Scottish Highland Dancing for Beginners : Arm & Head Positions in Scottish Highland Dancing

Scottish Highland Dancing for Beginners : Fling Performance in Scottish Highland Dancing

Scottish Highland Dancing for Beginners : Pa De Bas Dance in Scottish

This is one of the steps you learn as a beginner to highland dancing and for beginner exams and little ones or beginners dance these at the small ceilidhs.

Highland Dancing: Shedding in the Highland Fling

Scottish Highland Dancing for Beginners : Shedding in Scottish Highland Dancing

Now this looks complicated...

The whole dance floor is involved in this dance and lots of partner swopping. We have not seen this dance in our country,...think this in Canada. Looks like a cool dance to learn :)

Music: Moneymusk tune

Here is the tune without the dancing: 

Scottish Ceilidh Dancing: Moneymusk

Moneymusk is a place in Aberdeenshire in Scotland, where my ancestors come from.

This is quite a complicated dance but as I just started this blog and this is what we are looking at, at the moment. 

Ceilidh's are community dances with traditional music bands.  Ceilidh dancing needs a lot of energy and you have so much fun.  The music is fast and furious and gets faster and faster.  The dancing is group dancing and very lively when you get going and know the dances.  When you first learn they teach you very slowly as the steps are confusing but when you know them you got really fast and crazy.

We have an excellent band here where we live (not the youtube which is from a different country!) and we have excellent ceilidhs here, which are lots of fun.  The types of ceilidh dances we know already are Strip the Willow, Gay Gordons, St Bernards Waltz, Canadian Strip the Willow, Canadian Barn Dance and a few more ......

This youtube is from a different country, with old folks dancing but the idea is just to see the dance steps and how it goes.

Here it is;