lady with second man, first man with third lady. (First corners now back in original places.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

29 \u2013 30 First lady changes places, giving right hand to third man (in second lady\u2019s position), while first man changes places, giving right hand to second lady (in third man\u2019s position).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

31 \u2013 32 First and second ladies and first and third men change places, giving left hands on own side of the dance.The order is now 2, 1, 3, 4.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Repeat from second place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tune \u2013 \u201cThe Irish Rover\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Video: Charles Stuart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Charles Stuart<\/strong>
Miss Milligan\u2019s Miscellany of Scottish Country Dances
32-bar strathspey for three couples in a four-couple longwise set<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1 \u2013 8 1st couple set and, giving right hands, cross over, cast off below 3rd couple, lead up the middle and cross to original places.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

9 \u2013 16 1st couple lead down the middle and up and cast off one place to face first corners. 2nd couple step up on bars 15-16.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

17 \u2013 24 1st couple turn first corners with the right hand, partner with the left hand, second corners with the right hand and, giving left hand to partner, cross over to second place on own sides.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

25 \u2013 28 2nd, 1st and 3rd couples advance one step and retire one step twice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

29 \u2013 32 2nd, 1st and 3rd couples, giving both hands, turn partners once round.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Repeat, having passed a couple.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ladies\u2019 Pocket Book, 1794.
Customary tune: any strathspey<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ardbrae Dancers of Ottawa Video: THE IRISH ROVER THE IRISH ROVERTWENTY-TWO SCOTTISH COUNTRY DANCES by James B. Cosh and TWO OTHERS(Reel \u2013 32 Bars) 1 \u2013 8 First couple lead through third couple, cast up one place on own side; first woman wheel right hand with second couple, first man wheel right hand with third … Continue reading Dances for March 10, 2025<\/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":[20,24,4,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-8x32-reels","category-8x32-strathspeys","category-ardbrae","category-ardbrae-spring-2025"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawadancescottish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974","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=974"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawadancescottish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":975,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawadancescottish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974\/revisions\/975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawadancescottish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawadancescottish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawadancescottish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}