Spring School of Scottish Dancing 2019
The 6th Spring School of Scottish Dancing 2019 - the most outstanding and the most important event in the Scottish Dancing Culture in Russia - was held in Kazan from May 1 to May 5.
The School program included the workshops in all styles of Scottish Dancing: Scottish Country Dancing, Highland dancing, Ladie’s step and Cape Breton Dancing. The workshops were taught by the best teachers from the whole world. There were also Highland Dancing competitions (according to the SOBHD rules) and in the competition of the SCD Demonstration teams.
Our dancers come from all parts of Russia. Most of them are young and energetic. They often haven't got financial opportunity to go to St Andrews school or international workshops, so for them our school is the only possibility to get aquainted with famous teachers and to maintain high RSCDS standards. This allows our participants from distant areas to learn from the best practices and inspires them for continuing study of Scottish dancing and spreading Scottish culture around.
We were glad to see experienced dancers as well as beginners from all around the world. This would allow our participants to become acquainted with different traditions and schools of Scottish dancing.
With rich history, deep culture and strong economic influence, Kazan holds the title of "The Third Capital of Russia" (after Moscow and Saint Petersburg). By many measures, Kazan has the one of the highest standards of living in Russia. Located between Europe and Asia, having both Russian and Tatar populations, Kazan peacefully blends Muslim and Christian cultures. This vibrant city with over 1000 years of history is an excellent travel destination, and the number of tourists visiting it is rapidly increasing every year.
Teachers
Ron Wallace
Ron is an outstanding dance instructor and devisor who has a great amount of knowledge and experience to share with us.
Now he lives in California and teaches Scottish Country, Highland, and Step Dances. His name is famous among Scottish dancers from all around the world as he leads many workshops in USA, Canada, Europe and Australia, including RSCDS Summer Schools in St. Andrews and TAC Summer Schools in Canada, and judges competitions.
Ron has never visited Russia before, but he is widely known and admired here as SCD and Step dance deviser, accomplished performer and composer of dance music. Russian dancers are quite eager to meet him and to learn from him. And Ron is excited to visit our country and to get acquainted with us.
Ron is going to teach Scottish Country, Step and Cape Breton Dancing at our School.
Gábor Turi
Gábor got in touch with SCD in Hungary in 1986 and his relationship lasts continuously since then. He was the founder of the Budapest SCD Club, first chairman, teacher and leader of the organisation committee for the popular biennial Budapest International Weekend Courses for more than a decade. He gained his full teaching certificate in 2001 and he is regularly teaching from that time. At the beginning he taught all the classes in Hungary which kept him busy 2-3 times a week but as the next generation grown up in the group and took over some of the regular teaching duties from him he was able to look for other challenges as well. He started to teach at day classes or weekend courses in other countries and also became a founding member of the International Team for Newcastle Festival with whom he won more than 10 trophies in the last 10 years including the Maurice Cooper trophy for the overall highest score as a member of the dancing team or later as a coach for mixed, men’s or even children’s teams.
Gábor is not only a country dance teacher but a dance devisor as well, his dances already turned up at evening dances and balls in many countries worldwide. He is member of the Budapest Scottish Dance Club and the Viennese Branch of The Royal Scottish Country Dance Society. In recognition of his outsanding service and loyalty to the RSCDS he was presented with the Society’s Scroll of Honour in 2018.
Gábor will teach Scottish Country Dancing at our School.
Deryck Mitchelson
Deryck is one of the most famous Highland Dance teachers in the world. He won six Highland Dancing World Championships (in 1985, 1986, 1988, 1991, 1994 and 1995). He is also SOBHD judge and UKA examiner.
Deryck was born in a family of dancers, and he can’t remember himself without dance in his life. His first teacher was his mother Wilma Tolmie — Highland Dancing champion in 1965. His older brother Gareth won four Highland Dancing World Championships. Besides judging, teaching and participating in SOBHD, Deryck maintains Toeandheel.com website, which is widely known among Highland dancers. He also plays piano in Cutting Edge Ceilidh Band.
Deryck is going to visit Russia for the first time. This is a great honour for our country and exciting news for everyone interested in Highland and Scottish National dancing.
Deryck will be judging Highland competitions and teaching Highland classes at our school.
Yulia Tkacheva
Yulia has been dancing Scottish dances since 2004. She has been teaching in RSCDS Moscow Branch School since 2007. In 2009 Yulia took the teaching course by Anne Taylor (United Kingdom) and passed the exams for the first part of the teaching certificate. In July 2014 she attended Unit 5 course by Wendy Jaeger (New Zealand) and Rebecca Blackhall-Peters (Canada), successfully passed final exam and received RSCDS Full Teaching Certificate. Now she is the main teacher in Moscow Scottish Country Dancing School.
She regularly gives workshops in different towns of Russia - from Sant Petersburg to Khabarovsk.
She is not only a great teacher, she is also a brilliant organizer. Yulia organized many RSCDS Moscow Branch events, including yearly Moscow Ball, ceilidh dancing evenings and charity performances. She is a cofounder and irreplaceable member of the organisation committee of Spring School in Russia.
One of her main interests is preparing new teachers. Yulia has organized 3 teacher's courses with exams. She did her best to support the candidates and provide them with all necessary information. She also has been a mentor for Unit 4 exams for the half of the certified RSCDS teachers in Russia.
Yulia will teach Cape Breton for beginners at our School.
Musicians
Ian Muir
Ian started playing the accordion at school when he was 12 and playing for dances with his own band at the age of 14. At the age of 17 he was lucky enough to be invited to join McBain’s Band, one of the South’s of England’s most popular Scottish country dance bands at the time. In 1986 he formed his own band and since its inception the band has been well received both in the UK and abroad. The band has appeared twice on BBC television, and has broadcast twice on Radio Scotland’s Take the Floor dance programme.
Ian’s philosophy for the band has always been that the musical arrangements the band uses in its repertoire must be as good to listen to as they are to dance to and that the future of the music lies in encouraging youngsters. Ian is also a keen composer and many of his compositions have been published and recorded by other Scottish dance bands, and several have been adopted as originals for dances. As a solo musician Ian has played the accordion for classes and day schools and has been a member of the Summer School at St Andrews staff for the last 6 years. He is the current Musical Director of the Royal Scottish Country Dance Society.
Ian played at School 2017. This year he will play at joint classes and evening events.
Judith Muir
Judith has an historical family interest in Scottish traditional music. She started playing in a family band and, after briefly joining the Craigellachie Scottish Dance Band in the late 1980s, Judith left and co-formed Sound Company (a three-piece Scottish Dance Band based in the south of England). For the following 15 years Sound Company played all over the UK and Europe, including a number of trips to the Shetland Fiddle and Accordion Festival. Following Sound Company’s retirement in 2003, Judith re-joined Craigellachie.
Judith has considerable experience playing for classes: she is the resident musician at the BHS Border Branch Technique Class, has played for numerous RSCDS day and weekend schools, including the New Zealand Summer School, Australian Winter School, and St Andrews Summer Schools. She is also the pianist with The Craigellachie Band. In her «spare» time she is involved in barn owl conservation, and has recently taken up beekeeping.
Judith played at School 2017. This year she will play at joint classes and evening events.
Timetable
| Date, Time | Hall 1 (yoga) | Hall 2 (fitness) | Hall 3 (big hall) |
| Wednesday May 1 |
12:00-13:30 SCD (Gabor) 15:00-16:30 LS (Ron) |
15:00-16:30 CB, базовые (Yulia) 16:30-18:00 SCD (Gabor) |
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| Thursday May 2 |
11:00-12:30 SCD (Gabor) 15:00-17:00 LS (Ron) |
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12:00-16:30 HD (competitions) 19:00-22:00 Ball |
| Friday May 3 |
12:00-13:30 SCD (Gabor) 15:00-16:20 CB (Ron) |
13:00-14:30 CB (Ron) 14:30-16:00 HD (Deryck) 19:00-21:00 Ceildh |
21:00-22:00 |
| Saturday May 4 |
12:00-14:00 HD (Deryck) 14:00-16:00 SCD (Gabor) 16:00-18:00 HD (Deryck) |
12:00-13:30 SCD (Gabor) 13:30-15:30 CB (Ron) |
19:00-22:00 |
| Sunday May 5 |
10:00-12:00 SCD (Ron) |
Used abbreviations
| Abbr. | Description | ||||
| SCD | Scottish Country Dancing | ||||
| CB | Cape Breton | ||||
| HD | Highland Dancing | ||||
| LS | Ladies' Step |
All halls are located in the Akimbo fitness centre at address: 90 Yulius Fuchik str., Shopping mall "Frant", 3rd floor.
Ball programme
THE FLYING SCOTSMAN J32 3/4L Hugh A Thurston: Dance Scottish, A resource for teaching SCD in schools
| 1-8 | 1L followed by 2L+3L cross, cast behind 1M, in front of 2M, behind 3M, cross & dance up to places |
| 9-16 | 1M followed by 2M+3M repeat around Ladies |
| 17-24 | 1s slip step down the middle & up to 2nd place |
| 25-32 | 2s+1s+3s slip step down & back |
THE DURAN RANGER R32 3/4L RSCDS XIII 1
| 1-8 | 1s lead down the middle, Lady crosses under own arm & they lead up to 2nd place opposite sides |
| 9-16 | 2s+1s dance R&L 1s end facing 1st corners |
| 17-24 | 1s turn 1st corners RH, turn partner LH, turn 2nd corners RH & turn partner LH to places |
| 25-32 | 2s+1s circle 4H round & back |
GREYFRIAR'S BOBBY S32 3/3L Barry Priddey: Twelvesome Reel and 4 more
| 1-8 | 1s cross RH, cast 1 place & turn LH |
| 9-16 | 1s dance reels of 3 on opposite sides giving LSh to 1st corner, 1s 1/2 turn RH as 2s & 3s loop round into middle |
| 17-24 | 2s+1s+3s dance Allemande & end crossing LH to opposite sides |
| 25-28 | 3s+1s+2s chase anticlockwise for 2 bars & cast back to form lines across (Men at top & Ladies at bottom) |
| 29-32 | All change places with partner RH & chase clockwise to own sides. 3 1 2 |
THE ARGYLL SQUARE J96 4S Roy Goldring: RSCDS XLIII 10
| 1-8 | 1s+3s dance RH across, 1s & 3s dance out thru 2s/4s back to places (Ladies between & Men round side couples) |
| 9-16 | 1s+3s dance LH across, 1s & 3s dance out thru 4s/2s back to places (Men between & Ladies round side couples) |
| 17-32 | 2s+4s repeat bars 1-16 |
| 33-40 | 1s & 3s set to partners, change places RH, 1L+3L change places LH, 1M+3M change places RH (1L & 3L now on partners left) |
| 41-48 | All Ladies dance R&L (1L+2L also 3L+4L start RH) |
| 49-56 | All Men dance R&L (1M+4M & 2M+3M start RH) |
| 57-64 | 2s & 4s set to partners, change places RH, 2L+4L change places LH, 2M+4M change places RH (2L & 4L now on partners left) |
| 65-72 | All turn partners RH 1.1/4 times (Ladies backs to centre), all set, all 3/4 turn partners LH to end facing corners |
| 73-80 | All dance interlocking reels of 4 (RSh round corner, pass partner LSH, RSh round other corner & pass partner LSh to place) |
| 81-88 | All Ladies dance in front of corner, behind opposite Man to original places, Men dance in front of 'new' corner, behind partner to places |
| 89-96 | All circle 8H round & back |
J. B. MILNE R32 3/4L Hugh Foss: Angus Fitchet Scottish Dance Album
| 1-8 | 1M+2L set advancing & turn RH, 1L+2M set advancing & turn RH |
| 9-16 | 1s set to each other & turn 2H, cast to 2nd place & Petronella turn to Lady between 2s & Man between 3s |
| 17-24 | 1s set & 3/4 turn RH while 2s+3s change places RH on sides & set, 1s repeat but 2s & 3s cross RH & set |
| 25-32 | 1s set & change places RH while 2s+3s change places RH on sides & set, 1s cast round corner to 2nd pl own sides as 2s+3s cross RH & all set |
SALUTE TO GLASGOW S32 3/4L John A Johnston: Glasgow Branch A Collection of Dances for the 75th Anniversary 1923-1998
| 1-8 | 1s+2s set advancing, dance 1/2 Diamond Poussette, 2s+1s+3s set |
| 9-16 | 2s+1s+3s dance the Knot. 1s finish facing 1st corners |
| 17-24 | 1s+1st corner pstns dance 1/2 reel of 4, 1s pass LSh & dance 1/2 reel with 2nd corner pstns. All on opp sides (2) (1) (3) |
| 25-32 | 2s+1s+3s Set+Link for 3 once, 1s turn 2H 1.1/4 times to 2nd place own side while 3s & 2s dance clockwise 1/2 way round to end 2 1 3 |
ANTARCTICA BOUND J32 4/4L Roy Goldring: The Scotia Suite of Scottish Country Dances
| 1-8 | 1s+2s cross RH, cast down 2 places, cross RH & cast up to places |
| 9-16 | 3s+4s cross RH, cast up 2 places, cross RH & cast back to places |
| 17-24 | 1s+4s Adv+Ret (diagonally), 1s cast bottom as others step up |
| 25-32 | All circle 8H round & back |
STAIRCASE IN STYRIA R40 5/5L Margaret Gray: CD booklet of The Sunday Class Dance Book 2
| 1-8 | 1s+2M also 3s+4M dance RH across, 1s+2L also 3s+4L dance LH across |
| 9-16 | 1s+4M also 3s+5M dance RH across, 1s+4L also 3s+5L dance LH across & 1L also 3L end facing out Ladies side with partners behind them |
| 17-24 | 1s & 3s dance out Ladies' side & cast up 1 place, cross to Mens side & cast up to original place Ladies looping round by the right |
| 25-32 | 1s cross & cast 1 place, 1s followed by 3s dance up & cast (1s to 3rd place, 3s to 2nd place) |
| 33-40 | 1s cross & cast 1 place, 1s followed by 5s dance up & cast (1s to 5th place, 5s to 4th place). 2 3 4 5 1 |
| NB - No stepping up or down until bar 27 |
LORD ELGIN'S REEL S32 3/4L RSCDS XXVI 5
| 1-8 | 1M+2L set & turn 2H, 1L+2M set & turn 2H |
| 9-16 | 1s crossing down RH cast down behind 3s, lead up to top, cross RH & cast to face 1st corners |
| 17-24 | 1s turn 1st corners RH, passing RSh turn 2nd corner LH & pass LSh to end in lines across 1L between 2s & 1M between 3s |
| 25-32 | Lines Adv+Ret 1 step twice, 1s turn 2H 1.1/4 times to places |
BEST SET IN THE HALL J32 3/4L Helen Greenwood: RSCDS XLVI 7
| 1-8 | 1s set & 1L followed by partner casts below 3s. 1L crosses & casts up to face her 1st corner while 1M dances up the middle to face 1st corner |
| 9-12 | 1s set to 1st corners & dance RSh round each other into 3rd corner (pstn) while 1st corners dance in & turn right about to face their original position |
| 13-16 | 1s+1st crnr person set & 1st crnr persons dance RSh round each other into diag opp crnrs while 1s dance in & pivot to right to face 2nd crnrs |
| 17-24 | 1s repeat bars 9-16 with 2nd corners & end passing RSh to 2nd place opposite sides. (3)(1)(2) |
| 25-32 | 2s+1s+3s chase clockwise 1/2 way & turn partners RH |
BILL LITTLE'S STRATHSPEY S32 4/4L Roy Goldring: A Third Book of Graded Scottish Country Dances
| 1-8 | 1s +3s dance down the middle for 2 steps, turn 2H, dance up to places & cast down 1 place. 2 1 4 3 |
| 9-16 | 2s+1s also 4s+3s dance Diamond Poussette |
| 17-24 | 1s & 3s set, 1/2 turn partners RH & dance out to chase clockwise 1/2 way (to change places) |
| 25-32 | All circle 8H round & back. 2 3 4 1 |
CRIEFF FAIR R24 3/4L Thomas (19C) Wilson: RSCDS X 5
| 1-8 | 1s+2s set & cross RH, set & cross RH back to places |
| 9-16 | 1s lead down the middle & lead up & 1L turns under her own right arm to face 1st corners |
| 17-24 | 1s set to 1st corners, set to 2nd corners, set to each other across the dance & cross RH to 2nd place own sides |
S-LOCOMOTION S32 4/4L Ken Jones: RSCDS XLI 8
| 1-8 | 1L+2L cross passing partner LSh & cast down 2 places as 3M+4M cross & cast up 2 places, top 4 Men also bottom 4 Ladies dance LH across. |
| 9-16 | 1M+2M cross passing opp dancer RSh & cast down 2 places as 3L+4L cross & cast up 2 places, top 2 cpls also bottom 2 cpls dance RH across. |
| 17-24 | 3s+4s+1s+2s dance 1/2 RSh reels of 4 on sides, 1s+4s+3s (bottom 3 couples) dance 1/2 reels of 3 on sides. |
| 25-32 | All set, cross RH, 2s+3s also 4s+1s circle 4H round to left. |
THE KILT MAKER R32 4/4L Priscilla Burrage: Pinewoods Collection Vol 2
| 1-8 | 1L followed by 1M dances Fig of 8 round 2M & 3M passing out between them to start & end in centre at top of set |
| 9-16 | 1s quickly slip step to bottom & set while 2s+3s+4s set & cross RH, 1s slip step back to top & set while 2s+3s+4s set & cross RH |
| 17-24 | 1M+2L DoSiDo while 1L+2M set & cast (1s in 2nd place), 1s repeat with 3s ending in 3rd place |
| 25-32 | 1s repeat above with 4s to end in 4th place & turn RH |
BURNS NIGHT J32 2/4L Robert McOwen: Celebrate Fifty Years of Dancing with the Boston Branch
| 1-8 | 1M+2L cross RH, 1L+2M cross RH, 2s+1s Set+Link |
| 9-16 | 1L+2M cross RH, 1M+2L cross RH, 2s+1s Set+Link back to original places |
| 17-24 | 1s+2s 1/2 turn RH, slip step down for 2 bars & back, 1/2 turn 2H (PdB) to face up |
| 25-32 | 1s+2s dance Allemande |
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Social dancing programme
MISS ALLIE ANDERSON J32 3/4L Mina Corson: The Leaflet Dances with Music
THE MONTGOMERIES' RANT R32 3/4L Castle Menzies (18C): RSCDS X 1
SUGAR CANDIE S32 3/4L RSCDS XXVI 9
THE WANDERING WALLABY J32 4/4L Peter Fish: RSCDS 50 7
THE DIAMOND QUARRIE R32 3/4L Elaine Brunken: Moments in Time
THRESHER ROUND S32 3+3RR John Duncan Keppie: Haliburton SCD Book #6: Twenty-Ten
UNION JACK J32 4C Square set Vladimir Grabuzov
DA RAIN DANCIN' R32 3/4L Ron Wallace: Whiteadder Collection
SEVEN TO SEVEN S32 3/3L Gábor Turi: A Reel Goulash
MAGIC MOMENTS J32 6/6L Wesley Clindinning: Canada's Irish Rover
CORRIEVRECKAN M128 4S Arthur C Boswell: Carnforth Collection of SC Dances 3
THE CRANBERRY TART J32 3/4L Terry Glasspool: Dances from the Seven Year Itch
SUENO'S STONE R32 3/4L Neil M Grant: Magazine Dances 2005-2009
SANDS OF MORAR S32 3/4L Barry Priddey: RSCDS XLV 6
THE WILD GEESE J32 3/4L RSCDS XXIV 3
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