The President's Dilemma

An 4x32 bar Jig for 4 couples in a 4-couple longwise set

Music: Davie's Brae (Jim Johnstone). Sorry, but this is copyright, so I can't put it on the web.

Bars 1-8: 1st couple with 2nd couple and 3rd couple with 4th couple dance right hands across and left hands back.
9-16: 1st and 3rd couples lead down the middle and back up to between 2nd and 4th couples respectively, men facing men and ladies facing ladies; 2nd and 4th couples having stepped up on bars 11 and 12.
17-24: 1st couple with 2nd couple and 3rd couple with 4th couple dance reels of four across the dance, all finishing back in original places.
25-28: 1st couple followed by 2nd, 3rd and 4th couples cast off to the bottom of the set.
29-32: 1st couple form an arch and 2nd, 3rd and 4th couples dance underneath and back up to new places.

Repeat from new positions.

Devised by Ian Brockbank. Copyright October 1996. Published in the New Scotland 50th Anniversary Collection of Scottish Country Dances.

This dance was written for Sophia Marriage, then president of New Scotland, when she complained that all dances containing reels of four contained other figures which were too complex for beginners.

If you try this dance, please let me know how you get on.


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