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Write a contest about traditions dances you know

Answer 1

Scotland is alive with traditional dancing. Thousands of people of all ages participate and watch traditional dance in Scotland and throughout the world.

Written material on Scottish dancing dates back to the 1700s. Over time, particular styles have evolved and many geographical areas of Scotland have their own unique dance variations. It is commonly accepted that the Reel is the only truly indigenous dance to Scotland. This was a dance for three or more people where steps were danced on the spot alternating with everyone doing usually the same travelling step around in a circle or in a figure of eight. Partly due to their location, The Western Isles, Orkney and Shetland all danced their own reels late into the 1800s before the introduction of more modern dances. Shetland has particularly invested in keeping their traditional Reels alive and many are danced today. Start tapping your toe to the sound of the pipes or fiddle and you are on the way to Scottish dancing.

For ease of description, Scottish traditional dance can broadly be described as four different styles, with certain techniques, moves, footwork, patterns common to all. Dances of the same name, for example Reel of Tulloch, can be performed in a different style, changing the feel and the look of the dance. Whether it’s ceilidh dancing, highland dancing, scottish-country dancing or step-dance Scottish music on the pipes, fiddle, accordion and Gaelic song joins and celebrates it all.

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Answer 2

his is probably both the oldest and youngest form of traditional dance in Scotland. Solo step-dancing developed out of the stepping on the spot from the old Reels. Until around 1992 step-dancing was rarely seen or danced in Scotland and few people knew about it. It’s rediscovery partly occurred through the visits and teaching in Scotland of Cape Breton step dancers, in particular Harvey Beaton and Mary Janet Macdonald. This dancing was kept very much alive in Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada by Scottish immigrants who settled there in the late 1700’s. The style is exciting, percussive footwork, danced in hard-soled shoes to music played at a particularly tempo on pipes, whistle, fiddle or puirt-a-beul (mouth music). That is, beating ones 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.  The style has never been prescribed, except dancing steps neat and close to the floor. Many dancers have their own individual style and steps they like to do to particular tunes. Scottish traditional step-dancing seen in Scotland today has been learned from Cape Breton step dancers, this in turn originated in Scotland. Some of the beats of the feet from step-dancing can be seen in many of Scotlands other traditional dances, for example in Highland (Flowers of Edinburgh), Hebridean (Till A-Rithist/Aberdonian Lassie), Ceilidh (Jacky Tar).