Scottish Step Dancing - Jig, Strathspey and Reel

Gergel School. St Andrew’s Night in Kiev 2012 Step dancing is indeed the tune is about. The fiddle is the preferred instrument for step-dancing as it allows the dancers and the audience to appreciate the percussive sound of feet on the floor. The subject of traditional dance is one which, to date, has been under-researched in Scotland and, while the paper can only touch upon it, perhaps it can appeal to serious researchers to take it up. For most of this century, not only the nation but the world has been influenced by modern ideas of dance as presented by the Royal Scottish Country Dance Society. Because the .’s more famous co-founder, Miss Jean Milligan, was principal dance teacher at Jordanhill College of Education in Glasgow, she was in a position of great influence in Scottish Education. All teachers who trained at Jordanhill and at Scotland’s other Teacher Training Colleges were subsequently taught dance according to a new and strictly imposed Schools’ Curriculum, where dance still holds a time-honoured place. It is relatively easy to see, therefore, how an entire nation was converted to “correct“ dancing practices while the old styles were set aside and labelled “wrong“. All the more reason, then, to study the dance styles of areas which were outwith the influence of the RSCDS. (Margaret Bennett, School of Scottish Studies. Edinburgh University, U.K.) Анжела Гергель #scottishdancing #angelagergel #анжелагергель