MEDIA RELEASE Monday 13 July 09
CAIRNS DANCERS JUMP FOR JOY AT REPRESENTING HOME CITY ON WORLD STAGE
From left: Cairns Highland Dancers, Catherine Wilson and Belinda Worthy – jumping for joy to represent Cairns on the world stage
Cairns Highland dance teacher, Catherine Wilson left Australia today on a dancing tour of the world. First stop; Dubai – where she will meet up with 23 fellow Australian Dancers, Team Manager and Dance Director of the OzSoct Australia Highland Dancing Team before continuing their journey to Basel in Switzerland to perform at the Basel International Tattoo for an 11 performance season.
Following the Basel Season, some of the OzScot dancers will join the rest of the 45 strong OzScot team that leaves Australia on Thursday 30th July in Edinburgh Scotland for the month of August to perform in the three week season of the Edinburgh Military Tattoo.
In Scotland, Cairns will be represened by Catherine Wilson and Belinda Worthy when the OzScot Australia Team joins the Highland Springs Dancers on the esplanade of Edinburgh Castle. In addition to performance in the Tattoo for six nights per week for three weeks the OzScot Australian Team will be performing in Edinburgh which will include the Edinburgh Festival Parade, and Mini Tattoos in Glasgow, Linlithgow, Dumfries House Ayrshire and Jedburgh.
Principal of Cairns Scottish and Irish Dance Academy, Mrs Jacqueline Wilson is also going to be involved in the Highland Dancing scene in Scotland in 2009.
Mrs Wilson is a judge qualified to judge for the Scottish Official Board of Highland Dancing and will be judging at the Isle of Bute Championships at Rothesay and also the Burnam Highland Games in Perthshire. As well as judging, Jacqueline and her husband Kevin will be attending the World Highland Dancing Championships at Cowel.
It is just a wonderful opportunity for Far North Queensland Highland Dancers to gain the experience to dance on an international stage and it is more than likely that Cairns Dancers will join the OzScot Australia Team in Sydney with the Tattoo comes to Australia in February in 2010.
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