| Set: | 3 couple longways. |
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| Music: | Mairi's Wedding, quite fast, ABBABx3. |
| Acknowledgements: | A blatant ripoff of the Scottish Country Dance Mairi's Wedding. |
| History: | We've done this multiple times so it deserves a place in the hall of fame, but it's hard to get right and only really worth the effort for Scottish dancers. So it's not really considered mainstream repertoire. |
| This is a progressive dance, done three times through, although there are some differences between the three times. | ||||
| Time 1 | ||||
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| 1&2: | ||||
| 1-2 | Take right arm hold and salute immediately; go once around to face starting positions. | |||
| 3-4 | Drop arms and cast into middle. | |||
| 5-8 | Take left arm hold without saluting; go round once and a bit to face first corners (1 face 6, 2 face 3). | |||
| While 3&4: | ||||
| 1-2 | Stand still. | |||
| 3 | Start stepping, turning a quarter to face up. | |||
| 4 | Move up to top of set. | |||
| 5 | Quarter turn to face partner. | |||
| 6 | Step backwards into place and finish standing. | |||
| 7-8 | Remain standing. | |||
| While 5&6: | ||||
| 1-8 | Remain standing.
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| All: | ||||
| 9-12 | First corners (3&6) dance half a hey with 1&2,
finishing standing in each other's places. Start by 6&3 passing right shoulders with 1&2 respectively. 1&2 dance round their corner and pass left shoulders in the centre of the set, facing their second corner (1 face 4, 2 face 5).
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| 13-16 | Repeat 9-12 with second corners (4&5). Finish 1 facing 6 again, 2 facing 3. | |||
| 17-20 | Repeat 9-12 with first corners. | |||
| 21-24 | Repeat 9-12 with second corners. 1&2 finish in the middle of lines of three at each end of the set, facing 6&3 respectively.
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| 25-30 | 6 steps of a zig-zag
hey for 3. As you get to one end of the line (2&5 positions) you need to do the back turn on the right foot and therefore pull your left shoulder back to turn. The other end is a normal left-footed back turn. 1&2 finish at the ends of their lines, making sure not to change places with 5&4 respectively on beat 30.
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| 31-32 | Step on the spot, forming a circle.
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| 33-40 | Shoulder
star right once around, finishing in set in progressed places.
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| Time 2 | ||||
| Top couple (3&4): | ||||
| 1-8 | As 1&2 before. | |||
| While middle couple (1&2): | ||||
| 1 | Step on the spot. | |||
| 2 | Quarter turn to face down. | |||
| 3 | Move down to bottom of set. | |||
| 4 | Quarter turn to face partner and finish standing. | |||
| 5-8 | Remain standing. | |||
| While bottom couple (5&6): | ||||
| 1 | Step forwards towards partner. | |||
| 2 | Quarter turn to face up. | |||
| 3-4 | Step up to top position. | |||
| 5 | Quarter turn to face partner. | |||
| 6 | Step backwards into place and finish standing. | |||
| 7-8 | Remain standing. | |||
| All: | ||||
| 9-24 | Heys as time 1 from new positions, except: As corners pass one another they turn 360° over their right shoulder, timing to face one another as the pass in the middle of the set. In each group of 4 beats, corners clap their own hands on beat 2A, then clap hands with the other corner on beat 2B as they pass one another. | |||
| 25-40 | As time 1 from new positions. | |||
| Time 3 | ||||
| As time 2 from new positions, except: | ||||
| 9-24 | Corners, instead of heys, pass active person right shoulder,
meet in center of set, take right arm hold, go once
around and return to place. Active couple dance figure as before. | |||
| 39 | (Step 7 of shoulder star): Drop hands in starting position. | |||
| 40 | Face out and hoy. | |||
| No lead off; wait until you the signal from the musicians and walk straight out into audience in the direction you're facing. | ||||