ABSTRACT
Margaret Bennett mentions another woman who could Step dance, whom Bennett met in the course of her own research: a former Highland dance champion she discovered that her own mother, brought up in the Stirling area, and by then in her seventies, had a repertoire of step-dances which she had never demonstrated until she saw a film of step-dancing in Canada. Till then, the older lady had thought her daughter who ‘had been trained to dance properly’ might ridicule her. Sheila showed the seminar attendees several steps, done sitting as she was recovering from a leg break. The steps were very percussive in nature with lots of triplets, and shuffles with the toe touching the ground before the heel. Recollections of Step dancing at the crossroads and memories of dancing on bridges as mentioned by Moore have also been shared with the author by people in several places round Scotland.
