HIGHLAND DANCING

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21685, 20 January 1936, Page 18

HIGHLAND DANCING

- —♦ MODERN INNOVATION CONDEMNED qlB DESTRUCTION OF DIGN|M| (SBBSS ASSOCIATION TSUtOaiMijl: AUCKLAND. “Highland dancing which r #|B rounded by a jealous regard forwili tion will live vigorously, but taeinH ment its national character is 'fifaSl ficed to the thirst for innovation fflH fall into decay and earn the cogWHi deserved by such hvfaridisaticmgaHH late years Highland become commercialised through POTH taking up the art not for the aryiwß| but as a means of gaining sports gatherings” ' ./ffSB These remarks were made by .3B Alex. Sutherland, of Dunedin. ffiiiaM now visiting Auckland, and authority bn Highland dancing.'.iiaß Sutherland criticised the . introduce new steps into folk daPWI and therefore destroy tradition., ut9| Highland dancing the steps mustJMj true to type. ~ “I am sorry to say that in rffgjjj years a lot of modern innovationiKjSifi crept in which have destroyed certain degree the character anadaß nity of Highland dances” be saldJai a dancer who is trained in aaotSß school of dancing, such as -FgjwßM Italian, or Russian, takes up HigtßMH he will dance it as a foreigne&ira Introduce into it things which Ira natural to his own country, but übwß| ural to Scotland, . ;;V«| ‘The day may even come wheni#s|| will be getting American tap dattWßß introduced into Highland dancinftMß| should determinedly hold to tradittCil Otherwise we may* some day sdßllHfl Seann triubhais jazzed.”- ‘ |||