Ceilidh Dance Instructions

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Gay Gordons

Dashing White Sargeant

Strip the WIllow

Flying Scotsman

Eightsome Reel

Riverside Jig

Virginia Reel

Military Two-Step

St Bernard's Waltz

Canadian Barn Dance

Orcadian Strip the Willow

Britannia Two-Step

Borrowdale Exchange

Circassian Circle

Troika

Duke of Perth

Reel of the 51st

Pride of Erin Waltz

Swedish Masquerade

Cumberland Square Eight

Ceilidh Dance Instructions

 

Military Two-Step

Formation: couples around the room facing anti-clockwise, ladies on the right.

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Bars:       Description

 

1-2:           Lady with hand on man's shoulder, man with arm around waist, touch heel then toe of 

                  outer foot to ground twice, bouncing on the inner foot with each touch. 

 

3-4:          Walk forward for three steps then turn towards each other to face in the opposite 

                  direction. 

 

5-8:         Repeat in the opposite direction. 

 

9-10:       Facing partner and joining hands, bounce on both feet, then kick the right foot diagonally  

                 across the body.

 

11-12:      Repeat with left foot. 

 

13-16:     Polka around the room. 

               

                Repeat ad lib.