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    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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    Highland games (Scottish Gaelic: geamannan Gàidhealach) are events held in spring and summer in Scotland and other countries with a large Scottish diaspora...
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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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    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 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    choreographed dances such as contra dance, Scottish highland dance, Scottish country dance, and modern western square dance, are called folk dances, though...
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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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    17 November 2018. "Cowal Highland Gathering Highland dancing". cowalgathering.com. Retrieved 17 November 2018. "Cowal Highland Gathering heavy athletics"...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    Cakewalk (category African-American dance)
    to Highland Dancing". Electric Scotland. Retrieved 2007-04-05. "Scottish Dance Teachers Alliance December 2020". Dance SDTA Alliance: News – Dance matters...
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    of Arms". Earl of Erroll is also the name of a Scottish highland dance, danced today at Highland games around the world. The family seat is Woodbury House...
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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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    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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    Aboyne dress (category Scottish Highland dance)
    movements of the national dances. The Aboyne Highland Games, established in 1867, have stipulated this style of attire for female dancers since 1952 for both...
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  • From the age of three to eighteen, she participated in competitive highland dance. She was inspired to perform comedy after playing the role of Nick Bottom...
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    The reel is a folk dance type as well as the accompanying dance tune type. Of Scottish origin, reels are also an important part of the repertoire of the...
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