Assorted Scottish Dance links

This is a page of links I've collected more or less related to Scottish Dancing. I have nothing to do with these sites, so can take neither credit nor blame - if you want to comment, please contact the maintainer(s) of the site in question.

• The Royal Scottish Country Dance Society; they also have pages specifically for members.
• The Teachers' Association of Canada, an association of teachers of Scottish country dancing formed in 1958 to assist one another where possible.
• SCD Teachers' Association Scotland, TAS is the Scottish counterpart of TAC.
• The Strathspey mailing list home page.
  • Web version of the DanceData database.
  • World SCD map.
  • Keith Eric Grant's article on SCD injuries (by courtesy of TACtalk). This is a PDF document and requires Adobe Acrobat Reader or some such.
• Alan Paterson's DanceData database of Scottish Country dances.
• All Hands Round - a Youth SCD Resource site in North America.
• The hints and tips section of this site.
• The Scottish Dance Archives - published dance leaflets in the 1970s and 1980s; some now available online.
• Flickr collection of Scottish Country Dancing photos.
• Dancing on College Campuses - notes on running a student dance group.
• An SCD CD index hosted by Music in Scotland.
• Charles Upton's MiniCribs - database of cribs which can be used for compiling crib sheets for balls.
• Dirk Taeger's DanceMaster DanceMaster program to generate diagrammatic cribs for Scottish Country dances.
• Mel and Ellie Briscoe's SCD page.
• Stirling RSCDS web site, includes good history of Scottish Dance section.
• Scottish Dance Music section of ScotLoads - Scottish based MP3 music downloads.
• Tools for the Visualisation of Scottish Country Dances, my final year BSc project; includes a dance animation tool.
• Ruary Laidlaw's Reeltime pages - various publications including a teacher's manual called "For a Year and a Day" that gives a suggested sequence for teaching the four basic steps and all the basic formations - 67 items in all.
• Crawford Woodman's animated pas de basque feet.
• James Smith's Scottish Country Dance animations.
• Felix Hamelbeck's dance animation and devising java applet.
• RSCDS Preliminary Teacher's Exam Questions, collected by Bob Blair and his wife.
• RSCDS Teacher's Exam Questions, collected by Bob Blair and his wife.
• Alexandre Rafalovitch's blog entry about flashcards he used to prepare for his RSCDS Preliminary Exam.
• Martin Bowring's Scottish Country Dance Animations project - a project to develop a series of Scottish Country Dance animations describing steps, formations and popular dances.
• Colin Hume - folk dance caller in England. Colin has developed a Dance Organiser program, to enable callers to organise their bookings and dance programmes.
• ScotScores - Muriel Johnstone's web site.
• Pinewoods annual English/Scotttish Dance camp, Massachussetts, USA.
• Dianne Phelan's New Mexico dance calendar
• Semple Travel. John Semple Travel have been involved in booking holidays for Scottish Country Dancers for more than a decade. Scottish Country, Ceilidh and Line Dancing holidays operate on a yearly basis to warm winter Mediterranean climates.
• Hints on running a dance:
  • My hints and tips page.
  • Kent W. Smith's thoughts.
• Dance leaflets on the web:
  • "Badger's Sett", Ian Brockbank's dances.
  • Ian Brockbank's collection of ceilidh dances.
  • Eight by Thirty-Two - a blog of new dances run by Lara Friedman-Shedlov.
  • Oberdan Otto's index of cribs on the Web, his collection of dances, and The Culver City Collection.
  • Ardbrae Dancers' collection of dances.
  • Anselm Lingnau's "Merry Dancers" Leaflets.
  • Collecta Ursis - Berne SCD's local dances.
  • Ceartmatha's collection of ceilidh dances.
  • David Kilgore Aldridge's dances.
  • Dianna Shipman's collection of locally devised dances (local to Houston, Texas).
  • SCDS Erlangen's collection of dances.
  • Martin Sheffield's leaflets, and part 2.
  • Martin Mulligan's collection of dances.
  • Sam and Jodi Reynolds' dances.
  • San Franciso branch's collection of dances.
  • Sue McKinnell's dances.
  • Rudd Baron's collection of dances.
  • The Strathspey Reel.
  • Sue Petyt's collection of dances.
  • Dances by Mel Briscoe and friends.
  • Navel Productions: Rudolf and Sybille Spägele's site. Includes dances and assorted other related pages.
• Edge Reels' Illustrated Scottish Country Dances book.

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I also have other pages of links:

• Scottish Dance: General Scottish Dancing links.
• Dance types:
  • Scottish Country Dancing
  • Highland Dancing
  • Ceilidh Dancing
  • Scottish Step Dance
  • Other dance forms
• Bands: Scottish dance bands (includes descriptions).
• Groups: Scottish Dance groups world-wide
• Events: Other events pages.
• Health: Looking after your body, managing injuries.
• Music: Scottish and Folk music pages
• Email lists: Relevant mailing and discussion lists.
• Blogs: online columns.
• Scottish links
  • Edinburgh links.
  • Scotland: Miscellaneous links to do with Scotland.
  • Tartans and tartan viewers.
  • Kilts, kiltmaking and Scottish stores.
  • Tourist: Where to stay/what to do in Edinburgh/Scotland.
• Miscellaneous: Other miscellaneous links which may be interesting.
• Web: Web stuff, including search engines and directories.

Or try ScotFind Scottish Links engine.

If you have any other links you would like me to include here, please mail me with the URL and some details.

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Last updated 31-03-04 .

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ian@scottishdance.net
Edinburgh, Scotland