Table of Contents

A

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Adieu Mon Ami		Thomas Wilson 1814 RSCDS 1968		Triple Minor
Arthur's Seat		D. A. Young 1740 Jack McConachie 1960		Triple Minor
ATL 50		Lisa Guest ~2026		Triple Minor

B

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Boo Boo Sue McKinnell 2025 Triple Minor Boo ~ Dove Sue McKinnell 2025 Jessie Dove 2025 Duple Minor

E

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Edina's Pride		Alex Gray 1984		Triple Minor

F

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Forty and Counting		Malcolm Brown 2016		Triple Minor

H

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Highland Hi-Jinks		Deanna St. Amand 1999		Triple Minor

M

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Major Ian Stewart		John Drewry 1986		Triple Minor

R

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Les Remparts de Séville		Aliénor Latour 2014		Triple Minor
Rennie's Rant		Anne Clark 2016		Triple Minor

S

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
A Smile Says It All		Rebecca Fant 2025		Triple Minor
Sylvia, Priestess of Atlanta		Susan Tumlin 2024		Triple Minor

T

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
There's Nae Luck Aboot the Hoose There's Nae Luck Aboot the Hoose ~ RSCDS Thomas Wilson 1816 RSCDS 1935 Triple Minor

Warning: The figures for each dance is generated programmatically by regular expression matching and may be in error. Also, for old dances, they reflect the figures used by the interpreter which may not match those of the deviser.

Hello Goodbye Setting

Also known as: Set to Corners and Partner.

An online definition may be found here.

Bars: 6,8.

In this figure the 1s start back to back near 2nd place facing one of their corners, usually their first corners. They then perform one bar of setting to that corner, and on the next bar dance to 2nd place opposite side facing their partners. During this the 1st corners set back to them. Then the 1s set one bar to their partner, and use the next bar to dance to their second corner. They then set one bar to their 2nd corners, and on the next bar dance to the center line (either at top or bottom of the set) facing their partner, while the 2nd corner sets back.

Initially this was an eight bar figure and the final 2 bars were a petronella turn into home places, but may other ways of using those last two bars are also possible.

History

This figure was invented by the (R)SCDS for the dance Lady Susan Stewart's Reel (Book 5). The source of this dance has been lost, but I assume the figure is based on the old figure "set contrary corners" which does not have the 1s setting to their partners (other dances containing that figure were later given hello goodbye setting by the (R)SCDS).

Johnson, in his dance Highland Man kiss'd his Mother (which is not the same as the (R)SCDS dance of the same name) names a figure set contrary Corners and not turn but set Partners. It isn't clear to me exactly what this means, but it might be similar (the "and not turn" seems a reference to "set to and turn corners", I think Johnson was so used to this figure that if he only wanted people to set, he felt he needed to tell them not to turn). I don't think the (R)SCDS had access to Johnson in its early days, but maybe the figure pops up elsewhere.

See Also

• Set

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