Neidpath Castle

Neidpath Castle is a Scottish Country Dance. It was devised by Derek Haynes in 1963 and published in RSCDS Book 22. It is S3×32 3C, a proper 3 Couple Longways dance. In this dance the couples are permuted by: 231. St32. Someone thought this dance was Intermediate.

The animation plays at 120 counts per minute normally, but the first time through the set the dance will often be slowed down so people can learn the moves more readily. Men are drawn as rectangles, women as ellipses. Each couple is drawn in its own color, however the border of each dancer indicates what role they currently play so the border color may change each time through the minor set.

An online description of the dance may be found here.

The dance contains the following figures: hand turn (allemande), set, figure eight, rights and lefts, diamond poussette, grand chain (and probably others).

If you find what you believe to be a mistake in this animation, please leave a comment on youtube explaining what you believe to be wrong. If I agree with you I shall do my best to fix it.

If you wish to link to this animation please see my comments on the perils of youtube. You may freely link to this page, of course, and that should have no problems, but use one of my redirects when linking to the youtube video itself:
https://www.upadouble.info/redirect.php?id=NeidpathCastle

The dance is copyright © 1963 by Derek Haynes. My visualization of this dance is copyright © 2023 by George W. Williams V and is released under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

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