Caitlin, these stories are endlessly passed on to provide interest for onlookers but that doesn't make them the truth however many Scottish ancestors Sarah has or how long you've been dancing. If you look closely at this painting of a reel from about 1770, you can see the finger snapping. (And you can see the hard shoes - pumps didn't come in until about 1900.) i.pinimg.com/originals/c9/d0/4b/c9d04b835c5180e830e613cf6b01943b.jpg Sean Triubhas has nothing to do with kicking off hated trousers - it was just the name of the tune that was originally used for the dance though "Whistle Ower the Lave O't"" is what is usually used nowadays.
Sorry to disappoint but thats what we say and in traditional is about kicking of the trousers in our style. I know this cause im a dancer amd have traveled all over the world including Amsterdam Scotland America and even Disney land
I think the way you're thinking of saying it is the Scottish way of saying it. Here in Canada we pronounce is "Shawn trews" like she says in the video. It depends on where you're from and your accent :)
Sorry, Sarah, but the stories are all nonsense. For example, the Fling has nothing to do with a stag's antlers - the finger positions are all that remains of the original snapping of fingers to the music
I learnt that the fling was to represent the scottish solders dancing on their shields because you stay in one spot the whole time i guess there are different variations
actually, no it is about stag antlers cause of the position of the arms and don't be like "oh you don't know at all" because I've been doing Highland dancing for 7 years and Sarah's one of my friends
@@caitlinchamberlain1665 These stories have all now been discounted by modern research. Here, if you look closely, you can see the snapping fingers in time to the music i.pinimg.com/originals/c9/d0/4b/c9d04b835c5180e830e613cf6b01943b.jpg Notice also the hard shoes that were banned by the French dancing teachers who came to Scotland in the 1800s. They thought finger snapping and hard shoes were "vulgar"!
