One Blue Cloud in the Grey Sky

40-bar reel for three couples in a three-couple longwise set

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See this dance in the Scottish Country Dance Database.

1–8

1st couple set, cast off one place and dance a half figure of eight around 2nd couple. 2nd couple step up on bars 3-4.

9–16

1st couple set, dance a half figure of eight around 3rd couple and set advancing to finish facing first corners.

17–32

1st couple dance corner pass and turn with their first corners and repeat with their second, third and fourth corners, finishing on their own sides in second position.

33–40

1st couple set, cast off one place. 3rd couple step up on bars 35-36. 1st couple turn right hand in four bars.

Repeat from new positions.

Devised by Claire Cunin and Nicolas “Niols” Jeannerod in May 2018. This dance is a three-couple version of “Two Blue Clouds in the Grey Sky”.

Recommended music: Forty Bars of Clouds, by Nicolas “Niols” Jeannerod.