Highland dancing is an athletic, high endurance, non-partner type of dance. It requires long hours of training and practice. You must have very high stamina and strong leg and arm muscles.
Not many people have ever heard of this type of dance. Highland dancing has many similarities with other types of dancing but it also has differences.
Highland dancers have specific arm positions that they must use while they dance unlike Irish dancers who keep their arms at their sides. Highland dancers hold their arms above their head in specific positions or on their hips with their hands in fists.
Another difference is that while ballet dancers jump on the ball of their feet and then land flat footed, Highland dancers jump and land on the ball of their foot.
This however is the only main difference between highland and ballet. Highland dancing is actually very similar to ballet because like most dancing it is based off of ballet. The 6 basic feet and arm position of highland are all the same as the ballet positions.
If you still don't understand what highland dance is you can go to this link and read under the section of Basic Description of Highland Dancing. It may help you to better understand or give you more information on highland dance.
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