Dance The Kicking Horse 3454
Reel · 32 bars · 2 couples · Round the room (Progression: 21) · Usual number of repetitions: ?
- Devised by
- John Drewry (1983)
- Intensity
- 66/88/88/88 = 94% (whole dance)
- Formations
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- Rights and Lefts - half (R&L;HALF;)
- Balance in Line (BALNCE)
- Promenade single couple(s) (PROM;1C;)
- Hands across - 4 - half (HX;4P;HALF;)
- Steps
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- Pas-de-Basque, Skip-Change
- Published in
- Recommended Music
- Extra Info
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Drewry writes that this dance was "for the dancers of Alberta, Canada who invited …
Drewry writes that this dance was "for the dancers of Alberta, Canada who invited me to teach at Banff Springs. Unfortunately, when I chose the name, I did not realise that The Kicking Horse Pass was over the provincial boundary in British Columbia!"
Table rows with a green background denote recordings starting with one of the recommended tunes and the usual number of repetitions for the dance (?). 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
| Name | Artist | Album | Media | Trk | Type | Time | Pace | Clip | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Kicking Horse | Iain MacPhail and his Scottish Dance Band | The Dancing World of Iain MacPhail | CD+ | 1 | R32 8 | 4:15 | 31.9 | ||
| The Dashing White Sergeant | Alan Gardiner and his Scottish Dance Band | A True Reflection | CD | 6 | R32 8 | 4:25 | 33.1 | ||
| MacPhail Reels | Iain MacPhail and his Scottish Dance Band | Best in Scottish Dance Music, The, Volume 1 | MC | 5 | R32 4 | 0:00 | 0.0 | ||
| Reels 8x32 Bars | Robert Whitehead & the Danelaw Band | Simmerdim Danelaw Dance Band Favourites Vol. 1 | CD | 18 | R32 8 | 4:57 | 37.1 | ||
| Set of Reels | The Craigellachie Band | After the Chord | CD+ | 4 | R32 4 | 2:16 | 34.0 |
The Kicking Horse 2RR · R32
{{explanation}}
Round the Room 2 facing 2
1-8
: Men change places RH, Ladies change places LH & all dance 1/2 R&L ending
with Men turning partners LH into centre to form a line
9-16
: All Bal-in-Line, 1/2 turn partner LH, Bal-in-Line, 1/2 turn partner LH
into prom hold
17-24
: All dance clockwise promenade passing both opposite couple & next couple
RSh back to original places facing partner
25-32
: All 1/2 turn partner RH & dance 1/2 RH across with opposite couple, all
turn partners RH to face next couple
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Added on: 2023-03-21 (Zsofia Jozsef)
Quality: Good
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Added on: 2019-09-18 (Murrough Landon)
Quality: Reasonable
