Gregor

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[Gregor @saorsa22]

@Serahtemi2 Crock of shite

[Gregor @saorsa22]

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[Gregor @saorsa22]

@Jevrix9 Utter bullshit .. you state it was two years ago in you opening statement . Then say years later you reflected on it ..your just another attention seeker .. sad c-nt .

[Gregor @saorsa22]

@MyGolfSpy I remember playing the molitor in the triangular boxes

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@McDonalds

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Disgusting

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@StandardLifeUK

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[Gregor @saorsa22]

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Shit post !

[Sara Salyers @SSalyers2]

500 years? 😢 In fact what you’re seeing there with the arms akimbo and pointy toes was created for Victoria and Albert. Based on the traditional dances of Scotland, these balletic reconstructions are all we teach now. So proud of our colonisation.

What happened to real Scottish dance?

Genocide, exile/ethnic cleansing, prohibition of gaelic and pipes and of large gatherings and a sudden royal interest in ‘romantic’ Scottish highland traditions - so long as these were palatable to the English aristocracy.

Here’s a Chat GPT summary:
2. Victorian “rescue culture” replaced traditional forms with aesthetics
Victorian Britain was obsessed with:
•saving “dying” traditions
•cataloguing and polishing them
•making them morally and visually acceptable

Instead of asking:
“How did people actually dance?”
They asked:
“What looks noble, picturesque, and disciplined?”
Enter:
•ballet-trained teachers
•military drill influence
•court and competition settings
The result:
•arms lifted for symmetry and display
•feet turned out and pointed
•upright torsos and elevated carriage

Not because that’s how Highlanders danced but because that’s what Victorian elites recognised as ‘good dancing’.

3. Competitions froze the redesign in place. This is the critical mechanism.
Once Highland dancing became:
•competitive
•judged
•rule-based
…movement choices became law.
Arms-up, stylised positions:
•are easy to standardise
•easy to judge from a distance
•visually distinct from Irish and English step dance
By the late 19th century:
•judges were trained in this version
•dancers trained for judges
•deviation = incorrect, not “traditional”

At that point, the redesign stopped being a choice and became the tradition.

4. The diaspora locked it in amber
Scottish emigrant communities (Canada, Australia, New Zealand) played a huge role. Diaspora culture tends to:
•freeze the version it leaves with
•treat it as sacred
•defend it against later change
So a Victorian, ballet-inflected Highland style:
•spread globally
•gained institutional authority
•outlived living memory of earlier forms
Meanwhile, back in Scotland:
•local, non-competitive step dancing continued quietly
•but without the same prestige or platform

5. “Highland dancing” ≠ “Scottish folk dance” (but the label stuck)
Here’s the uncomfortable truth:
What we now call Highland dancing is:
•a Victorian stage genre
•shaped by ballet, drill, and romantic nationalism
•not representative of true Scottish vernacular dance

6. Why the arms especially became untouchable
Arms-up positions became symbolic:
•of control
•of refinement
•of “Scottishness” as imagined by Victorians
Even when historians later noted the mismatch:
•changing arms would destabilise judging criteria
•it would fracture competitive authority
•it would admit the tradition was constructed
So the system defends itself.

Want to know what it *should* look like? Check out Irish ‘river dance’. As for a true sword dance this would have been related to battle preparation and would have used real swords. In the
Modern Sword Dance with emphasis on:
◦high extensions
◦pointed toes
◦springy jumps
The danger has been aestheticised away. Earlier form
•Arms:
◦held low
◦used minimally for balance
◦not codified
•Upper body stayed calm to support accuracy
Think: hands still because mistakes matter.
Modern form
•Arms:
◦lifted into fixed positions
◦symmetrical and expressive
◦visually frame the legs
•Arm shapes signal “Highland style” more than function
These arms would actively interfere with blade-avoidance in a real test.

[Gregor @saorsa22]

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[Gregor @saorsa22]

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[Gregor @saorsa22]

#Scotcoin
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[Gregor @saorsa22]

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[Gregor @saorsa22]

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