Tour Scotland Video Scottish Country Dancing International Folk Dance Festival Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of Scottish Country Dancing by Dunedin Dancers from Edinburgh at the International Folk Dance Festival on visit to King Edward Street in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. A Scottish Country dance is a form of social dance involving groups of couples of dancers tracing progressive patterns according to a predetermined choreography. Country dancing is sometimes mistaken for a type of folk dancing, but it is actually the ballroom dance form of Scotland, as its original base of dancers was from the more educated and wealthy classes of the Renaissance. When it first became popular around the 18th century it was as a shorter, quicker form of dance that was a light relief from the more courtly dances normally danced. Derived from early British forms of Country dancing, it is related to English country dancing, contra dancing, cèilidh dancing, Old time dancing and Irish set dancing due to the combination of some of these dance forms in early Country dance forms and later cross over introduced by their overlapping influences via dancers and dance masters.

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