Dance Instructions
Madison Scottish Country Dancers


The following dances are scheduled for various parties and performances, both past and future. Instructions are not widely available, and are reproduced for your convenience.

Royal Divorce

Devised by various MSCD members, July 1996
S32 - 3C

The royal couple separate, briefly reconcile, then decide to part forever.

They make new friends. They attempt to avoid the reporters and photographers. Clients and lawyers confer, and finally a settlement is reached.

Ann Lindsey’s Strathspey

32-3C in 4C set
by Charles Snowdon
1-2 1C & 2C set advancing toward partner 
3-6 1C & 2C dance around their partners 1.5 time spiraling out into partner’s
place (gypsy) 
7-8 Four hands round half way. 
9-16 1C & 3C repeat bars 1-8. 
17-20 1C dance up between 3C as they step down, and cast up around 2C as they
step down 
21-24 1C turn two hands end on side 
25-32 1C & 2C dance the knot  

Trip to Sucker Bay

32R - 3C


Twelvesome Reel

Barry Priddey: Twelvesome Reel and Four More SCD

Note: Instructions revised March 1996
1C, 2C, 3C and 4C are in a square set; 5C and 6C face each other in the center, 5C with backs to 3C and 6C with backs to 1C.

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The Wood Duck

Fried de Metz Herman

Waltz mixer; circle of couples. Face partners, men on inside of circle, women on outside.


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Last update: May 23, 2000
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