Competitors in the Highland Fling Scottish Highland dance during the 2022 Kenmore Highland Games. These are held by Loch Tay at Kenmore in picturesque Perthshire, one of the only evening Highland Games in Scotland. The Highland Fling is one of the most famous Scottish dances performed at competitions and championships throughout the world. It is said to have been inspired by the sight of a stag jumping around a hillside. The dancers movements; the arms held aloft like antlers, the feet dancing f

Competitors in the 'Irish Jig' Scottish Highland Dance heats during the 2018 Braemar Gathering Highland Games in Deeside, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. We think the dancer in the centre (10) is champion highland dancer Michelle Gordon from Huntly. The Scottish version is a parody of an Irish washerwoman in an agitated frame of mind, an energetic dance featuring lots of fist shaking and skirt flouncing among female competitors. It is a parody of Irish dancing and the infamous Irish temper. It is one o

Dancers competing in the Seann Triubhas or Shawn Trews, Scottish Highland dance adult heats, held during the 2023 Drumtochty Highland Games. These were in the grounds of Drumtochty Castle at Auchenblae in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, on Saturday 24th June 2023. On the right is champion Highland dancer Hamish McInnes from Australia. Seann Triubhas is a dance of celebration developed in response to the repealing by the English of the Act of Proscription in 1747, which restored to the Scots the right t

Dancers competing in the Seann Triubhas or Shawn Trews, Scottish Highland dance heats, held during the 2023 Aboyne Highland Games. These are held on the first Saturday of August in the village of Aboyne, which will be Saturday 3rd August 2024. Seann Triubhas is a dance of celebration developed in response to the repealing by the English of the Act of Proscription in 1747, which restored to the Scots the right to wear kilts and play the bagpipes once more. The dance then progresses from slow time

Competitors in the Half Reel of Tulloch Highland Dancing competition heats, held during the 2023 Kenmore Highland Games. These friendly Games are held in early July each year at Kenmore by Loch Tay in beautiful Perthshire, one of the few evening Highland Games in Scotland, and return this year on Wednesday 3rd July 2024. The Reel of Tulloch usually follows a Strathspey, and is one of the few dances where competitors dance with each other (although they are still being marked individually). #high

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A Highland Fling Scottish Highland dance by beginners and juniors of the Lindsay School of dance in Laurencekirk and Stonehaven. This was during the 2023 Stonehaven Feein' Market held on Saturday 3rd June 2023. #stonehaven #feeinmarket #aberdeenshire #scotland #highlanddancing #scottishdance #highlanddance #HighlandFling | Scotland Online