Pat Ballantyne (Scotland)
Pat Ballantyne has taught traditional dance in schools, at fèisean, at various community workshops, and teaches step dance for Scottish Culture and Traditions in Aberdeen, Scotland. She has performed in France, Belguim, Holland, Romania and Canada. Between 2002 and 2004, she created a ground-breaking website for Historic Collections at the University of Aberdeen on the music and dance of James Scott Skinner. An important component involved recreating social and highland dances as taught over one hundred years ago by Skinner and other dancing masters. She takes dance and music into Scottish schools to introduce children to dance heritage and is currently researching step dance in and Cape Breton.
