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.
Devised by various MSCD members, July 1996
S32 - 3C
The royal couple separate, briefly reconcile, then decide to part forever.
- 1-8
1C CAST OFF, LEAD between 3C, CAST OFF to face 1st corners (2C dance up on 3-4)
They make new friends.
- 9-16
1C SET AND TURN CORNERS
They attempt to avoid the reporters and photographers.
- 17-22
REELS OF THREE, LS
- 23-24
1C PASS RS to end in 2nd place on wrong sides, while 2C and 3C CROSS OVER giving RH
Clients and lawyers confer, and finally a settlement is reached.
- 25-30
1C RETIRE ONE STEP AND ADVANCE ONE STEP three times, while 2C and 3C ADVANCE ONE STEP AND RETIRE ONE STEP, first diagonally, then up and down the set, then diagonally
- 31-32
1C CROSS OVER passing RS, 2C and 3C CROSS OVER giving RH
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
32R - 3C
- 1-4
1C, 2C, & 3C ADVANCE AND RETIRE
- 4-8
1C, 2C, & 3C CROSS giving RH and CHASE halfway to lines across the dance
- 9-12
1C, 2C, & 3C ADVANCE AND RETIRE
- 13-16
1C, 2C, & 3C CROSS giving LH and CHASE halfway back to place
- 17-24
1C, 2C, & 3C SIX HANDS ROUND and back
- 25-28
1C FIGURE OF EIGHT halfway around 2C
- 29-32
1C CROSS giving RH and CAST into 2nd place on own sides, 2C moving up on bars 31-32
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.
- 1-8
1C, 2C, 3C and 4C CIRCLE 8H ROUND TO LEFT HALFWAY; retaining hands, they SET ADVANCING; then pulling R shoulder back, they DANCE OUT to new places in the square. Meanwhile, 5C and 6C SET TO PARTNERS, SET DIAGONALLY facing in and dance LH ACROSS to end 5C facing 3C, 6C facing 1C.
- 9-16
5C, 6C, 3C and 1C dance REELS OF FOUR. End with 3C and 1C returning to place, 5C and 6C omitting last L shoulder pass, ending facing 4C and 2C. (5M and 6M turning over R shoulder to do so)
- 17-24
5C, 6C, 4C and 2C dance REELS OF FOUR. End with 4C and 2C returning to place, 5C and 6C omitting last L shoulder pass, ending facing corners. (5M and 6M turning over R shoulder to do so)
- 25-28
RH ACROSS at the corners [teapots] (5M with 4M, 1W; 5W with 1M, 2W; 6M with 2M, 3W; 6W with 3M, 4W)
- 29-30
5C and 6C LH ACROSS halfway; others dance around the square to left one place (1/4)
- 31-32
5C with 2C, 6C with 4C RH ACROSS halfway; 1C, 3C TURN partner RH
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Fried de Metz Herman
Waltz mixer; circle of couples. Face partners, men on inside of circle, women on outside.
- 1-4
Gipsy partner, right shoulder
- 5-8
Turn L diagonal person by LH
- 9-12
Gipsy partner, left shoulder
- 13-16
Turn R diagonal person by RH
- 17-20
Chassee partner 2 steps to man's L (CCW), and men turn partners under LH to form one big circle, all facing out
- 21-24
All balance foward and back, and men turn woman on RH forward and around into ballroom hold
- 25-32
Waltz around the circle, CCW, with new partner
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