Video: Addressing the Sword in Scottish Highland Dancing

Learn Scottish Highland Dancing, with tips on properly addressing the sword, in this free video dance lesson.

Video Transcript

You could contact me at michiganhighlanddance.com and in this clip I will be dancing and discussing the first step of the pa de bas dance addressing the sword. The first step of the sword is called addressing the sword. I will beginning by showing the introduction of the sword. This introduction that I will be showing your is called is the same introduction that I showed in the fling and it is done by executing a 6 count battle. Counting 1,2,3,4,5,6 and rising on count 7 and holding count 8. You will then execute two pa de bas beginning with the right foot. Pa de bas one and pa de bas two, pa de bas three you will stand and travel to the corner where you are hilt and making a line a line hilt and as you to absorb to meet and you would make a beginning of a quarter of a turn. The first pa de bas you will make a half of a turn made in the same spot. You now have to two chooses you may either execute two pa de bas dancing pa de ba one, pa de ba two and executing four highcuts as we did in the pa de ba highcut dance. Or you will execute a pa de ba assemble disassemble dancing pa de ba, assemble, disassemble and four highcuts. You will then continue this three more times around the sword each making a quarter of a turn. So the next quarter will be pa de ba one, pa de ba two, pa de ba three, and you could make a quarter of a turn and now you make a half turn with your body facing the opposite direction. Now you execute two more pa de bas or pa de ba assemble, disassemble. I will be executing ba de ba assemble, disassemble for the remainder of this set. The next quarter begins facing the back of the sword. Pa de ba one, pa de ba two. Now you will begin making your quarter of a turn pa de ba three, pa de ba four, pa de ba five, assemble, disassemble. Now you will begin the forth quarter.

Addressing the Sword in Scottish Highland Dancing

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