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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But most other Highland Games have dancing as well. The impressiveness of the performance varies wildly depending on the section dancing, with the 4/5/6...
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Highland Scotland, as do the steps used in performing the dances. Traditionally a figure corresponds to an eight-bar phrase of music. Country dancing...
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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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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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choreographed dances such as blue, red, pink and others. Scottish ghillies are used by men and women for Highland dancing and for Scottish country dancing. They...
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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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folk dances by origin. Most popular styles: tap, lyrical, and jazz Cakewalk Patting juba Stepping Tap dancing Jazz dance Moonwalk (dance) Belly dance Raqs...
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Shake Hasapiko (Greece) Hatzichristos Headbanging Highland dancing Hip hop dance Hiragasy Historical dance Hitch hike Hivinau Hoedown Hojagiri Hokey Pokey...
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Kilt (category Scottish Highland dance)
"Costuming Regulations of the Scottish Official Board of Highland Dancing". Margs highland dance wear. Archived from the original on 30 January 2009. Retrieved...
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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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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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Cakewalk (category African-American dance)
Scottish-inspired Highland dance community, especially in the southern United States. In 2021, the Royal Scottish Official Board of Highland Dancing ruled to remove...
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Gareth Mitchelson (category Scottish male dancers)
Official Board of Highland Dancing (SOBHD) Technical Committee for the United Kingdom Alliance (UKA). Mitchelson's involvement in Highland dance has extended...
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Braemar (redirect from Braemar Royal Highland Society)
Royal Highland Society. Lots of events are held, including: hill running; heavy events; light events; and Highland dancing. The Highland dancing is high...
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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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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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pace of a military step Quick time event Quick Time steps in Scottish highland dancing QuickTime All pages with titles containing Quick time This disambiguation...
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annual Highland Festival on Memorial Day weekend. It brings members of Scottish clans and interested onlookers together for a weekend of Highland dancing, bagpipes...
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Aboyne dress (category Scottish Highland dance)
committee applied to both the Highland dances and the national dances. The Royal Scottish Official Board of Highland Dancing a few years later modified the dress...
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event is being considered for merging. › The Fergus Scottish Festival and Highland Games is a three-day cultural festival that has been held in the town of...
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included in Highland Dance competitions in 1841. The dance was recorded by J. F. and T. M. Flett in their book, Traditional Step-Dancing in Scotland,...
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Red Hot Chilli Pipers (category Great Highland bagpipe players)
seven-piece band. The band's live show also features vocal performances and highland dancing. Since their formation the Red Hot Chilli Pipers have combined guitars...
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solo piping competitions, Highland Dancing, whisky school, cultural workshops, Scottish Clan displays, Scottish country dancing, Celtic artisans, kids activities...
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Pas de basque (category Scottish Highland dance)
performed and it is considered a dance, so this is one of the first movements a Highland dancer learns. "Pas-de-basque". Scottish Country Dancing Dictionary....
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, and it also hosts a competition of Highland dancing. Dances include the noted 'highland fling', 'sword dance', 'seann triubhas' and 'reel of Tulloch'...
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Hornpipe (redirect from Hornpipe (dance))
music, but not the dancing between these two speeds. The only difference in the dancing between the fast and slow steps are the dances that the competitor...
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strathspey, all three of which can be enjoyed for dancing, and the competition strathspey for the Great Highland bagpipe, primarily intended as a display of...
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Society of Teachers of Dancing, Ballroom Dancing, Teach Yourself Books, Hodder and Stoughton, 1977, p. 38 Lincoln Kirstein, Dance, Dance Horizons Incorporated...
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