Dance Corstorphine Fair 1358

Jig · 40 bars · 4 couples · Longwise - 4 (Progression: 2341) · Usual number of repetitions: 4

Devised by

Margaret Hunter (1963)

Intensity

8888 8888 8888 5333 5333 = 77% (1 turn), 77% (whole dance)

Formations

Hands round - 8 - and back (HR;8P;BACK;)
Advance and Retire (ADVRET;2S;)
Clap (CLAP)

Steps

Pas-de-Basque, Skip-Change, Slip-Step

Published in

Corstorphine Fair [1]
Dancing Forth Too - CD booklet [5]
Scottish Country Dances in Diagrams. Ed. 8 [141] (diagram only)
Scottish Country Dances in Diagrams. Ed. 7 [127] (diagram only)
Scottish Country Dances in Diagrams. Ed. 6 [118] (diagram only)

Recommended Music

Extra Info

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1–8::
All four couples circle and back

9–16::
First couple cast off on own side followed by second, third
and fourth couples crossing over at foot of the dance and dancing up the wrong side.
(Phrasing – Cast off for 3, first couple cross over on bar 4, second on bar 5,
third on bar 6, fourth on bar 7, each woman crossing in front of partner.
On bar 8, all should be in two straight lines, facing up.

17–24::
All four couples facing top slip 4 steps to centre of dance,
women passing in front of men. Join nearer hands or link arms with partners
and dance two steps forward then two steps backward (Skip, change).
Then 4 slip steps to side lines. Women again pass in front of men.

25–32::
First woman changes places with second man giving right hands;
with third woman giving left hands; with fourth man giving right hands;
and on bars 7 and 8 all four couples turn on spot with 2 pas de basques,
clapping hands on bar 7.

33–40::
First man changes places with second woman giving left hands;
with third man giving right hands; with fourth woman giving left hands
and on bars 7 and 8 all four couples turn on spot with 2 pas de basques,
clapping hands on bar 7.

The leaflet also contains the sheet music for the tunes.

From a Strathspey message on 2012-09-21: Corstorphine (a suburb of Edinburgh) is pronounced much like the word endorphin.

Table rows with a green background denote recordings starting with one of the recommended tunes and the usual number of repetitions for the dance (4). A yellow background means a recording with one of the recommended tunes but a non-standard number of repetitions. Recordings with a red background use a different tune and possibly a non-standard number of repetitions.

Recordings whose titles are in italics are not explicitly linked to this dance but have been identified by the database based on the type, bar count, and recommended tune(s) of the dance.

	Name	Artist	Album	Media	Trk	Type	Time	Pace	Clip
	Corstorphine Fair	D McKerron / P Clark / A Evans / W Weatherby	Dancing Forth Too	CD	5	J40 4	3:09	37.8
	Corstorphine Fair	Ian Holmes and his Scottish Dance Band with Ian Powrie	Highlander Music Scottish Dances Vol 4	CD	10	J40 4	2:49	33.8

Corstorphine Fair 4/4L · J40

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1–
: All circle8 and back
9–
: 1c followed by 2c+3c+4c cast off behind sidelines {3} each cpl cross upwards, W passing in front of M, and dance up sidelines to (1x,2x,3x,4x) facing up
17–
: All slip across into NHJ, M passing behind W | all C advance up ; retire | slip back to opposite side, M passing behind W (1x,2x,3x,4x)
25–
: 1W+2M cross RH | 1W+3W cross LH ; 1W+4M cross RH | All clap and swivel R on the spot (2 PdB), 
33–
: 1M+2W cross LH | 1M+3M cross RH ; 1M+4W cross LH | all clap and swivel R (2,3,4,1)

E-cribs

Corstorphine Fair 4/4L · J40

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1-8
: All circle 8H round & back
9-16
: 1s followed by 2s+3s+4s cast to bottom, cross & dance up on opposite
  sides
17-24
: All (facing up) slip step sideways into centre (Ladies pass in front of
  Men), advance with partner & retire, slip step sideways back
25-32
: 1L crosses diagonally RH with 2M, LH with 3L, RH with 4M, all clap &
  turn on spot
33-40
: 1M crosses diagonally LH with 2L, RH with 3M, LH with 4L, all clap &
  turn on spot

MiniCribs

Keith Rose's Diagrams

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Name	Type	Date	Owner	Last changed
FSCDC Display 26 July 2014	Unknown	2014-07-26	Anselm Lingnau	July 5, 2014, 11:45 p.m.
Dancing with Jim Stott, Moscow	Unknown	2019-02-16	Taisiia Demicheva	Feb. 15, 2019, 11:44 a.m.
Bologna 19 Dec 2015	Unknown	2015-11-02	Odile Paraire	Nov. 3, 2015, 10:52 a.m.
20220531 - Bo'ness Class	Unknown	2022-05-31	Zsofia Jozsef	June 1, 2022, 12:30 a.m.
20190305 - Bo'ness Class	Unknown	2019-03-05	Zsofia Jozsef	March 8, 2019, 12:56 a.m.
FSCDC 8 July 2014	Class	2014-07-08	Anselm Lingnau	Nov. 4, 2014, 2:02 p.m.
20160815 - Edinburgh Stockbridge House Summer Dance	Unknown	2016-08-15	Zsofia Jozsef	July 28, 2016, 3:25 p.m.
Spring School (2023) - Vladimir	Unknown		Ussurey Dancer	April 29, 2023, 8:45 a.m.
Moscow branch of RSCDS October 2015 Ball	Unknown	2015-10-03	Anton Korobeynikov	Sept. 2, 2015, 10:58 p.m.

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Good for performance

Anselm Lingnau · Sept. 9, 2012, 12:40 a.m.

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This is a fun piece but a little unusual. We have used it in displays to good effect (see the video on this page).