Cumberland Square Eight

Music - 64 bar reels or jigs

Music - audio/2 x 32 reels + 2 x 32 jigs.mp3

Formation - 4 couple square set
A1    Head couples galop across the set boys passing back to back         (8 steps) Heads galop back to place, girls passing back to back (8 steps)	heads galop		heads galop back
A2     Side couples galop across the set,           boys passing back to back         (8 steps)           Side couiples galopm back to place,           girls passing back to back (8 steps)		sides galop	sides galop back
B1    Head couples Right Hand star          (all 4 join right hands and walk round          to left for 8 steps)          Head couples Left Hand star           (all 4 join left hands and walk round           for 8 steps back to place)		heads RH star	heads LH star
B2     Side couples Right Hand  star           (all 4 join right hands and walk round           to left for 8 steps)           Side couples Left Hand star           (all 4 join right hands and walk round           for 8 steps back to place)		sides RH star	sides LH star
A3     Head couples basket           (All 4 meet in middle and make a tight circle,           boys linking arms round girls' waists and girls           linking arms round boys' shoulders. Spin the           circle to the left - do not come back to left.           Finish in original head couples place)		heads basket
A4     Side couple basket           (same as head couples, finishing in original side couples place)		side cpls basket
B3     All join hands and cikrcle to the left (16 steps)		all circle left
B4     All 4 couples promenade back to place          (cross hand hold in front with partner and with          boy on the inside, promenade anticlockwise back to place)		all promenade
DANCE USUALLY REPEATS AT LEAST ONCE NOTE - An alternative way to making the basket is by the girls joining 2 hands across the set. Then the boys join 2 hands across the set over the girls. The boys lift their joined hands overe the girls heads and then the girls lift their joined hands over the boys.                If making the basket proves too difficult, then just make a 4 haned circle and circl to the left (8 steps) and back to the right