Traditional Dancing in Scotland
Author : J. F. Flett
Publisher : London : Routledge and Paul
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 18,6 MB
Release : 1985-11-01
Category : Folk dancing
ISBN : 9780710207319
Dance Legacies of Scotland
Author : Mats Melin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 11,99 MB
Release : 2020-12-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1000334333
Book Description
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 Mats Melin and Jennifer Schoonover explore the historical references describing percussive dancing to illustrate how widespread the practice was, giving some glimpses of what it looked and sounded like.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.
Scottish Ceilidh Dancing
Author : David Ewart
Publisher : Mainstream Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,16 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Ceilidh dancing
ISBN : 9781851588459
Book Description
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.
A Dance Called America
Author : James Hunter
Publisher : Birlinn Ltd
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 16,61 MB
Release : 2022-05-05
Category : History
ISBN : 0857907751
Book Description
A dance was devised in eighteenth-century Skye. An exhilarating dance. A dance, a visitor reports, 'the emigration from Skye has occasioned'. The visitor asks for the dance's name. 'They call it America,' he's told. In his introduction to this new edition of his classic and pioneering account of what happened to the thousands of people who left Skye and the wider north of Scotland to make new lives across the sea, historian James Hunter reflects on what led him to embark on travels and researches that took him across a continent. To Georgia, North Carolina and Montana; to Nova Scotia, Quebec, Ontario and the Mohawk Valley; to prairie farms and great cities; to the Rocky Mountains, British Columbia and Washington State. This is the story of the Highland impact on the New World. The story of how soldiers, explorers, guerrilla fighters, fur traders, lumberjacks, railway builders and settlers from Scotland's glens and islands contributed so much to the USA and Canada. It is the story of how a hard-pressed people found in North America a land of opportunity.
I Dance Therefore I Am
Author : Robin Edward Poulton
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 50,68 MB
Release : 2018-10-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781729316009
Book Description
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!
Scottish Country Dancing
Author : Royal Scottish Country Dance Society
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 33,56 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Folk dancing, Scottish
ISBN : 9780004725000
Book Description
Produced in conjunction with the Royal Scottish Country Dance Society, this manual is suitable for the novice as well as the more experienced dancer. It features: instruction to over 100 of the most popular traditional and modern reels, as well as the most common ceilidh dances; explanations of all the basic steps, dance techniques and dress; and illustrations showing the basic progressions within each dance.
Traditional Step-dancing in Scotland
Author : J. F. Flett
Publisher : State Mutual Book & Periodical Service
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 27,65 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN :
Book Description
Traditional Step-dancing in Scotland focuses on the history of solo step-dancing including the Sword Dance, Highland Fling & Clog dancing. The subject is fully researched and illustrated, and also contains step dancing from Nova Scotia.
Highland Dancing
Author : Scottish Official Board of Highland Dancing
Publisher :
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 29,96 MB
Release : 1955
Category : Folk dancing
ISBN :
Book Description
Hairspray
Author :
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 34,44 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781557835147
Book Description
'Hairspray', the hit musical, is based on John Waters' affectionately subversive homage to his Baltimore youth and the biggest hit musical on Broadway. This is a complete book of lyrics from the Broadway musical.
Dances of Scotland
Author : Jean Milligan
Publisher : Noverre Press
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 39,12 MB
Release : 2021-09-14
Category :
ISBN : 9781914311321
Book Description
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.
