Week 6

Step Practice

• Bas de basque
• Set left, set right, skip change right, skip change left, set left, set right, ...

The exercise was aimed at helping men (and ladies dancing as men) to change feet for a poussette and back again at the end of the poussette.

Clydeside Lassies
8 x 32 Reel (2 couple) MMM1
Contains:

• Circle
• Poussette

The Banks of Clyde
8 x 32 Strathspey MMM1
Contains:

• Rondel

Week 5

The Yellow-Haired Laddie
4 x 64 Minuet (3/4) Book 12

The dance is a lot easier than Tweedside although the step still takes some getting used to. The phrasing is a bit awkward in places.


Le Moulin Rouge
64 Reel Book 39
Contains:

• Wheel chain
  
• Rosace

We also tried out something with the poussette for the SUSCDF demonstration.

Week 4

No class due to school half-term.

Week 3

A Trip to the Drakensberg
8 x 40 Jig Book 38
Contains:

• Poussette
  
• 3 couple allemande

This is one of New Scotland's demonstration dances for the year.

Tweedside
3 x 36 Minuet (3/4) Book 19.

The hard thing about this dance is getting the hang of the step and the 6 bar phrasing.

Week 2

Laird of Milton's Daughter
8 x 32 Jig Book 22
Contains:

• Corner chains

Bubbles in the Pond
8 x 32 Strathspey Delaware Valley Book
Contains:

• Tourbillon

Dancers are meant to get out to the sidelines in the "bubbling up" movement (bars 17-24).