Highland dance or Highland dancing (Scottish Gaelic: dannsa Gàidhealach) is a style of competitive dancing developed in the Scottish Highlands in the 19th...
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Gemunu Watch Highland laddie is also the name of a dance in Scottish Highland dancing, of the "national dance" subtype. This version of the dance was first...
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The Sword dance is one of the best known of all Highland dances, an ancient dance of war. Performance of sword dances in the folklore of Scotland is recorded...
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fusion of (English) country dance formations with Highland music and footwork. It has become the national ballroom dance form of Scotland, partly because...
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The Highland Fling is a solo Highland dance that gained popularity in the early 19th century. The word 'Fling' means literally a movement in dancing. In...
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Modern dance Ballet Baroque dance Medieval dance Regency dance Renaissance dance Ultapulta dance Highland dance American Rhythm Bolero willy East Coast Swing...
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primarily intended to be a showcase of traditional Scottish heavy events, Highland Dance, pipe and drum competitions. The Glengarry Games were first staged in...
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Highland games (Scottish Gaelic: geamannan Gàidhealach) is a competitive strength sport with events held in spring and summer in Scotland and several other...
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played anywhere from 108 beats per minute for Highland dance up to 160 beats per minute for step dance. Traditionally, a strathspey will be followed by...
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and women in Scottish country dance, and by men and women in Scottish highland dance. Ghillies are also sometimes known by a variety of other names that...
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or more people dancing in unison. The dance is quite different in style from the better known Highland dances and in many ways imitates the use of a...
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Pas de basque (category Scottish Highland dance)
In Highland dance, a pas de basque is described as follows: prepare with an extension of the working foot to second aerial position low. Spring to that...
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Commercial Dance, consisting of as hip hop, jazz, locking, popping, breakdancing, contemporary etc. Single-style competitions, such as; highland dance, dance team...
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modern Highland games established in the United States. Competitions and displays take place in Scottish styles of piping, drumming, costume, dance, and...
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Trews (category Highland dress)
and lower abdomen, a traditional form of tartan trousers from Scottish Highland dress. Trews could be trimmed with leather, usually buckskin, especially...
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Schottische Schuhplattler Scottish country dance Scottish highland dance Sean-Nós Dance (Ireland - Irish Dance in Sean Nós "Old Style") Seann triubhas Seguidilla...
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Gareth Mitchelson (category Scottish male dancers)
Scottish dancer. He won the World Highland dancer Championship four times and is now a qualified teacher, adjudicator and examiner in Highland and Scottish...
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rapper dancing. Some choreographed dances such as contra dance, Scottish highland dance, Scottish country dance, and modern western square dance, are called...
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Dancer's Delight is a Scottish soft-shoe step dance devised in 1964 to commemorate the first anniversary of the United States Highland Dancers' Association...
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17 November 2018. "Cowal Highland Gathering Highland dancing". cowalgathering.com. Retrieved 17 November 2018. "Cowal Highland Gathering heavy athletics"...
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Scottish people list Culture Art Church of Scotland Country dance Cuisine Highland dance Mythology Religion Architecture Vernacular Medieval Early Modern...
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Kilt (category Scottish Highland dance)
origin. Organisations that sanction and grade the competitions in Highland dancing and piping all have rules governing acceptable attire for the competitors...
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Scottish clan (redirect from Highland clans)
others. Historically, tartan designs were associated with Lowland and Highland districts whose weavers tended to produce cloth patterns favoured in those...
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A barn dance is any kind of dance involving traditional or folk music with traditional dancing, occasionally held in a barn, but, these days, much more...
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decline. Dance styles associated with the music are Cape Breton step dancing, Cape Breton square dancing (Iona style and Inverness style), and highland dancing...
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Jig (redirect from Slide (dance))
Gaelic: port-cruinn) is a form of lively folk dance in compound metre, as well as the accompanying dance tune. It first gained popularity in 16th-century...
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Tartan (redirect from Highland clan tartan)
some date back to the era of the Vestiarium Scoticum. Dance tartans, intended for Highland dance outfits, for either sex, are inspired (like most dress...
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Music and performing arts Folk music Scottish highland dance Scottish country dance Scottish sword dances Mod Keening Waulking song Opera Puirt à beul...
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Hornpipe (redirect from Hornpipe (dance))
music of this period. Egg dance Reel (dance) Jig Polka Mazurka Slide (tune type) Highland fling Schottische Strathspey (dance) The Sailor's Hornpipe Waltz...
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Mary Ann Kennedy demonstrate lilting on a BBC 2005 television series, The Highland Sessions, filmed in Killiecrankie, Perthshire Dolores O'Riordan, singer...
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