Hebridean Weaving Lilt
An Figheádh Dannse
Hebridean Weaving Lilt or An Figheádh Dannse is a Scottish Country Dance. It was devised by Mary Isdal MacNab in 1948 and published in Scottish Country Dance Book of Four Set Dances. It is a proper 4 Couple Longways dance. 88.
The dance was collected on Baleshare Island, North Uist one of the Hebrides islands. The music should be "mouth music" with four counts per bar. See here.
Done with a "running step"; no one ever stops (except when they kneel), they just run in place.
The animation plays at 120 counts per minute. Men are drawn as rectangles, women as ellipses. Each couple is drawn in its own color.
An online description of the dance may be found here.
The dance contains the following figures: hand turn (allemande), circle, lead, hey, mirror hey, back to back, Scottish poussette, (and probably others).
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The dance is copyright © 1948 by Mary Isdal MacNab. My visualization of this dance is copyright © 2025 by George W. Williams V and is released under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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