Tour Scotland Video Gay Gordons Scottish Country Dance Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of Gay Gordons Scottish Country Dance at the food market on ancestry visit to Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. The Dunedin Dancers are a wonderful Scottish Dancing group from Edinburgh. The Gay Gordons is a popular dance at a ceilidh and other kind of informal and social dancing event. It is an old time dance, of a type very popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, in which every couple dances the same steps, usually in a circle.

Dance Description
Right hands joined over lady's shoulder, man's arm behind her back, and left hands joined in front, walk forward for four steps, starting on the right foot.
Still moving in the same direction, and without letting go, pivot on the spot, so left hand is behind lady and right hand is in front, and take four steps backwards.
Repeat in the opposite direction.
Drop left hands, raise right hands above lady's head. Lady pivots on the spot. The man may set.
Joining hands in ballroom hold, polka round the space

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