Kettle River

32-bar strathspey for 3 couples in a 4-couple longwise set

BarsFigures
1-41C set and cast down one place. 2C step up on bars 3-4.
5-81C turn BH about 1 3/4 and turn away from each other to face first corners.
9-161C set to first corners and turn them with BH once around, ending facing second corners. Set to second corners and turn them with BH once around.
17-201C circle three hands round to the left with both corners. On bar 20, 1C pull right shoulders back to face each other across the center of the set.
21-241C turn BH around once in the middle of the set and then set advancing to pass left shoulders and end back-to-back, facing partner’s corners.
25-281C circle three hands round to the left with partner’s corners. On bar 28, 1C pull right shoulders back to face each other across the center of the set.
29-321C turn BH once around and then pull riguth shoulders back and curve into second place on own sides.

Suggested Music: “Kettle River Strathspey,” by Sherry Wohlers Ladig (published with the dance in New Friends)

Devised by Lara Friedman-Shedlov, 1998, to evoke the swirling motion of the Kettle River, near Sandstone, Minnesota. Published by the RSCDS Twin Cities Branch in New Friends.