Scottish Country Dancing
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Author | : David Ewart |
Publisher | : Mainstream Publishing |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Ceilidh dancing |
ISBN | : 9781851588459 |
Say goodbye to squashed feet, sore toes and dizzy heads with Scottish Ceilidh Dancing. Guiding you through intricate dance steps and various hand holds in simple, straightforward language, this book introduces you to the exuberant world of the Dashing White Sergeant, the Gay Gordons, the Gypsy Tap and the Lucky Seven, to name but a few. All your old favourites are here and, with over fifty dances, there's something for everyone, from the simple routines of the Dinkie One-Step, to the more adventurous Southern Rose Waltz and the Posties Jig.
Author | : Mats Melin |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 2020-12-30 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1000334333 |
Dance Legacies of Scotland compiles a collage of references portraying percussive Scottish dancing and explains what influenced a wide disappearance of hard-shoe steps from contemporary Scottish practices. Mats Melin and Jennifer Schoonover explore the historical references describing percussive dancing to illustrate how widespread the practice was, giving some glimpses of what it looked and sounded like. The authors also explain what influenced a wide disappearance of hard-shoe steps from Scottish dancing practices. Their research draws together fieldwork, references from historical sources in English, Scots, and Scottish Gaelic, and insights drawn from the authors’ practical knowledge of dances. They portray the complex network of dance dialects that existed in parallel across Scotland, and share how remnants of this vibrant tradition have endured in Scotland and the Scottish diaspora to the present day. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of Dance and Music and its relationship to the history and culture of Scotland.
Author | : Tania Munz |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 287 |
Release | : 2016-05-10 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 022602086X |
Karl von Frisch, in January 1946, deciphered the dancing language of honeybees. Over the previous summer, he had discovered that the bees communicate the distance and direction of food sources by means of the dances they run upon returning from foraging flights. The news of the discovery, which led later to a Nobel Prize, quickly spread across Europe and beyond. The Dancing Bees is a dual biography on the one hand of von Frisch as one of the most innovative and successful scientists of the twentieth century and, on the other, of his honeybees as experimental and especially communicating animals that play a rich role in human culture."
Author | : Celeste Ray |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 279 |
Release | : 2015-12-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1469625806 |
Each year, tens of thousands of people flock to Grandfather Mountain, North Carolina, and to more than two hundred other locations across the country to attend Scottish Highland Games and Gatherings. There, kilt-wearing participants compete in athletics, Highland dancing, and bagpiping, while others join clan societies in celebration of a Scottish heritage. As Celeste Ray notes, however, the Scottish affiliation that Americans claim today is a Highland Gaelic identity that did not come to characterize that nation until long after the ancestors of many Scottish Americans had left Scotland. Ray explores how Highland Scottish themes and lore merge with southern regional myths and identities to produce a unique style of commemoration and a complex sense of identity for Scottish Americans in the South. Blending the objectivity of the anthropologist with respect for the people she studies, she asks how and why we use memories of our ancestral pasts to provide a sense of identity and community in the present. In so doing, she offers an original and insightful examination of what it means to be Scottish in America.
Author | : Scottish Official Board of Highland Dancing |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 104 |
Release | : 1955 |
Genre | : Folk dancing |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Robin Edward Poulton |
Publisher | : Independently Published |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2018-10-28 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781729316009 |
This is a book of dancing around the world written for all children and their grandparents, filled with wit and humor, interspersing dances with personal stories, jokes and home-spun lessons from life - enlivened with word pictures of St Andrews, of beautiful Scotland, of kilts and haggis. Robin Poulton celebrates the worldwide friendship of dancers, offering a philosophy of life that promotes "the greatest happiness to the greatest number" through peace and love and dancing. Read and enjoy!
Author | : The Royal Scottish Country Dance Society |
Publisher | : HarperCollins UK |
Total Pages | : 147 |
Release | : 2017-09-07 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0008261539 |
A perfect introduction to the world of Scottish dance written by the Royal Scottish Country Dance Society, including a short history of Scottish dancing. The book takes you through simple ceilidh moves to more complex formations and set dances, illustrated through diagrams and photos.
Author | : Hugh Stewart |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 38 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Country dancing |
ISBN | : 9780951919316 |
Author | : Jean Milligan |
Publisher | : Noverre Press |
Total Pages | : 42 |
Release | : 2021-09-14 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781914311321 |
The enthusiasm with which Scottish gatherings all over the world welcome the strains of a Reel tune or a stately Strathspey is no less marked today than it was in the eighteenth century, when an English visitor to an Edinburgh ballroom noted, 'The moment one of these tunes is played, up they start, and you would imagine they had been bit by a tarantula.' Some of the dwindling antique treasure of music and dance is now being recovered, including such dances as the weird 'Carlin of the Mill Dust' and the fascinating 'Hebridean Weaving Lilt' from the Isles. More commonly known are the highland step-dances and the country dances; step-notation and music for four of these are provided in this book. Also included is a bibliography for further study, and four colour-plates showing authentic costumes. Miss Milligan, one of the founders of the Scottish Country Dance Society, played a leading part in the preservation and teaching of Scottish dances. Mr. MacLennan, renowned as an expert of Highland dancing, made a lifelong study of Scottish dances, bringing to light many not hitherto generally known.
Author | : Royal Scottish Country Dance Society |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 1924 |
Genre | : Folk dance music |
ISBN | : |