Scottish Folk Dance: If you can follow code, you can dance!
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Claim: Scottish country dances are built like code from reusable figures — setting, right‑hand crosses, progressions that move first couple to second place — with deliberate error‑recovery bars so mistakes can be fudged. Demonstrations include White Cockade, Tomina, Sandy Scotch Broth, Piper and the Penguin and the Lom Mountain reel, showing quick versus slow tempi that change footwork. Dances get iterated, tested on live groups, reviewed by RSCDS and sometimes published in booklets; human testing usually works but occasionally exposes design bugs.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Welcome
- 3:38Dance structure
- 8:33Dance tempos and footwork
- 16:23Group collaboration
- 25:08Dance notation like code
- 33:01Audience participation
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