Start Dancing! (PDF)
Manufacturer: Anne Thorn
24 Fun and Easy Scottish Country Dances for use in schools, at Days of Dance, Festivals and for beginners and 8 Popular Ceilidh Dances
Compiled and edited by members of TAS Teachers’ Association Scotland
The music is available from Bandcamp (either full CD or individual tracks) for the Start Dancing! book. £12 for CD, £1 per track.
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Introduction to Teachers
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Videos and other resources . . . . . . . . 4
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Five types of country dance. . . . . . . . 4
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The formations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
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Before you teach the dances . . . . . . . 5
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Basic steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
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Using music . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
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Couples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
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Teaching a dance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
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Making up your own dance . . . . . . . . 8
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Organising a school ceilidh . . . . . . . . 8
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Other resources. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
24 Easy Scottish Country Dances
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The Way to the Festival . . . . . . . . . . 12
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Fife Capers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
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The Piano Player. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
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The Loon Mountain Reel. . . . . . . . . . 15
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The Alloway Reel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
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The Clootie Dumpling . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
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My Friend Jim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
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Miltonduff Meeting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
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Miss Ross’s Delight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
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The Stone of Scone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
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Reel for Chocolate Bourbons . . . . . 22
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The Buckshaw Reel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
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Good Hearted Glasgow . . . . . . . . . . 24
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The Jindalee Jig . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
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Profiteroles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
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Kelly’s Kaper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
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The Brodick Reel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
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Burnt Tatties. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
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The Clockwork Orange . . . . . . . . . . 30
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Colquhoun Square . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
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The Third Forth Bridge . . . . . . . . . . . 32
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Fairground Fun . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
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Catch me if you can! . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
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Galloway Lads and Lassies. . . . . . . . 35
8 Popular Ceilidh Dances
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The Gay Gordons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
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The Canadian Barn Dance . . . . . . . . 39
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The Dashing White Sergeant . . . . . 40
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The Virginia Reel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
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The Flying Scotsman. . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
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Strip the Willow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
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The Circassian Circle . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
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The Eightsome Reel . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Terms used in the Dances . . . . . . . . 47