Irene Cunningham & Sophie Stephenson (Sean Nos/Scottish Step Dance)

[@joedelariva3482]

WOW!

[@det4897]

LADIES ... Cool !

[@clickerbootsmoir1012]

You need metal taps

[@clickerbootsmoir1012]

Need metal taps on your shoes

[@glasgowbrian1469]

It’s not modern tap dance!

[@beezee9555]

This isn't Sean Nos dancing....and that's not Scottish step dance. What is this?

[@SophabulousSteps]

Anything you want it to be :)

[@TheDemigreg]

Sean nos Irish step dancing would be closer to buck dancing and there isn't a thing called scottish step dancing, no traditional form of scottish dancing resembles step dancing, unless you're talking about the style introduced into scotland by Irish immigrants in the 19th century.

[@brianmacleod6272]

@@TheDemigreg nach neònach do chuid bheachdan: what Sophie demonstrates here is what she has learned from us: the Gaels of Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. Our traditional step-dancing, which very closely resembles sean nós - to which it is, broadly speaking, related - has its origins among the Gaels of the West Highlands and Hebrides. It was brought with our ancestors to Nova Scotia during the post-Culloden, Highland Clearances diaspora from the end of the 18th to the mid 19th-century, and we cherish and perpetuate this tradition to this day. The notion of a spurious "Irish influence" falls apart completely by virtue of the fact that no Irish immigrant communities existed near the Gaelic communities of Nova Scotia's emigrant Gàidhealtachd. These communities, formed by the process known as "chain migration", reconstituted and reformed a microcosm of the regions from which these people came, right down to their own distinct musical traditions and dialects of Scottish Gaelic. What they did share in common, however, was their dancing traditions. The attempts to label our step-dancing traditions as "Irish" have all been a result of profound ignorance...

[@johndanielharold3633]

@@brianmacleod6272 I thought the Gaels of Cape Breton were Left Footers.

[@glasgowbrian1469]

All Irish, Scottish, English, Welsh, French Breton, Cornish (England) have a shared Celtic heritage of both dancing and step dancing. But it evolves over hundreds of years separately into "anything you want it to be", as Sophie says. I’ve even seen the Appalachian chug step used in the nearly extinct “Shetland Reel” in The Scottish Shetlands. But it’s stronger in Ireland. I use any step that I like, and my legs can do. Stuff formal competitions and rules, let the people decide!