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  • They look silly but it looks like they're having a fine bit of craic. Go Scotland!

  • This was always my favourite highland dance, even though I never got to compete in it. It was a lot of fun!

  • Thats really good :)

    i have never seen that break before, the last break in the 1st step, i really liked that Taraneh :) x

  • your better then me by 1203981293 :P

  • heyy me again  theres a new rule out for the jig it is that ur not allow to make any fist movements infront of ur face all ur hane placements have to me head hight!!!!!

    well done lovely jig im learning ur 2ndd step cant get it lol =P

  • Ok, why is everyone arguing about the Seann Truibahs when the video is of an Irish Jig??

  • lol its pronounced SHANE truibas(canne spell) thats what my teacher says anyway lol but regarding that lol, me and my friend do that 4th step and we call it our irish clicks lol.

    nice jig ;)

  • I looked this up on Wikipedia, because I was curious. My daughters are Irish dancers. My elder daughter just made her school's dance company & we were both curious about the basic differences between Irish & Scottish reels & jigs. BTW baby12345, u r a beautiful dancer:

  • FROM WIKIPEDIA, pt 1/3:

    As far as competitions were concerned, until 1986 there were only four standard dances - The Sword Dance, The Sean Triubhas, The Reel of Tulloch and The Highland Fling. Since then, various other (pre-existing) dances have been added to the competition repertoire. For example, there are two "character dances", "The Sailor's Hornpipe" and "The Irish Jig". The Sailor's Hornpipe was adapted from an English dance, which is now performed more frequently in Scotland, while...

  • WIKI, pt 2/3:

    ...the Irish Jig is a caricature of Irish dancing (the dancer, in a red and green costume, is an interpretation of an Irish washerwoman scolding her wayward husband, gesturing angrily and frowning). If the Irish Jig is danced by a lady, it is about either the distressed wife scolding her husband or a washerwoman chasing taunting boys (or children in general) away who have dirtied her washing - the showing of the woman's fist symbolizes her wanting to beat up the children or the...

  • WIKI, pt 3/3"

    husband. If it is danced by a man, it is the story of Paddy's Leather Breeches, in which a careless washerwoman has shrunk Paddy's fine leather breeches and he is waving his shillelaghat her in anger and showing his fist, intending to hit her. The Hornpipe mimics a sailor in her majesty's navy doing work aboard ship: hauling rope, sliding on the rollicking deck, and getting his paycheck, and has quite a lot of detail involved that portrays the character...

  • Its no pronounced "Shawn", for starters.

    Its pronounced like the name "Shane".

    Gaelic, Scottish Gaelic....Look it up.

    And it DOES refer to the TARTAN TREWS that the scots were FORCED TO WEAR after the english banned kilts.

    The dance represents the shedding OF THE TARTAN TREWS an the return o the KILTS.

    Why would it be aboot english trews, the scots werney forced to wear them.

    Oh an 1 more thing. Lift your reply straight fae a website...soonds like it

  • AWESOME JOB at your jig! But the dress is so plain...

  • Also I'd like to add, that the scottish version o the jig is a parody of an angry Irish wife who's said to be either angry at her bairn fer gettin the washin all mauchit or her husband who's still doon the pub.

    Kay?

    So as they'd ave said 200 + years ago in the north east,

    mar sin leibh

  • kroneage, seriously mate, don't sproot crap. Au the dances come fae different time periods, fir instance, the Seann Triubhas comes fae the rebellion o 1745 when kilts were banned. The dance represents the shedding o the tartan trews the scots were forced to wear, hence the name seann triubhas which literally means auld trousers.

    Im a highland dancer an find yer ignorance pretty annoying. The dance yer describing is the Highland fling, and only the highland fling.

  • Prounounced 'shawn trews' in Gaelic, in English it transslates to 'old trousers.' Origins are obscure: it definitely depicts a person in the act of shedding his trousers. It's said by some the dance came about in 1783 when the British Disarming Act of 1747 was finally repealed and Scots were allowed to wear their tartans and kilts once again.

    The trews in the dance are NOT tartan trews, they are English plain trousers.

  • why do you find their ignorance annoying? Because they were trying to verify something they thought they knew? I'm a highland dancer too, and find your rudeness disgraces us.

  • haha meant persecution! lol

  • What's the difference between Highland Scottish Jig and Irish Jig? I thought all these solo dances can be traced back to 1100AD Scotland and how the Scottish King would choose his Royal Guards by how well they danced!

    So when King James had Scots moved and settled in Northern Ireland, he was trying settle the Irish down. Hence Scots-Irish!

    These particular dances were supposedly then brought by Scots-Irish Immigrants fleeing religious prosecution to the Americas. Right?

  • Too bad your piper sucked. GDE's way to cut.

  • ok that is amazing! i love your dancing! i do the same last step well i try to! your brilliant at it!

  • Lovely! And I'm not even Irish, but I loved this! :)

  • wow that was good... but u flashed a lot in your second step

  • Aaand, why is that a bad thing?

  • Good job best iv'e seen , i do highland too i just starded intermetet 11 and under im Michelle we should talk i need some help with me breakes

  • I love your heel clicks. I juts learned Jig and I am not that great btu you are awsome!!

  • Now thats an Irish jig for your ass.

  • hehehehe

  • That is so funny, I've never seen the black outfit before, totally not regulation here.

    This is very nicely done.

  • Hardly hear corkhill jig these days.

  • where is this? Cause if you wore a black jig outfit here you get dq'd?

  • it isnt blakc..lol..its forest green!! :P well it lokks it..mine is forest green anyways!

    xx

  • great job! I dance highland aswell,its my favorite dance.

  • Very nice.

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