McClintic School of Highland Dance

Alma Highland Festival 2026 is a wrap!
All of our dancers performed beautifully, fishing corrections and placing well.

🏆🌟HUGE congratulations to Fiona for earning a spot to compete at the national championship in July! She’s headed to Dallas y’all!! 🌟🙌

Rowan helped the First Presbyterian Church of Muskegon celebrate their roots during a special ‘Celebrating Scots’ service this Mother’s Day morning.

Great showing today by all our dancers at Spartan Tartan! So many highlights I’m probably missing something -
🏆 runner up trophy for Gianna in beginner and the biggest smile you’ll see on stage
🥈lots of 2nd places for Meara
🏅nice placings for Aela and Sera in novice
🙌 medals and first stamp for Amelia in her first ever competition
🏆 trophy for Esther and last novice stamp!
🏅 placings for Faustina in a big group and 6th in the lilt challenge
🏆 runner up trophy for Rowan and lots of improved corrections!
🏅lots of improvement for Bernie and Elena and nice placings

Tornado warnings, hail, and flood warnings couldn’t keep our dancers from competing in Madison this weekend! They’re tough 💪 and so are the moms that got them there!

🏆Regina topped off the adventure with the award for Most Promising Beginner dancer

Congrats to our dancers who competed at MWHDA over the weekend.
🌟 Gianna - placed in every dance and earned another stamp (and dodged the camera)
🌟Faustina - nice placings and a stamp
🌟Rowan - lots of corrections fixed and 3 placings despite some mistakes
🌟 Bernie - placings in a tough group

These dancers rocked out their first competition and championship of the year in Chicago. Lots of hard work over the winter paid off!

🌟 stamps for all pre-premier dancers
🌟 first ever competition for Meara and Regina
🏆pre-championship win for Bernie
🌟 first premier, pre-champ and championship for Rowan and she was 5th runner up in the champ
🌟placing for Fiona and Elena in every dance in the adult group

Wrapped the 2025 competition season at Celtic Classic with lovely dancing from everyone, trophies for Aela and Esther, and great placing for Elena in a tough adult group 🙌

Alma Indoor is a wrap! Lovely dancing from everyone and prizes all around including a first aggregate trophy for Aela!

Thanks so much to The Sparta Celtic Festival for another fantastic festival weekend!

Come see us today in Rogers Park!

Our "Murphy-Connolly Family Dance Pavilion" begins their 14 performance today with the McClintic School of Highland Dance at Noon today! They'll also be on our Alpine Auto Care Main Dance Stage at 3:05PM! Don't miss them!