Competitors in the Scottish Lilt, Highland dancing competition, held during the 2024 Tomintoul Highland Games. These friendly Games were held on Saturday 20th July 2024 at Tomintoul in the Cairngorms National Park, Moray, Scotland. It is believed that the Scottish Lilt is a courting dance, performed by Scottish gentlewomen to show how graceful they could be. It is a combination of the Highland and Ballet forms of dance and for which the dancers wear the Aboyne outfit, the prescribed attire for f

Young competitors taking part in the Scottish Lilt, Highland dance heats, held during the 2023 Dufftown Highland Games in Moray, Scotland. According to D. G. MacLennan in Highland and Traditional Scottish Dances (1950), the Scottish Lilt originated in Perthshire after 1746 and for competitive purposes is usually danced to the tune 'Battle of the Somme', by P/M Willie Lawrie. #dufftown #dufftownhighlandgames #highlanddance #scottishlilt #highlandfling | Scottish Highlands & Inverness

The Highland Fling, Scottish Highland dance adult competition during the 2024 Ballater Highland Games. These were held at Ballater in Deeside, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, on Thursday 8th August 2024 and the dancers included Scottish Highland dancing champions Michelle Gordon in the centre and Laura Smith in red on the right. 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

Competitors in the 'Irish Jig' Scottish Highland Dancing heats during Ballater Highland Games in 2023. This was at Ballater in Deeside, Aberdeenshire, Scotland on Thursday 10th August 2023. The Scottish 'Irish Jig' version is a parody of an Irish washerwoman in an agitated frame of mind. This is 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 of the two Scottish National dance

A Scottish Highland dancing display by young dancers from the Fraser School of dance in Inverness. This is from our archives, when the dancers were taking part in a charity event at Inverness Northern Meeting Park back in April 2017. The piper supporting them was Kevin Reid. #inverness #scottishhighlands #highlanddancing #scottishdance #highlanddancers | Scottish Highlands & Inverness

Bagpipes and some Scottish Highland Dancing Tunes The Tiree Bridal Song - The High Drive - Clumsy Lover When commentator talks about pipers learning to dance this is army pipers where on training they learn to dance as well as play bagpipes or drums. | Duty Piper