SS South Carolina
by Sue McKinnell 3X32 Strathspey for 3C set dance
Bars
1-8	2C turn the person on their right RH once round then turn the person on their left LH to end facing 1st corners.
9-16	2C dance corners pass and turn to end in 2nd place on own sides facing down. Corners turn BH in the middle.
17-24	Pickup chain: 2C and 3C change RH to start. End 2, 3, 1 on opposite sides.
25-32	All set, dance half turn and cast away, and set.
Repeat from new positions.
Suggested music is The Silver Thistle Ball from Heather Hills by Mara Shea and Dace Wiesler.
Years ago when I was in high school a good friend told me about a class his uncle was taking in how to use visualization to help remember a list. Then he told me about the one his uncle used to remember the original 13 colonies in the order in which they joined the union. The eighth image is described “in her right hand is a steamship the SS South Carolina” (South Carolina). It’s now 60+ years later and I still remember the whole sequence, so I decided to use the phrases as titles for some dances; this is the eighth of those dances.
I wrote this dance as a strathspey, but I believe it would dance equally as well as a reel if anyone wants to try it that way.se the phrases as titles for some dances; this is the eighth of those dances.
	08/25