Scottish Dancing On Visit To Perth Perthshire Scotland

Tour Scotland travel video compilation of Scottish dancing on visit to Perth, Perthshire. Including Step Dancing, Highland Dancing, Country Dancing and Street Dancing. Step dance is a form of percussive dance, with origins in Scotland, which has had a strong tradition in Cape Breton in Nova Scotia, Canada, where Scottish emigrant communities settled. Step dancing is often performed at Cèilidhs. The style is exciting, percussive footwork, danced in hard soled shoes to music played at a particularly tempo on bagpipes, whistle, fiddle or puirt-a-beul mouth music. Dancers beat their heels, toes and feet in as many ways as possible and imaginable, keeping time with the rhythms of the music in Strathspey, reel and jig time. There are many steps that can be learned passed on through family generations. In Highland dancing, the dancers dance on the balls of the feet. Traditional Highland dancing involves not only a combination of steps but also some integral upper body, arm, and hand movements. . Scottish country dance is the distinctively Scottish form of country dance, itself a form of social dance involving groups of couples of dancers tracing progressive patterns. A dance consists of a sequence of figures. These dances are set to musical forms, Jigs, Reels and Strathspey Reels, which come from the Gaelic tradition of Highland Scotland, as do the steps used in performing the dances.

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