A few years ago the Scottish Country Dance teacher in Jacksonville moved. Even though I had many years experience as a professional ballet dancer and as an open level Highland Dancer, my experience with this form of dance was very minimal. Nevertheless, I volunteered to teach classes while learning the formations, patterns, music, etc. Fortunately my wife had a music degree from Columbia University and gradually took over the bulk of the teaching as I developed my knowledge of this form of dance. We now have a growing class which frequently has enough dancers weekly for two sets and there are three teens who are earning school credit by taking our classes.
The Hebridean Weaving Lilt was the first dance I learned 25 years ago while performing in Scotland. This was long before I ever took Scottish Country Dancing and did not realize it had very unique characteristics and seldom appeared on dance programs. I saved it from the dance wraith yesterday by teaching it in Jacksonville.
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We danced it but I'm not sure we saved it from the dance wraith. It's an interesting dance to look at but less interesting to dance. But it was fun to do something different.
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