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The Fairy Dance at the Loft Gallery
The Fairy Dance at the Loft Gallery From the 28th of August until the 28th of September 2021, the Loft Gallery in St. Maragaret’s Hope, Orkney, will be showing artwork[…]
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Dance of the big fairy – outtake
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The Fairy Dance – timelapse animation
The Fairy Dance is a forthcoming animation by Orcadian artist Martin Laird inspired by a folk tale about a fiddle player who entertains “the peerie folk”. These are music-loving goblin-like[…]
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The Fairy Dance
The Fairy Dance is an animated adaptation of an old Orcadian folk tale about “the peerie (or peedie) folk”, also knowns as trows or fairies. These are tricksy, often malevolent creatures similar to the faeries found in legends throughout European folklore.
In Orkney trows were thought to live in grassy mounds (actually Neolithic chambered cairns such as Maeshowe), and they love music!
The Fairy Dance has been created with equipment purchased using a Visual Artist and Craft Maker Award. Thanks to the VACMA panel, Orkney Islands Council, Creative Scotland and Highlands and Islands Enterprise for making it possible.
![Fiddler meeting a Trow on Albert Street, Kirkwall.](https://thefairydance.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/trow-meet.jpg)
![Fiddler walking with a trow past a standing stone which watches them with it's single eye.](https://thefairydance.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/standing-stone.jpg)
![The Fairy Dance - a baby kidnapped by Trows, known as a changeling](https://thefairydance.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/changeling-baby-fairy-dance.jpg)