It’s with profound disappointment that I share the information of the passing in June 2020 of our long-time teacher, mentor and pal Elheran Francis. Elheran had been the first teacher at Piedmont Highland Dance for over 20 years. A delicate and affected person instructor, he was additionally a tireless promoter of the Highland Arts in Piedmont.
Elheran had an enormous data of Scottish Highland Dance and Celtic tradition as effectively. Some attention-grabbing tidbit was all the time at hand! In his youthful days Elheran competed in Highland Dance, so though he had that perspective and experience it was all the time imparted placing the actual wants of every scholar first. Elheran additionally had large expertise with health on the whole and bodily remedy specifically. He all the time labored onerous to verify every dancer knew how you can look after themselves with an finish to stopping damage. When wanted, he often had bodily remedy options to get dancers began on the street to restoration! Elheran was very beneficiant; all the time giving of his time, expertise, empathy…and humour!
The dance studio won’t be the identical with out Elheran, however I really feel so privileged to have realized from him how you can dance, how you can educate and how you can be a sort human being. Allow us to honor his reminiscence by sharing these issues with others and bringing his love of Scottish dance and tradition to new generations in our studio and past.
To honor his reminiscence, among the dancers acquired collectively to do a memorial Fling for Elheran within the weeks after his passing:
