Wild Rose Highland Dance Studio
1709 8th Ave NE Calgary, AB, Canada

This month world champion, Rosey Watt is challenging you to practice along with her as she works on her goals. Join Rosey this week as she works on her highcuts.... Highcuts can be very challenging, so she likes to work on her stamina and technique using the "Little and Big" exercise. Enjoy! Now it's your turn... Share your practice routines on your socials using #flingtogether2020 and make sure to track your practices for a chance to win the November prize drawing- a free online group cross training class and 15% off any class package from Fit for Reel by Studiofit! Full details here: https://rmhd.org/index.php/fling-together/ See more

Earlier this year we asked dancers under 16 years of age to help come up with a workshop name and slogan to go alongside a new logo we had designed for a progra...mme to promote and encourage new families to take up highland dancing. We were delighted to receive entries from dancers worldwide and the RSOBHD Office Bearers are excited to announce the winning entries: Winner: Pivot into action Runner-up: Keep it Reel We will be in contact with the winners shortly to organise their prizes. Thank you to everyone who took the time to enter.

During the past few days I have been going back and forth with my son Iain and daughter Emily Kate, because Iain found some original photographs from 1953 in th...e Montreal Gazette, and the picture here shows Seumas MacNeill, the dancer James L MacKenzie, and my father. They gave a recital at the Black Watch Armoury, Bleury Street, Montreal. There is an interesting story about his chanter in that picture. It was an old Robertson, they were the rage before Hardie came to the fore later on. 1952 was the year he won the Bratach Gorm in London, and he told me when he was crossing the street having just played in the Bratach he slipped on the ice and fell, breaking the chanter. He taped it up and then won a playoff with Pipe Major MacLeod apparently. When he got home my grandfather repaired that chanter by soldering a new copper tube around the middle of it and reboring the three finger holes which were affected. I still have that chanter here in the house. Today you'd just throw it away and get another because the bagpipe makers are all making great chanters. In those days a good chanter was like gold, and so were good reeds. Later on my father started making reeds as he found that he could not buy a decent reed anywhere. You can clearly see the soldered copper tube in the picture.

Dance competitors taking part in the Hullachan Scottish Highland Dance open during the 2019 Braemar Gathering Highland Games. Hullachan is a Scottish Gaelic name also used in ancient Irish Gaelic culture, meaning "party". Braemar Gathering and Highland Games Centre . Visit Braemar

An exhibition Hielan' Laddie Highland Dance by champion dancers Rebecca Thow and Iona Black for the 2020 #VirtualHighlandGames in Braemar, Scotland. Iona has 13... Champion Titles, including Scotland, Canada and America, while Rebecca has won many Scottish, Commonwealth, European, North American and Canadian Championships, winning the Adult World Championship title in 2017. Watch out for more films from this special Virtual Games over the weekend. VisitScotland VisitAberdeenshire See more