Folk dancing
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Ceilidh Society of Southland
Record Group
Identifier: A0518
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1971 - 2013
Royal Scottish Country Dance Society, New Zealand Branch, Southland Region - St Andrew's Club
Record Group
Identifier: A0647
Overview
Processing Note: This collection is awaiting arrangement and description. Please contact Archives staff for details of collection content.
Collection includes Minutes, photographs, scrapbook, and 50th Jubilee material.
Collection includes Minutes, photographs, scrapbook, and 50th Jubilee material.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1957 - 2007
WILSON, Winifred May interviewed by Edith Ruddenklau
Record Group — Box 45
Identifier: H0500
Overview
In this interview, May talks about how she first got involved with Highland Dancing at the age of 10 through dancing with the Mataura Kilties Pipe Band. She was taught by Stella Glennie. May moved to Dunedin to be taught by William Kilgour. She took part in a dance tour of Central Otago. In the early 1920s, when men dominated the Highland dancing world, May won the first combined men’s and women’s over-18 championship. In 1924 she travelled to Scotland where she won both the Highland fling and...
Dates:
1994
