Parker School of Dance
23 Church Street B2N 3Z5 Truro, NS, Canada

Thank you to all who joined us this week on Zoom! We had a fun week together! It was so nice to see everyone’s smiles The love for dance was definitely shining!Thank you to all who joined us this week on Zoom! We had a fun week together! It was so nice to see everyone’s smiles The love for dance was definitely shining!

Registration is now open! There is a class for all levels An excellent opportunity and great way to support SDCCS 2023!

ScotDance Nova Scotia is hosting an online spring workshop on Saturday, April 24th, 2021 as a fundraiser for SDCCS 2023 taking place in Halifax from July 2nd-6t...h. Registration is open for Nova Scotian dancers only and opens this Friday, April 9th at 6:00pm. Please see more information below or at https://scotdancenovascotia.weebly.com//scotdance_nova_sco See more

Happy Tartan Day!

A big Hoppy Easter to our dancers and their families! Enjoy your day, Love Allyson & Amelia Art by Linda Woods

As a fundraiser for our dance school, we are selling cookie dough made by Quickie Dough (Dartmouth). Each tub makes around 40 cookies. There is also brownie dough and dog biscuit dough! Orders will be ready in time for the holidays. I can deliver to Pictou County, Truro and Halifax! If you’d like to order some, the kinds are listed in the chart pictured Thank you in advance!!

Free for all dancers, donations appreciated! Online session with Marielle Lesperance and Laura Donlan.

Zoom classes offered by ‘Fling Together’ are free! There are a few but this one is related to ballet and how it can help the quality of your highland dancing.

The deadline to order 2021 calendars is this Friday, November 6th. Your SDNS teacher can provide you with the link to order. Thank you for your support so far!

What a truly amazing DQ cake made for a special dancer turning eight today!

Leap week starts tomorrow! Starting tomorrow and ending on Friday, one exercise will posted each day, focused on strengthening to help improve leaps

Welcome to the October Practice Challenge! This month we are teaming up with Erin Blair. Watch our socials for weekly videos from Erin and track your practice...s for a chance to win the October Practice Challenge prize drawing. Prize announcement coming soon Download the new practice tracker on https://rmhd.org/index.php/fling-together/ See more

We will be taking some pictures this week for a collage for the calendar

Highland Dance Rocks

Excited for the week ahead Classes begin this week in Truro and I can’t wait to meet everyone! There is still time to register if you haven’t already - 4 spots left for Primary (age 4-5) and 2 spots left in each of the New Beginner classes. Message me if interested. See you soon!!

Amelia and I are direct descendants of passengers from the Ship Hector that arrived here September 15, 1773. Here is a picture from a few anniversaries ago of wee Amelia!! Although we have ties with the MacLeod clan, highland dancers can wear any tartan of any colour. At this age she wore Dress Turquoise Lennox.

The Ship Hector arrived 247 years ago today in Pictou, NS. To celebrate, the NaGashGich Pipes & Drums played some tunes on the waterfront and Payton danced an impromptu Scottish Lilt!

The Antigonish Highland Society is pleased to present Our Community, our Culture, Our Story A virtual Highland Games Please note All Public Health Protoco...ls were followed as per the regulations at the time of filming. Any groups, pairs etc. are cohorts and when in larger numbers they socially distanced. Masks were not a requirement at the time of filming. See more

Finally, today we have Payton showing us how to do shedding which is a common movement in the Highland Fling! Thank you, Payton There are a few spots left in our classes for the fall in Truro. Feel welcome to message Allyson if you have any questions. To register, follow the link on our website: https://parkerschoolofdance.wordpress.com/classes-and-regi/

Today we have Eden showing us the five highland arm positions! Thank you Eden There are still a few spots left in each class for highland dance lessons starting the week of September 21st in Truro. Register today at https://parkerschoolofdance.wordpress.com/classes-and-regi/ Please message me if you would be interested in an adult class on Monday evenings!!

Classes for highland dance start back September 21/24th! Abby and Josie are showing new dancers how to dance Pas de Basques today! Thank you girls To register, follow this link to our website & registration form: https://parkerschoolofdance.wordpress.com/classes-and-regi/

*WORLD EXCLUSIVE* Fresh from her interview with Deryck Mitchelson, we are proud to bring you a specially choreographed dance produced for Cowal’s Virtual Gather...ing by Rachel McLagan. The dance features eight dancers from Scotland, Canada and USA. Each is either the overall winner or first runner up in the 2018 and 2019 Juvenile, Junior and Adult World Highland Dancing Championship. Dancers are: Marielle Lesperance from Nova Scotia, Canada. Marielle is a seven-time World Highland Dancing Champion including 2018 and 2019 World Adult Highland Dancing Champion; Rebecca Thow, formerly Alberta, Canada and now Belhelvie, Scotland. Rebecca is the 2017 Adult World Highland Dancing Champion and 2018 and 2019 first runner-up; Erin Blair, California, USA is a four-time World Highland Dancing Champion and 2018 first runner-up; Michelle Gordon, from Huntly, Scotland is 2018 Junior World Highland Dancing Champion and 2019 Adult World Highland Dancing Championship finalist; Beret Dernbach from California, USA is 2018 Juvenile World Highland Dancing Champion and 2019 Junior World Highland Dancing Champion; Elise Berrevoets, British Columbia, Canada is 2019 Junior World Highland Dancing Championship first runner-up; Rosey Watt, from MacDuff, Scotland is 2018 Juvenile World Championship second runner-up and 2019 Junior World Highland Dancing Champion and Robyn McMillan from Forth, Scotland is 2018 and 2019 Juvenile World Highland Dancing Championship first runner-up. We are hugely grateful to choreographer Rachel McLagan, formerly Blairgowrie, now Glasgow, who is the 2002 Junior World Highland Dancing Champion and placed in the top five of the Juvenile, Junior and Adult World Highland Dancing Championships on another six occasions. She is an RSOBHD International Adjudicator and has adjudicated in the Scottish National, Scottish Open and World Championship events at the 2014 Cowal Highland Gathering. Rachel is a director of Flings & Things Highland Dance Group and has choreographed and directed performaces for events such as New York Tartan Week, Beijing International Tourism Festival, RBS Six Nations at Murrayfield, Glasgow 2018 European Championship opening celebrations, the RSOBHD 60th Anniversary concert and the Basel Tattoo in Switzerland. They will be dancing to ‘Take My Hand’ by Skerryvore from their 2018 album ‘Evo’. We’d like to say a huge thank you to Skerryvore for the use of their song.

Pretty impressive symmetry for one of her first leaps! Glad I captured the moment Registration for the 2020-2021 year is now open: https://parkerschoolofdance.wordpress.com/classes-and-regi/