There’s a new opportunity in Highland for youth wanting to shine in the spotlight. The re-launched Highland Dance Academy has just completed its first year of operation with a successful menu of ...

Scottish Highland dancing is one of the oldest forms of folk dance, dating back to the 11th or 12th century. The Highland dances of Scotland were highly athletic male celebratory dances of triumph, or ...

Ten years ago, Beret Dernbach started highland dance lessons at the age of 5 with the starry-eyed dream of one day being the best in the world at the Scottish competition sport. On Aug. 25, her dream ...

Their dancing shoes, called ghillies, are worn by Highland dancers. Ghillies are black, flat, soft-soled shoes, said 16-year-old Christy Charles, and they're perfect for the intricate steps Highland ...

The Clan Heather Dancers formed in 1974 under direction of Heather Richendrfer in Bellingham, Washington. The school is the longest-established dance school in Whatcom County; celebrating 49 years in ...

Erin Blair recently won the juvenile World Highland Dancing Championship in Scotland for the second year in a row. Blair, who studies ballet at the Maple Conservatory of Dance, says her ballet ...

Dancers came out to the Hogan Center at Alma College for the 2023 Alma Indoor Highland Dance Competition & Workshop. Events for this competition occurred between 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. on Saturday, Nov.

They won’t be dancing them to a standstill, but it’s going to be very competitive and might come down to swords even still. That’s the nature of Highland Dancing and the 44th Smoky Mountain Scottish ...

MADISON, Wis.- After bringing Scottish Highland Dancing to Madison back in 2018, the Breckenridge School of Highland Dance is headed back to the birthplace of the sport, for the Madison students to ...