World Highland Dancing Conference October 2011
Cushla Piesse and I attended this Conference in Las Vegas recently. While there Cushla assisted me in conducting four Workshops on the Academy Irish and Sailors Step dances. There was very good attendance and interest in all our sessions.
The Academy Sailors Hornpipe is always a winner and it was great to see so many take to the floor to try out some of the Academy‘s more “interesting” steps not danced competitively elsewhere in the world.
The Irish dances created great interest too with the variety of movements and step construction options creating good discussion and much hilarity on the floor when learning some of our Academy syllabus movements.
The variety of Workshop options offered to those attending made making a choice of what to attend at times difficult! However between us we got to attend some excellent topics and hear accomplished presenters.
It was wonderful to be welcomed so warmly and to meet up with some attendees we had met on previous occasions.
We were also fortunate to go to some great shows while in Vegas!
The next Conference is planned for Johannesberg SA in 2013.
Thank you Cushla for your assistance in demonstrating and company in Vegas - it was fun
Sherilyn Hall
See the gallery for photos from the conference
