Dance Gang the Same Gate 2394

Also known as “Gang the same gait” (unofficial).

Strathspey · 32 bars · 3 couples · Longwise - 4 (Progression: 213)

Devised by

Milton Levy

Intensity

800 833 833 888 = 62% (1 turn), 47% (whole dance)

Formations

Reel of four - diagonal - half (REEL;DIAG;HALF;R4;)
Set and Link for three (SETLNK;3P;)

Steps

Strathspey setting, Strathspey travel

Published in

Book 36 (Frae A' The Airts, Vol 1) [4]
Scottish Country Dances Books 31 to 38 (Combined A5 edition) [44]
Pocket: Books 36,37,38 [4]
Scottish Country Dances in Diagrams. Ed. 9 [197] (diagram only)
Scottish Country Dances in Diagrams. Ed. 8 [250] (diagram only)
Scottish Country Dances in Diagrams. Ed. 7 [220] (diagram only)
Scottish Country Dances in Diagrams. Ed. 6 [212] (diagram only)

Recommended Music

Mrs Dalzell (Nathaniel Gow) (as “Mrs Dalzell of Dalzell Lodge”)

Extra Info: More usually written as ‘Gang the same gait’. It means simply, “go the same way” in both the literal and …

More usually written as ‘Gang the same gait’. It means simply, “go the same way” in both the literal and figurative senses of the expression.

“Gate” in Scottish is related to the Scandinavian “Gata”, meaning “Street”.

Further information from Bruce Herbold:

Milton Levy dance names (at least Abbot of Unreason as well as this one) draw on the writings of Sir Walter Scott. In The Heart of Mid Lothian a prisoner is bewailing his fate… "… in the book of Job: “He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head. He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone. And mine hope hath he removed like a tree.”

“Isna that ower true a doctrine?” said the prisoner “Isna my crown, my honour, removed? And what am I but a poor, wasted, wan-thriven tree, dug up by the roots, and flung out to waste in the highway, that man and beast may tread it under foot? I thought o’ the bonny bit them that our father rooted out o’ the yard last May, when it had a’ the flush o’ blossoms on it; and then it lay in the court till the beasts had trod them a’ to pieces wi’ their feet. I little thought, when I was wae for the bit silly green bush and its flowers, that I was to gang the same gate mysell.”

“Name” column: normal = designated recording, greyed-out = designated but not official lead tune, italic = possible match found in DB (watch number of repeats!)

Name	Artist	Album	Media	Trk	Type	Time	Pace
Gang the Same Gate	Alastair Hunter & the Lorne Scottish Dance Band	Book 36. Frae a' the Airts, Vol 1	LP+	4	S32 8	8:19	62.4
Gang the Same Gate	Alastair Hunter & the Lorne Scottish Dance Band	Scottish Dance Favourites Volume 3	CD	11	S32 8	8:19	62.4
Gang the Same Gate	Luke Brady's Scottish Dance Band	Take Your Partners For Vol 3	CD	12	S32 8	8:23	62.9
Gang the Same Gate	Green Ginger	Gang on the Same Gate	CD	11	S32 8	8:35	64.4
Gang the Same Gate	Iain MacPhail and his Scottish Dance Band	Book 36. Frae a' the Airts, Vol 1	CD	4	S32 8	8:47	65.9
Gang the Same Gate	Jim Lindsay and his Band	Reel of the Puffins	CD	3	S32 8	8:18	62.2

Gang the Same Gate 3/4L · S32

1–: 1c cross RH | cast off 2 (2c+3c up) ; 1c cross RH and cast up (3c down) to (2,1,3)
9–: 1c set passing Lsh | turn 1cnrs BH ; ½Reel4 with 2cnrs, at end 1c curve R to between end cpl (M above facing W below)
17–: 1c set passing Lsh, turn 4cnr (2cnr persons) BH ; ½Reel4 with 1cnrs, at end curve R to end as (3x,1x,2x)
25–: All S&Link3 ; repeat (2,1,3)

E-cribs

Gang the Same Gate 3/4L · S32

1-8: 1s cross RH & cast down to 3rd place, cross RH & cast up to 2nd place on own sides
9-16: 1s set adv to ptnr & turn 1st crnr 2H to face 2nd crnr, 1s dance 1/2 diag reel of 4 ending M b’tw’n top cpl facing down & L b’tw’n bottom cpl facing up
17-24: 1s set adv to partner & turn 4th corner (pstn) 2H to face own 1st corner (pstn), 1s dance 1/2 diag reel with 1st corners ending in 2nd place opp sides
25-32: 3s+1s+2s Set+Link for 3 twice

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