To: strathspey:strathspey.org
From: Volleyballjerry:aol.com
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 12:01:37 EST
Subject: Rob Roy

Eric, the following is not exactly "as written," though the resulting
dance  itself  is  identical.   I  simply  find it easier to teach it
according to the following. Someone else might then like to send Eric
the exact wording from the original instructions. (This is a longtime
local favorite in Southern  California,  which  we  dance  often  and
always enjoy!)

ROB ROY:

1-16 (fugue; note the order of starting is C1, 3, 2, 4):

C1: Set, turn (2 bars), dance outside  set  lines  to  bottom,  meet,
dance  out through third place to top, meet again, dance down and out
(minimally) through second place to end in third  place  facing  down
and inward for mirror reels of 4.

C3: Tacit four bars, set, turn (2 bars), dance outside set to bottom,
meet,  dance  out  through  third place to top to end facing down and
inward for mirror reels of 4.

C2: Tacit eight bars, set, turn (2 bars), dance a "loop" out and down
through  third  place  (not to bottom) and up (inward) to end back in
second place facing up and outward for mirror reels of 4.

C4: Tacit twelve bars, set, turn (2 bars)  to  end  in  fourth  place
facing up and outward for mirror reels of 4.

17-24:

Mirror reels of four (left shoulder for women).

25-32:

C1 and C3 (in third and first places respectively)  set  twice,  turn
spiraling down one position (4 bars).

WHILE

C2 and C4 (in their original places) cast up, cross down, cast up (on
opposite sides), cross over. (This must flow quickly, directly out of
the reels of 4 without hesitation.)

(now ready to begin again with new C1; original C1 is now  in  fourth
place, C2 in first, C3 in second, and C4 in third)

Robb Quint
Thousand Oaks, CA, USA