Dance Legacies of Scotland: The True Glen Orchy Kick

Contents

• Introduction,
• 1. 'I wish I had it in my power to describe to you': introductory observations on Step dance and its place in Scotland,
• 2. From regional variations to standardisation of vernacular dance,
• 3. Na brogan dannsaidh /The dancing shoes: foot anatomy, footwear, and body posture,
• 4. Gaelic references and continental European connections,
• 5. From Hornpipes to High Dances: historical terms and overlapping usage,
• 6. Hyland step forward: eighteenth-century accounts,
• 7. A few more flings and shuffles: nineteenth-century accounts, 1800-1839,
• 8. Aberdeenshire to the Hebrides: nineteenth-century accounts, 1840-1899,
• 9. Breakdown: twentieth-century accounts,
• 10. An t-Seann Duthaich : dancing in the Scottish diaspora,
• 11. First-hand Step dance encounters and recollections in Scotland from the 1980s to 2016 collected by Mats Melin,
• 12. Weaving the steps to the music,
• 13. Echoes and reflections