MILITARY SCHOTTISCHE
"Round Dances" M. Gilbert 1890 (LoC Website)
8-bar sequence

Other names: "Dancing in the Barn", "Kentucky Jubilee"


GILBERT SAYS
FIRST PART

[That's side by side, gentleman's hand on lady's waist, lady's left hand
resting on gentleman's upper arm -- although what the photo shows is her
left hand on his shoulder, her arm passing above his.]

(beats)

1: Step outside foot forward (into 4th, if we care)
2: bring inside foot up (1st, or 3d behind), taking weight
3: LEAP from inside to outside (or slide on outside)
4: HOP on outside

Repeat on other foot


SECOND PART (closed position)

Leap from inside to outside
hop on outside
leap from outside to inside
hop on inside

(Or in other words, just what you expect.)

What makes this the military schottische is the open position; in a simple
schottische per Gilbert, you're in closed position with (I _think_) lady's
back to LOD.

Slide first foot to the side (that is, toward the inside of the ring)
draw second foot up to first (taking weight)
leap from second to first (or slide first again)
hop on first.

repeat on second foot.


The thing I think of as "schottische" (run, run, run, hop) is "Star
Schottische" [by permission of W. F. Mittman]