From: "Ian Brockbank" <ian:scottishdance.net>
To: <strathspey:strathspey.org>
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 14:57:35 +0100
Subject: DANCE: The Inside Oot Fish Eater

A new dance which I tried out at  Dunedin  on  Wednesday  with  Lindsay  (the
original Inside Oot Fish Eater) playing, and it seemed to go down well.

                        The Inside Oot Fish Eater

Dance for 5 couples in a 5 couple longwise set                  5x32 bar Reel

1-8
    1st and 3rd couples lead down the middle and up to face first corners. 2s
    and 4s step up on bars 3 and 4.
9-12
    1st  and  3rd  couples  couple  dance  corners  pass  and turn with first
    corners.  At the end, dancing  couples  approach  then  pull  back  right
    shoulders to face fourth corners (partner's second corners).
13-16
    1st  and  3rd couple dance corners pass and turn with fourth corners.  At
    the end, dancing couples approach then pull back right shoulders to  face
    out their own side.
17-24
    2nd,  4th  and 5th couples dance the first eight bars of petronella while
    dancing couples dance out their own side and to the right, across the set
    between  the  setting  couples,  out  partner's  side  and  to the right,
    finishing 1st couple in 2nd place and 3rd couple in  4th  place,  all  on
    opposite  sides  of  the dance, and set.  (I.e.  all 5 couples are now on
    opposite sides of the dance, and all set on bars 23-24).
25-26
    2nd couple turn half way giving right hand while 1st couple  dance  right
    hands  across  half  way with 4th couple and 3rd couple dance right hands
    across half way with 5th couple.
27-28
    Giving hands on the sidelines, all set.
29-32
    All turn (or spin) partners with right hands.

Finish in the order 2, 4, 1, 5, 3, ready to start again.

Peter Wood wrote the tune "The Inside Oot Fish Eater" for Lindsay Weir.  It's
a  cracking tune which has really caught on with Scottish dance musicians.  I
thought it was about time it had a dance to go with it.   Lindsay  plays  for
Dunedin  Dancers'  Wednesday  social  night  once a month, and this was first
danced at Dunedin on the 13th of April, 2005 with Lindsay playing.

The basic concept of the dance was proposed by Caroline, and  I  fleshed  out
the details, so this is a combined effort.

Tune:     The Inside Oot Fish Eater    (Peter Wood)

(cc) Ian Brockbank, March 2005

(Alan, George, I gather you already have a dance of this name by me  in  your
databases.   Not  sure  quite how that happened, but I certainly can't find a
previous version now, and  I'd  like  this  to  be  considered  the  accurate
version.  Thanks.  Also, I've checked the spelling of the tune name - William
Crawford released a CD with the spelling I've used, so  I  expect  he  knows.
Lindsay reckoned the tune was written around 1992.)

Cheers,

Ian Brockbank
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