Competitors in the Highland Fling Scottish Highland dance during the 2022 Kenmore Highland Games. These are held by Loch Tay at Kenmore in picturesque Perthshire, one of the only evening Highland Games in Scotland. The Highland Fling is one of the most famous Scottish dances performed at competitions and championships throughout the world. It is said to have been inspired by the sight of a stag jumping around a hillside. The dancers movements; the arms held aloft like antlers, the feet dancing f

Competitors in the 'Irish Jig' Scottish Highland Dance heats during the 2018 Braemar Gathering Highland Games in Deeside, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. We think the dancer in the centre (10) is champion highland dancer Michelle Gordon from Huntly. The Scottish version is a parody of an Irish washerwoman in an agitated frame of mind, an energetic dance featuring lots of fist shaking and skirt flouncing among female competitors. It is a parody of Irish dancing and the infamous Irish temper. It is one o

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A display of Scottish Highland Dancing set to Celtic music during the 2022 Laurencekirk Gala in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. The dancers are young ladies from the Lindsay School of dancing, based in Laurencekirk and Stonehaven. The music is "Cry Of The Celts" by Ronan Hardiman. Laurencekirk is a small town in the historic county of Kincardineshire, Scotland. The annual Gala starts with a parade along the High Street, led by the local Howe O' the Mearns Pipe Band. Held in the memorial park, the day i

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A Highland Fling Scottish Highland dance by beginners and juniors of the Lindsay School of dance in Laurencekirk and Stonehaven. This was during the 2023 Stonehaven Feein' Market held on Saturday 3rd June 2023. #stonehaven #feeinmarket #aberdeenshire #scotland #highlanddancing #scottishdance #highlanddance #HighlandFling | Scotland Online

Competitors in the Highland Fling, Scottish Highland dancing adult heats during the 2023 Drumtochty Highland Games. These were held in the grounds of Drumtochty Castle at Auchenblae in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, on Saturday 24th June 2023. Competitors included Libby May (No. 242) and the male taking part on the right here is Hamish McInnes, an adult Highland Dancing Champion from Brisbane in Queensland, Australia. #Drumtochty #highlandgames #aberdeenshire #highlanddance #highlanddancing #HighlandF