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Research in Cape Breton and Scottish Dance Traditions

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    • Scottish and Cape Breton dance traditions
    • Cape Breton step dancing videos
    • Cape Breton step dancing YouTube videos
    • Research in Angus District, Scotland – Scottish Traditions of Dance Trust (STDT) 1998-2001
  • Publications
    • Book: One With the Music: Cape Breton Step Dance Tradition and Transmission (2015)
    • Book: A Story to Every Dance (2018)
    • Book: Hebridean Step Dancing (2019)
    • Book: Dance Legacies of Scotland: The True Glen Orchy Kick (2020)
    • Book: Dancie John Reid of Newtyle (2022)
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  • Teaching & Training
    • Appointments – Lecturer & Traditional Dance Artist
    • Dance and Ethnochoreology Training
  • Choreography
    • Scottish Social Dances – devised by Mats Melin
    • Elements 2003
    • Generating Heat 2003
    • Vesterled – Northlands Festival 1998
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  • Home-matsmelin
  • Research
    • Scottish and Cape Breton dance traditions
    • Cape Breton step dancing videos
    • Cape Breton step dancing YouTube videos
    • Research in Angus District, Scotland – Scottish Traditions of Dance Trust (STDT) 1998-2001
  • Publications
    • Book: One With the Music: Cape Breton Step Dance Tradition and Transmission (2015)
    • Book: A Story to Every Dance (2018)
    • Book: Hebridean Step Dancing (2019)
    • Book: Dance Legacies of Scotland: The True Glen Orchy Kick (2020)
    • Book: Dancie John Reid of Newtyle (2022)
  • Lorg-Press
  • Teaching & Training
    • Appointments – Lecturer & Traditional Dance Artist
    • Dance and Ethnochoreology Training
  • Choreography
    • Scottish Social Dances – devised by Mats Melin
    • Elements 2003
    • Generating Heat 2003
    • Vesterled – Northlands Festival 1998
  • Links
  • News
  • Contact

Cape Breton step dancing videos

filmed by Mats Melin

1986 – Port Hood: Mary Janet MacDonald with John Campbell

1992 – Sabhal Mor Ostaig, Scotland: Harvey Beaton and Buddy MacMaster

1995 – Harvey Beaton with Buddy MacMaster performing at Sabhal Mor Ostaig, Isle of Skye

1995 – Alec Hughie MacDonald step dancing at West Mabou Hall, August 28

1996 – Eriskay Ceilidh, Ceolas Summer School: Willie Francis Fraser dancing to the fiddle playing of Fr Angus Morris.

1996 – Willie Francis Fraser step dancing at the Ceolas Summer School

1996 – Generations of step dancers: Broad Cove Scottish Concert

1996 – Natasha Roland step dancing to John Campbell on fiddle and Stephanie Wills on piano. Chestico Days, Port Hood

1996 – Blair MacDonald step dancing to Buddy MacMaster and Mary Elizabeth MacInnes, Chestico Days, Port Hood

1997 – Eriskay Ceilidh, Ceolas Summer School: Wendy MacIsaac, Kinnon Beaton, Alexander MacDonnell

1997 – Mary Janet MacDonald, Ceolas Summer School, Southend Hall Ceilidh, South Uist

2007 – John Robert Gillis, Chestico Days, Port Hood.

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