Highland Dancers

You will want to don your preferred tartan and leap to the activity when Heather Morris teaches and performs the woman preferred Scottish Highland and Irish action dances close to brand new England at personal studios, intensive camps, as well as other competitions. Heather infuses a strong mixture of enjoyable discovering with practiced control to the woman life-long passion for party customs from Scotland and Ireland.

Having started carrying out at 7-years-old with all the St. Andrews Highland Dancers of Vermont, she's continued her studies to include the novice through Premier quantities of highland dancing in the us, Canada & Scotland. Throughout the woman early development, she additionally been trained in dancing, jazz, conventional New The united kingdomt folk party, vocals and acting. As a grown-up, she included Irish Step Dance to the woman arsenal by training because of the Alice McNeish School of Irish Dance.

Heather competed and performed in amateur ranks for many years, advancing through the medal examinations with Scottish examiners through the Scottish Dancer Teachers’ Alliance (SDTA). As a tyke, she appeared as one of four kids in Burlington’s Lyric Theater creation of Brigadoon in 1984 and toured west European countries with Folkids of Vermont in 1986.

The woman love and commitment to dance continued through university where she led the Scottish Dancers during the university of Wooster in Ohio (1990 to 1994). Additionally, she choreographed an area high school's production of Brigadoon, performed at the half-time reveals for university football games, and toured the united states. Various other performance groups have actually included anything Scottish Highland Dancers therefore the Washington Scottish Pipe Band, both based in Washington, DC. While touring together with them, she performed in the National Cathedral, the Potomac Celtic Festival, and also at the National Tartan Day.

Heather is a Fellow utilizing the British Association of Teachers of Dancing (BATD) and an associate for the Scottish Dancer Teachers’ Alliance (SDTA). She primarily shows throughout Vermont frequently at locations in Burlington, Richmond, Essex, Waterbury, and St. Johnsbury. She offers numerous week-long summer time camps in which members understand traditional crafts and develop dance skills. Heather takes pleasure in preparing the woman pupils to participate in regional activities, national and intercontinental tournaments and examinations.