14-year-old heads to nationals for Scottish Highland dancing
NORTH AUGUSTA, S.C. (WRDW/WAGT) - A local teen is going all the way to nationals for something you might never have heard of.
Brynn Brown, 14, is a Scottish Highland dancer and she’s traveling from North Augusta to Boston this summer to compete. It’s a tradition ed down through generations.
“I grew up doing Highland dancing. When I had Brynn, my dance teacher said, why don’t you bring her to me, and we’ll see how she does? She took to it like a fish and water,” said Michelle Brown, Brynn’s mother.
It all started for Brynn when she was six years old, and ever since then, she’s loved dancing and she says her favorite part is... “Competing. It’s like, I love the adrenaline rush when you go on stage,” she said.
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It takes a lot of hard work and dedication.
Michelle: “What we found out is that there’s only one teacher in the entire state. There was only one dancer in the entire state, and that was Brynn. Once she took us on, it took it takes us about an hour and a half each way to drive to Irmo. We do it twice a week, and we’ve been doing that for the last eight years.”
But it has paid off, and she’s hoping to add even more awards to these shelves.
Brynn: “The goal is to go to regionals, which is everybody in your region and within your age group. You have to make the top three to go to something called Usir, which is nationals for everybody. Then you compete against the top three from each region.”
And she did that and more, qualifying for nationals for the second year in a row.
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“My wonderful dance teacher, I go to her twice a week for an hour and a half, because she’s so far. Then I Zoom with her once a week. So three with her, and then I’d normally practice on my own here,” she said.
Practicing multiple times a week, even in her very own dance studio in her basement
“There’s always something to work on in Highland dance, and it’s just always something to improve on to get better,” Bryn said.
Doing what she loves while also honoring her family who are her biggest ers.
Michelle said, “My mom, who is from Paisley, ed away in December, and we’re heading over to Scotland to Paisley to spread her ashes at the Bonnie Wee Well and up the glitter for braze. We’re hoping that Britain will dance at a couple of competitions in her honor.”
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