Here are the overall results of the Adult World Championship:
Winner:
Morgan Bamford
2nd Place:
Marielle Lesperance
3rd Place:
Kate DeGood
4th Place:
Rebecca Thow
5th Place:
Laura Smith
6th Place:
Candice Walker
The 2013 Highland World Champions are:
Juvenile:
Kaylee Finnegan
Junior:
Maegan Sweeney
Adult:
Morgan Bamford
Full results will follow soon.
Final Grade 1 MSR
Piping Adjudicator: Anthony Sloane
Piping Adjudicator 2: John (Ian) Wood
Drumming Adjudicator: Gordon Craig
Ensemble Adjudicator: John MacInnes
Final Grade 1 Medley
Piping Adjudicator 1: John Moles
Piping Adjudicator 2: John Wilson
Drumming Adjudicator: Alexander Steele
Ensamble Adjudicator: Malcolm Mackenzie
Final Grade 1 Results
Benoni Highland Gathering 2013 – Results
Grade 2 Overall
Band :
1st Transvaal Scottish Grade 2
2nd Benoni MacTalla
3rd African Skye Grade 2
4th 1 Medical Battalion
5th MacChamberlain Richmond Avenue
Drum Corps :
1st Benoni MacTalla
2nd Transvaal Scottish Grade 2
3rd African Skye Grade 2
4th MacChamberlain Richmond Avenue
5th 1 Medical Battalion
Bass Section : Donald Graham
1st Transvaal Scottish Grade 2
2nd Benoni MacTalla
3rd 1 Medical Battalion
4th African Skye Grade 2
5th MacChamberlain Richmond Avenue
Grade 2 March, Strathspey & Reel
Band :
1st Benoni MacTalla
2nd Transvaal Scottish Grade 2
3rd African Skye Grade 2
4th MacChamberlain Richmond Avenue
5th 1 Medical Battalion
Ensemble : Ewen Gilchrist
1st Benoni MacTalla
2nd Transvaal Scottish Grade 2
3rd MacChamberlain Richmond Avenue
4th African Skye Grade 2
5th 1 Medical Battalion
Piping 1 : Roy Blevins
1st Benoni MacTalla
2nd Transvaal Scottish Grade 2
3rd 1 Medical Battalion
4th African Skye Grade 2
5th MacChamberlain Richmond Avenue
Piping 2 : Roger Davies
1st Benoni MacTalla
2nd Transvaal Scottish Grade 2
3rd African Skye Grade 2
4th 1 Medical Battalion
5th MacChamberlain Richmond Avenue
Drum Corps : Kevi Levin
1st Benoni MacTalla
2nd Transvaal Scottish Grade 2
3rd African Skye Grade 2
4th MacChamberlain Richmond Avenue
5th 1 Medical Battalion
Bass Section : Donald Graham
1st Transvaal Scottish Grade 2
2nd Benoni MacTalla
3rd 1 Medical Battalion
4th African Skye Grade 2
5th MacChamberlain Richmond Avenue
Grade 2 – Medley Selection
Band :
1st Transvaal Scottish Grade 2
2nd Benoni MacTalla
3rd 1 Medical Battalion
4th African Skye Grade 2
5th MacChamberlain Richmond Avenue
Ensemble : Roger Davies
1st Benoni MacTalla
2nd Transvaal Scottish Grade 2
3rd 1 Medical Battalion
4th African Skye Grade 2
5th MacChamberlain Richmond Avenue
Piping 1 : Roy Blevins
1st Transvaal Scottish Grade 2
2nd Benoni MacTalla
3rd 1 Medical Battalion
4th African Skye Grade 2
5th MacChamberlain Richmond Avenue
Piping 2 : David Harris
1st Transvaal Scottish Grade 2
2nd African Skye Grade 2
3rd 1 Medical Battalion
4th MacChamberlain Richmond Avenue
5th Benoni MacTalla
Drum Corps : Duncan Tee
1st Transvaal Scottish Grade 2
2nd Benoni MacTalla
3rd African Skye Grade 2
4th 1 Medical Battalion
5th MacChamberlain Richmond Avenue
Bass Section : Lynne van den Berg
1st Benoni MacTalla
2nd Transvaal Scottish Grade 2
3rd African Skye Grade 2
4th 1 Medical Battalion
5th MacChamberlain Richmond Avenue
Grade 3 Overall
Band :
1st Sandton Scottish
2nd Glen Allen
3rd SA Irish
4th African Skye Grade 3
Drum Corps :
1st Sandton Scottish
2nd SA Irish
3rd Glen Allen
4th African Skye Grade 3
Bass Section :
1st Sandton Scottish
2nd Glen Allen
3rd SA Irish
4th African Skye Grade 3
Grade 3 March, Strathspey & Reel
Band :
1st Sandton Scottish
2nd Glen Allen
3rd African Skye Grade 3
4th SA Irish
Ensemble : Ewen Gilchrist
1st Glen Allen
2nd African Skye Grade 3
3rd Sandton Scottish
4th SA Irish
Piping 1 : Roy Blevins
1st Sandton Scottish
2nd African Skye Grade 3
3rd Glen Allen
4th SA Irish
Piping 2 : Gordon Delaney
1st Sandton Scottish
2nd SA Irish
3rd African Skye Grade 3
4th Glen Allen
Drum Corps : Kevi Levin
1st Sandton Scottish
2nd SA Irish
3rd Glen Allen
4th African Skye Grade 3
Bass Section : Lynne van den Berg
1st Sandton Scottish
2nd Glen Allen
3rd SA Irish
4th African Skye Grade 3
Grade 3 Medley Selection
Band :
1st Sandton Scottish
2nd Glen Allen
3rd SA Irish
4th African Skye Grade 3
Ensemble : Adrian Haddow
1st Sandton Scottish
2nd Glen Allen
3rd SA Irish
4th African Skye Grade 3
Piping 1 : Steve Collins
2nd Glen Allen
1st Sandton Scottish
4th African Skye Grade 3
3rd SA Irish
Piping 2 : Rod Watters
1st Sandton Scottish
2nd Glen Allen
3rd SA Irish
4th African Skye Grade 3
Drum Corps : Steve Buchanan
1st Sandton Scottish
2nd SA Irish
3rd Glen Allen
4th African Skye Grade 3
Bass Section : Nicholas Schmidt
1st Sandton Scottish
2nd Glen Allen
3rd SA Irish
4th African Skye Grade 3
Grade 4 Overall
1st Transvaal Scottish Grade 4
2nd Benoni Grade 4
3rd Knysna
4th Lyttelton Manor
5th Pretoria Highlanders
Drum Corps :
1st Transvaal Scottish Grade 4
2nd Benoni Grade 4
3rd Lyttelton Manor
4th Knysna
5th Pretoria Highlanders
Bass Section : Chad Naude
1st Lyttelton Manor
2nd Benoni Grade 4
3rd Transvaal Scottish Grade 4
4th Pretoria Highlanders
5th Knysna
Grade 4 March Selection
Band :
1st St Benedict’s Grade 4
2nd Benoni Grade 4
3rd Lyttelton Manor
4th Transvaal Scottish Grade 4
5th Knysna
6th Pretoria Highlanders
7th African Skye Grade 4
8th De La Salle Combined
9th Kempton Park
Ensemble : Adrian Haddow
1st Transvaal Scottish Grade 4
2nd St Benedict’s Grade 4
3rd Lyttelton Manor
4th Benoni Grade 4
5th Pretoria Highlanders
6th Knysna
7th African Skye Grade 4
8th De La Salle Combined
9th Kempton Park
Piping 1 : Alex Hay
1st Lyttelton Manor
2nd St Benedict’s Grade 4
3rd Benoni Grade 4
4th Knysna
5th Transvaal Scottish Grade 4
6th Pretoria Highlanders
7th African Skye Grade 4
8th Kempton Park
9th De La Salle Combined
Piping 2 : Andy Dippenaar
1st Benoni Grade 4
2nd St Benedict’s Grade 4
3rd Knysna
4th Lyttelton Manor
5th Pretoria Highlanders
6th Kempton Park
7th Transvaal Scottish Grade 4
8th African Skye Grade 4
9th De La Salle Combined
Drum Corps : Steven St Clair-Hall
1st St Benedict’s Grade 4
2nd Transvaal Scottish Grade 4
3rd Benoni Grade 4
4th De La Salle Combined
5th Lyttelton Manor
6th Pretoria Highlanders
7rd Knysna
8th African Skye Grade 4
9th Kempton Park
Bass Section : Lucky Khumalo
1st Lyttelton Manor
2nd St Benedict’s Grade 4
3rd Transvaal Scottish Grade 4
4th Benoni Grade 4
5th De La Salle Combined
6th Knysna
7th Pretoria Highlanders
8th African Skye Grade 4
9th Kempton Park
Grade 4 March, Strathspey & Reel
1st Transvaal Scottish Grade 4
2nd Knysna
3rd Benoni Grade 4
4th Lyttelton Manor
5th Pretoria Highlanders
Ensemble : Thomas Fuller
1st Knysna
2nd Benoni Grade 4
3rd Transvaal Scottish Grade 4
4th Pretoria Highlanders
5th Lyttelton Manor
Piping 1 : Alasdair Watt
1st Knysna
2nd Transvaal Scottish Grade 4
3rd Benoni Grade 4
4th Lyttelton Manor
5th Pretoria Highlanders
Piping 2 : Rod Watters
1st Transvaal Scottish Grade 4
2nd Knysna
3rd Lyttelton Manor
4th Pretoria Highlanders
5th Benoni Grade 4
Drum Corps : Steve Buchanan
1st Transvaal Scottish Grade 4
2nd Benoni Grade 4
3rd Lyttelton Manor
4th Knysna
5th Pretoria Highlanders
Bass Section : Chad Naude
1st Benoni Grade 4
2nd Lyttelton Manor
3rd Transvaal Scottish Grade 4
4th Pretoria Highlanders
5th Knysna
Juvenile Overall
Band :
1st Benoni Juvenile
2nd St Benedict’s Juvenile
3rd Pretoria Boys Juvenile
4th Jeppe CBC Boksburg
5th KES
Drum Corps :
1st Pretoria Boys Juvenile
2nd Benoni Juvenile
3rd St Benedict’s Juvenile
4th Jeppe CBC Boksburg
5th KES
Bass Section :
1st St Benedict’s Juvenile
2nd Benoni Juvenile
3rd Pretoria Boys Juvenile
4th Jeppe CBC Boksburg
5th KES
Juvenile March, Strathspey & Reel
Band :
1st Benoni Juvenile
2nd Pretoria Boys Juvenile
3rd Jeppe CBC Boksburg
4th St Benedict’s Juvenile
5th KES
Ensemble : Ewen Gilchrist
1st Benoni Juvenile
2nd Pretoria Boys Juvenile
3rd Jeppe CBC Boksburg
4th St Benedict’s Juvenile
5th KES
Piping 1 : Sean Maher
1st Benoni Juvenile
2nd Jeppe CBC Boksburg
3rd St Benedict’s Juvenile
4th Pretoria Boys Juvenile
5th KES
Piping 2 : Graham Whitley
1st Benoni Juvenile
2nd Jeppe CBC Boksburg
3rd St Benedict’s Juvenile
4th Pretoria Boys Juvenile
5th KES
Drum Corps : Duncan Tee
1st Pretoria Boys Juvenile
2nd Benoni Juvenile
3rd St Benedict’s Juvenile
4th Jeppe CBC Boksburg
5th KES
Bass Section : Donald Graham
1st St Benedict’s Juvenile
2nd Benoni Juvenile
3rd Pretoria Boys Juvenile
4th Jeppe CBC Boksburg
5th KES
Juvenile Medley Selection
Band :
1st Benoni Juvenile
2nd St Benedict’s Juvenile
3rd Pretoria Boys Juvenile
4th Jeppe CBC Boksburg
5th KES
Ensemble : Robert du Toit
1st Benoni Juvenile
2nd St Benedict’s Juvenile
3rd Pretoria Boys Juvenile
4th Jeppe CBC Boksburg
5th KES
Piping 1 : David Harris
1st Benoni Juvenile
2nd St Benedict’s Juvenile
3rd Pretoria Boys Juvenile
4th Jeppe CBC Boksburg
5th KES
Piping 2 : Ian Houston
1st Benoni Juvenile
2nd Jeppe CBC Boksburg
3rd St Benedict’s Juvenile
4th Pretoria Boys Juvenile
5th KES
Drum Corps : Dave Jeffrey
1st St Benedict’s Juvenile
2nd Benoni Juvenile
3rd Pretoria Boys Juvenile
5th KES
2nd Jeppe CBC Boksburg
Bass Section : Lynne van den Berg
1st Benoni Juvenile
2nd St Benedict’s Juvenile
3rd Pretoria Boys Juvenile
4th KES
5th Jeppe CBC Boksburg
Novice Juvenile Overall
Band :
1st Pretoria Boys Novice Juvenile
2nd Benoni Novice Juvenile
3rd St Benedict’s Novice Juvenile
Drum Corps : Steve Buchanan
1st Benoni Novice Juvenile
2nd St Benedict’s Novice Juvenile
3rd Pretoria Boys Novice Juvenile
Bass Section : Chad Naude
1st Benoni Novice Juvenile
2nd St Benedict’s Novice Juvenile
3rd Pretoria Boys Novice Juvenile
Novice Juvenile March Selection
Band :
1st Pretoria Boys Novice Juvenile
2nd Benoni Novice Juvenile
3rd St Benedict’s Novice Juvenile
Ensemble : Adrian Haddow
1st Pretoria Boys Novice Juvenile
2nd St Benedict’s Novice Juvenile
3rd Benoni Novice Juvenile
Piping 1 : Alex Hay
1st Pretoria Boys Novice Juvenile
2nd Benoni Novice Juvenile
3rd St Benedict’s Novice Juvenile
Piping 2 : Andy Dippenaar
1st Pretoria Boys Novice Juvenile
2nd St Benedict’s Novice Juvenile
3rd Benoni Novice Juvenile
Drum Corps : Steven St Clair-Hall
1st Benoni Novice Juvenile
2nd Pretoria Boys Novice Juvenile
3rd St Benedict’s Novice Juvenile
Bass Section : Lucky Khumalo
1st Benoni Novice Juvenile
2nd Pretoria Boys Novice Juvenile
3rd St Benedict’s Novice Juvenile
Novice Juvenile March, Strathspey & Reel
Band :
1st Pretoria Boys Novice Juvenile
2nd Benoni Novice Juvenile
3rd St Benedict’s Novice Juvenile
Ensemble : Thomas Fuller
1st Pretoria Boys Novice Juvenile
2nd Benoni Novice Juvenile
3rd St Benedict’s Novice Juvenile
Piping 1 : Alasdair Watt
1st Benoni Novice Juvenile
2nd Pretoria Boys Novice Juvenile
3rd St Benedict’s Novice Juvenile
Piping 2 : Rod Watters
1st Pretoria Boys Novice Juvenile
2nd Benoni Novice Juvenile
3rd St Benedict’s Novice Juvenile
Drum Corps : Steve Buchanan
1st St Benedict’s Novice Juvenile
2nd Benoni Novice Juvenile
3rd Pretoria Boys Novice Juvenile
Bass Section : Chad Naude
1st Benoni Novice Juvenile
2nd St Benedict’s Novice Juvenile
3rd Pretoria Boys Novice Juvenile
Drum Majors – Line Abreast – Open
Adjudicators : Grant Bender, Kathryn Janson
1st Anthony Evans (Transvaal Scottish)
2nd Dominique Kerkhove (Lyttelton Manor)
3rd Deon Bester (Benoni MacTalla)
4th Catherine Beretta (SA Irish)
5th Matthew Cornish (KES)
Drum Majors – Line Abreast – Juvenile
Adjudicators : Grant Bender, Kathryn Janson
1st Dominique Kerkhove (Lyttelton Manor)
2nd Sibhale Thwala (KES)
3rd Matthew Cornish (KES)
4th T Mzyk (Benoni Novice Juvenile)
5th N Erasmus
6th Glen Thatcher (Pretoria Boys)
The annual Highland Dancing South African Championships is here. Saturday is the day, can you believe it?. It is absolutely incredible how quickly the 2013 Highland Dancing season has flown by.
When: Saturday, 27 July 2013
Where: Benoni High School, Benoni, Johannesburg
Time: 9:00am for the dancing and 10am for the Pipe Bands
This is the final competition of the highland dancing and pipe band season in South Africa for this year so it will undoubtably be the best and most challenging competition yet. Good Luck to all competitors, both dancers and bandsmen. And if you were wanting to come watch a competition this year, the is your last and best shot at seeing South Africa’s Scottish talent at its best.
See everyone there:)
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NOTE: this is, not by far, the end of the Scottish Communities calendar. The rest of the year will be packed with other events such dancers and pipe bands traveling overseas to compete in the World Championships in Scotland in August; The South African Tattoo happening in September at Monte Casino; pipe band solo competitions; The International Highland Dancing Conference taking place at Monte Casino in October; Choreography competitions and so much more. So please stay tuned to the blog and Facebook page for more details
As mentioned in a previous post, the O’Leary Studio was unable to take part in this years choreography competition held in Johannesburg at the Wits Theatre. Also in the same post, we mentioned that we’ll try to get the results, but unfortunately we haven’t come across them yet. However from all the posts, photos and videos that we have seen on Facebook, it seems we missed out on a fabulous evening filled with fantastic Highland Dancing Choreography.
From these photos taken by David Murray (click on David’s name and the link will send you to his Facebook 2012 Choreography photo album) we can see that the every studio made their best effort to create stunning costumes for their pieces. Each set of costumes shows us the choreography theme/concept and there are so many new and exciting ideas being expressed.
From this video of the Robinson Studio Choreography: The Hellbound Train – Hellbound Puppetteer (click the link and it will take you to the video on youtube) we can see a one of these wonderful concepts in action. The dance piece depicts a Puppeteer trying to control her Highland Dancing Puppets. The choreography was danced to live music to the tune Hellbound Train. The pipers are Ian and Johno from the Transvaal Scottish Pipe Band (this link will take you to their Facebook group) accompanied by two of their young pipers and on the drums is the inspirational Duncan Tee of the Sandton Scottish Pipe Band (this link takes you to their Facebook page). The dancing studio who performed and choreographed this amazing dance piece is the Robinson Studio (this link will take you to their Facebook page). The Puppeteer is the talented South African Champion (Highland and Irish) Genevieve Boyes who does an excellent acting and dancing performance. Her puppets include championship dancers such as South African Highland Champion Caitlin Boyes, Shendl Leahy, Kimberley Tee and more. Was this choreography inspired by So You Think You Can Dance, by choreographers such as Wade Robson or Tyce Diorio? We don’t know, but this piece certainly will inspire others and hopefully open peoples eyes to Highland Dancing and the exciting ways it can be danced. Congratulations on an excellent performance.
We would like to congratulate all the Studios who took part in the Choreography competition. The standard of Choreography in South Africa has been elevated and we look forward to seeing more in the future. Its so special to see South African Highland dancing reach new heights and with such inspiration and passion. I hope our dance form will start growing again.
The two photos above are taken from David Murray’s Facebook photo album.
The O’Leary Studio has now joined YouTube too. Our first video we uploaded was taken in 1995 at the Canadian Inter-Provincial Championships when our dancers Gillian O’Leary and Allison Conchie were joined by our friend Ashleigh Nesbitt from England to perform the choreography ‘By The Water’s Edge’. When the dance is started the now Allison Grace Conchie is seen on the left, the now Ashleigh Osborn is on the right and Gillian O’Leary is the small one, in the middle. Hopefully we’ll be adding a few more video’s in the future but today we’ll keep it just to one.
Coming to you live from the Irish South African Championships 2012 at the Beaulieu College in Kyalami. It’s results time! We will be giving you the results straight from the announcers mouth.
Girls 14 & Under:
1. Melissa Purdon – Robinson Studio
2. Caitlin Tribelhorn – MAD
3. Micheala Flood – Lucus/Raizenberg Studio
4. Veronica Louw – Theron STudio
5. Claire Sutherland – Robinson Studio
6. Catherine Goodwin
7. Kiara Horn
8. Robin White – Lucus/Razenberg
9. Tyla Amber Smeeth – Theron Studio
Girls 15 – 16 years:
1. Kelsey Bester – Bester Studio
2. Zoe Lightley – Dance Trax Studio
3. Siobhan Moore – MAD
4. Kate Hurley – Theron Studio
5. Nicola Moore – Theron Studio
6. Tarryn Lee Harris – Theron Studio
7. Tara Hammond
8. Aylish Dale
9. Kirsty Van Huysteen
10. Kaylin Kondis
Ladies 17 – 18 years:
1. Natasha Joseph – Robinson Studio
2. Andrea Van Der Kuil – Theron Studio
3. Jennifer Steel – Driver Studio
4. Melissa Smit – Theron Studio
5. Alise Ferriera – MAD
6. Tarryn Ballentine – Lucus/Razenberg
7. Robin Herselman -Theron
8. Aysha Essop
Ladies 19 & Over:
1. Genevieve Boyes – Robinson Studio
2. Courtney Pearce – MAD
3. Shari Thompson – Lucus/Razenberg
4. Louisa Wallace – Dance Trax Studio
5. Samantha Wood – Parker Studio
6. Melissa Wood – Parker Studio / Anouk Van Niekerk – Lucus Razenberg
8. Tanya Little – Lucus/Razenberg
9. Jessica Layman
10. Amy Stow – Parker Studio
Men All Ages:
1. Jason Du Plessis – Theron Studio
2. Bernard Van Der Kuil – Theron Studio
3. Neil Roberts – Theron Studio
4. Ruan De Witt – Lucus/Raizenberg
5. Gavin Collins – Lucus/Raizenberg
6. Jason Hardaker – Theron Studio
7. Ethan McLean – Theron Studio
8. Andrew Pfeifer
9. Nicolas
Well done to all dancers and to all studios. Congratulations to the Robinson Studio who took 3 of the 5 titles. Congratulations to the Theron Studio for the Jason Du Plesis’s win. And Congratulations to Elaine Bester for Kelsey Bester’s win. Good Luck to all dancers for the Qualifiers tomorrow:)
We apologize if there are mistakes with the names above, especially for Nicolas (sorry we don’t know his surname) and unknown studios – we unfortunately didn’t have a program. Sorry:( If you know any extra details e.g. how to spell a name or the studio of a dancer, just send us a comment at the bottom of the page and we’ll fix it as soon as possible.
Cowal Highland Gathering
World Highland Dancing Championships
Dunoon
25 August 2012
Juvenile:
1. Ellis Hayes
2. Abbie MacNeil
3. Maegan Sweeney
4. Lizzie Beattie
5. Abby-Jane Taylor
6. Kirsten Stewart
Junior:
1. Anthea Bindy
2. Bevin Wiley
3. Ruthanne Sweeney
4. Madison Chrystie
5. Candice Walker
6. Jean Stein
Adult:
1. Marielle Lesperance
2. Morgan Bamford
3. Chantal Watt
4. Rebecca Thow
5. Laura Smith
6. Robyn Hart-Winks