images from the highlands and islands of scotland
School Dance
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Dancers perform the 'Dance of the Small Schools'. This was the first Hebridean Dance composed for over a hundred years after an old woman was discovered who remembered this ancient art form.

This particular dance was composed to fight the closure of Eoligarry school on the island of Barra; the school stayed open.

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