Two-Hand Dancing

 

There are many two-hand dances of both Irish and Scottish background danced in Ireland as dances crossed borders when people moved from one country to the other, eg:

• Jig - Two Hand Jig

• Reel - Two Hand Reel, Round the House

• Hornpipe - Irish Barn Dance, Stack of Barley, Fermanagh Hornpipe, Cornrigs

• Slide - Peeler and the Goat

• Waltz - Northern Irish Pride of Erin, Killarney Waltz

• Fling - Fitzer’s Fling, Highland, Three Hand Highland

• Mazurka - Shoo the Donkey

• Schottische - Back to Back Hornpipe

• March - Military Two Step.