Dancers took to the stage yesterday in a prelude performance just days before the launch of this year’s Aberdeen International Youth Festival (AIYF) programme.
Get Scotland Dancing’s Four Seasons show took place at the Arts Centre and Theatre (ACT) Aberdeen venue.
Internationally acclaimed choreographers Royston Maldoom and Tamara McLorg attracted around 30 north-east youngsters to perform in the show.
Set to Vivadli’s Four Seasons score, the performance was hailed a success.
School children from Banchory, Peterhead and Aberdeen were among the performers.
Mr Maldoom, who has collaborated with Ms McLorg several times over a 40-year period, said the youngsters were “quite extraordinary”, adding the experience had been “absolutely amazing”.
He has been in Aberdeen for three weeks now in the run-up to the show.
Mr Maldoom said: “We have had a group of very committed young people to work with, very disciplined, very industrial, it’s extremely positive.
“I’d say they are one of the most disciplined, committed group of kids I can remember.”
Mr Maldoom – who has been working on and off in Scotland since the 1980s, added: “The kids that we have got already do highland dancing, they have been absolutely serious from the beginning.
“No problems with discipline or control.”
Throughout his career he has worked with children from Ethiopia, Peru and Northern Ireland, as well as working in South Africa, Zimbabwe, Lithuania, and in Croatia and Bosnia during the Balkan conflict.
The AIYF begins on Friday and will feature performances from dancers and musicians from across the globe.