Trip To Gretna Green

Trip To Gretna Green is a Scottish Country Dance. It was published by Unknown in about 0 in . It was interpreted by Betty Lee Barnes in about 0. It is a proper Triple Minor dance. J32

Gretna Green is the first village across the Scottish border (from England) on the old coach route from London to Edinburgh. It was a place to which young English couples would elope in order to get married (parental consent not being required in Scotland for minors as it was in England).

The animation plays at 120 counts per minute normally, but the first time through the set the dance is 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), cast, hey, hey for three, cross go below (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.

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