Competitors in the Seann Triubhas or Shawn Trews, Scottish Highland dance open heats, held during the 2023 Ballater Highland Games. This was at Ballater in Deeside, Aberdeenshire, Scotland on Thursday 10th August 2023.
The dancers were (L-R) Michelle Gordon, Brogan Martin and Molly Smith, all of whom are champion Highland dancers. This was just one of the heats and overall in this dance Brogan was awarded 1st place and Michelle 2nd.
Seann Triubhas is a dance of celebration developed in response to the repealing by the English of the Act of Proscription in 1747, which restored to the Scots the right to wear kilts and play the bagpipes once more. The first slow part of the dance mocks the restrictions imposed by the trousers, while the movement of the second part shows the legs shaking off the trousers and returning to the freedom of the kilt. The dance then progresses from slow time to quick time as the final celebration of the rediscovered freedom.
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