Tour Scotland Travel Video 2019 New Year's Day The St. Bernard's Waltz Dance Pitlochry Highland Perthshire

Tour Scotland travel Blog of New Year's Day 2019 video of tourists and local Scots dancing the St. Bernard's Waltz Dance at the Street Ceilidh on ancestry visit to Pitlochry, Highland Perthshire, Scotland. The new year’s day street party, usually draws around 5,000 people into town.

Formation: couples around the room in ballroom hold heading anti-clockwise, ladies on the outside.
Music: waltzes.
Bars: Description
1-4: In ballroom hold, take three steps sideways towards the lady's right, man's left, then stamp both feet.
5-6: Take two steps sideways in the opposite direction.
7-8: Take two steps towards the centre of the room (lady heading forwards with right foot then left foot, man backwards with left foot then right).
9-10: Take two steps back out (same feet).
11-12: Lady turns about on the spot under the joined hands.
13-16: Waltz onwards round the dance area
Repeat ad lib.
17-24: Joining both hands, swing together (slightly to the right of partner) and away, then change places, turning the lady under the man's left arm while doing so. Repeat.
25-28: In ballroom hold, take two steps anti-clockwise, then two clockwise.
29-32: Waltz round the dance area.
Repeat ad lib.

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