Lucy Macdonald School of Highland Dancing

04/04/2020

Our Highland Games may be cancelled so join the Hustle Games for free! Aiming to keep Highland Dancers of all ages dancing and having fun

31/08/2019

I sent out emails just over a week ago but just to update the page, unfortunately classes won’t be restarting due to my family & work commitments.
Thank you for all your support.
If anyone is looking for Highland classes check out Lauren Piper School of Highland Dance 💙

09/05/2019

A quick update.

Dancing will be restarting after the summer holidays.

Apologies for the lack of communication...spending all my spare time ogling my son 💙

I’ll get dates confirmed and emails sent out.

Hope everyone is well & I look forward to seeing the kids back after my maternity break.

16/04/2019

I’d say that’s a perfect first position right there...have we created a highland dancer 😀

23/03/2019

We have been busy doing a stock take so not been posting for a while - still lots to do, but we have a sale of end of stock items! Check it out!

https://highlanddanceshop.com/sale/

25/02/2019

Come along this Thursday, with your little Tot for a Free Taster Session with Razz Tots and thier theme, Under The Sea 🧜🏾‍♀️🐬🦈🐠

⭐️Grown up Assited class, age 2-3.
⭐️Dancing 🕺🏼 Singing 🎤 Drama 🎭 Crafts 🎨
⭐️Thurday Mornings 10am-11am, Studio at the yard, Bishopbriggs, G641QT.
Contact Amanda by private mail, email [email protected] or call/text 07554451308. 📲

23/01/2019

Originally only men were allowed to do these dances. In the late 19th century a young girl (10 years old) named Jenny Douglas decided to enter a Highland dance competition. As this was not expressly forbidden, she was allowed to enter. It was a shock for everyone when the first female Highland Dancer took to the platforms to do battle with the men. She made so much of an impact on the scene, dressed exactly as the men, that shortly afterwards other ladies took up the idea and the seed was sown.

They adopted the look of a male soldier, with military dress and with their hair pulled up and off the neck in a high bun or a French braid. This also gave the dancer a clear view, allowing them to maintain the correct body alignment throughout the dance. Later during the World Wars, women began dancing more often desiring to preserve their rich culture and history, while the men were defending their homeland. Since then the number of females participating in the sport has increased until today in excess of 95% of all dancers are female.

In 1952, the Aboyne Games sponsored a more feminine costume for girls based on seventeenth and eighteenth century Highland dress for women as seen in portraits of Flora MacDonald. Ladies’ dances such as Flora MacDonald’s Fancy, the Scottish Lilt, and the Village Maid, were introduced to the repertoire as ‘national dances’, to offer hand movements where ladies would hold their skirts and, above all, more feminine dances using a softer, more balletic style rather than the more military style used by the earlier male dancers.

Photo of Bonnie Aguilar Aka Bonnie Luzius

03/01/2019

02/01/2019

Happy 2019 everyone, hope you’ve all had a fab time over the festive.

I’ll be in touch as soon as possible, in the near future with class information.

Here’s hoping it’s not too far away!

19/12/2018

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