Whitewater on the James

for my son, Jonathan – who’d rather be rafting!

Original Tune: ‘The James in Spate’ (John Turner) © Fiddletree Music, 2004.

Suggested Recording: ‘The Rendezvous’ from Ghillies on the Golden Gate by Fiddlesticks and Ivory.

8 x 32R for 3 couples in a 4C set devised by Moira Turner

Eddies

1 – 4 1^st couple and 3^rd couple right hand ½ turn & twirl to change places with partner.

5 – 6 1^st couple, 2^nd couple, and 3^rd couple set.

7 – 8 1^st couple and 3^rd couple cross right hand.

A Hydraulic

9 – 16 1^st couple and 2^nd couple Set and Rotate. 1^st couple finish facing person on their right (partner’s 2^nd corner) at the end of bar 16. (All turn shortest way - 1^st woman by the right.)

A Boil

17 – 20 1^st couple set to partner’s 2^nd corner and change places left hand on the sideline (with polite turns). (FIG. 2)

21 – 24 1^st couple and their 1^st corners (in 1^st and 3^rd places), petronella turn into the centre of the dance (FIG. 3) and set.

Holes and Haystacks

25 – 26 1^st couple change places right hand with their 1^st corners in the centre of the dance

WHILE

2^nd corners (in 2^nd place own side) dance anti-clockwise to the ends of the line in the centre of the dance. (FIG. 4)

27 - 28    All 3 couples change places with partner left hand and finish facing partner. (FIG. 5)

29 - 32   All 3 couples petronella turn to own sideline and set. (FIG. 6)

Repeat the dance having passed a couple. On the 2^nd repetition, 1^st couple dances down to 4^th place on the last 2 bars making a shallow curve around 4^th couple (no hands) and a long turn into place as 4^th couple steps up ready to begin.

April, 2004

“Set and Rotate”

9 – 10 1st and 2nd couples, joining nearer hands on the sides, set to partners, beginning to pull back the right shoulder on the second step.

11 – 12 All cast one place clockwise around the square formed by the 2 couples to finish men facing down, women facing up.

At the end of bar 12, 1^st couple should be just inside the women’s sideline while 2^nd couple are just inside the men’s. (FIG. 1)

13 – 16 1^st and 2^nd couples change places right hands with partner and chase one place clockwise to own sides, 1^st couple finishing in second place and 2^nd couple in top place.

Condensed from the RSCDS Manual of SCD (1997) p. 6.53