Scottish Square Dancing

Sat, 08 Jan 2005 23:59:59 -800

Tonight was the monthly Scottish country dance at Tigard Grange. Unfortunately,
the hall was double-booked with the Tigard Tri-Square, a square-dancing group.
The organizers decided to split the dances half and half between square dances
and Scots. As far as the Scottish dancing went, we danced the usual familiar
routines--jigs, reels, chains, strathspeys, do-si-do's, and casts. Some day
I shall post some more information about what exactly entails Scottish country
dance, but for now I'll only say that it's line dancing various figures in
(usually) 32 beat measures. I'm slowly getting better at it. Perhaps a
demonstration in a few months.