Highland dance of the Black Cocks in Blair Atholl, Scotland

This is a traditional Scottish Highland dance performed by young men, symbolic of the Black Grouse Lek, where the male Black Grouse display each spring to attract the women. Blair Atholl is in Highland Perthshire, Scotland http://www.highlandperthshire.com/regions/blair-atholl.aspx

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• Scotland
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• scottish highland dancing

[MysteriousDrella]

gosh, i like this .... :)

But the title just sounds a bit wrong .... *coughs*.

[19Jemess51]

MysteriousDrella - the title is do with the Black Grouse, a Highland Moorland Bird we have here in Scotland. The male Grouse or 'Cocks' dance in a display area or Lek to attract the females each spring. This dance is an old traditional Highland dance that is celebrating the Black Grouse males or 'Cocks' - hope that helps explain the title.

[liamcrouse]

Well, you see, Im sure that he is feeling a little insulted when a "HighlanderChick" is trying to lecture a Highland Gael (who speaks gaelic and obviously knows what he is talking about) on his own culture. Would I ('S e gaingeach a th' annam) lecture a Bulgarian or Turk on his traditional culture, NO!

[seumandonnchaidh]

Check out "Traditional Dancing in Scotland", TM Flett(1964)and "The Indigenous Folk Dance of Scotland", James MacDonald Reid ( National Gaelic Arts Project/Scottish Arts Council1991) for verification of the authenticity of this style of dance and its social setting.

[BUDYSUDJATMIKO]

i love dance of scotland

[RoseLCL]

Would love to have them appear at our charity event next year at Balgonie Castle, raising money for the Tay Rail Bridge Disaster Memorial Trust, anyone know how to contact them, thank you.

Rose

RT Burns Club

[hildeef1]

Respectfully, this looks like a children's dance

[AmericanCWOVI]

ALBA GO BRAGH!!

[paljim24]

Brilliant!!

[nokiannie]

Stop slaging scottish men lol love to see the ausis dance like this

[gator966]

men wearing skirts and holding hands!!

OK!

[Frankcar11]

thats great, the bigpie sound is really deep ,,so nicee! :)