May Hughes’s passion for dance started when she was only four years old and her commitment to her pupils is as strong today as it ever was.
Inverclyde’s ‘grand dame’ of dance has become an adopted mum to all her students throughout the years and is still working at the age of 86.
May attended Greenock High School and when she left she started working in the Co-op in Roxburgh Street and kept on dancing.
She was a toe-tapping ’tiller girl’ when she as was only 16 and part of the Martinets troupe performing for weeks at a time at the Empire in Greenock and in theatres in Glasgow. She also featured briefly in a showbiz dance group called the Moxan Dance Troupe.
May has been organising the West of Scotland Championships in Battery Park and Gourock Highland Games competitions and been a member of the Royal Scottish Official Board of Highland Dancing for 30 years.
Such sad news to wake up to this morning 
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This lady was the only person I knew who could put the fear of god in to you for not pointing your toes then showering you with praises all during the same 2min dance. The best memories with the best dancing buddies were created because of her, most of which I still call my friends to this day.
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Being a dancer for the best part of 17 years, god knows how many pairs of pumps, sets of kilts and cans of glitter spray where used, but all I know is it was an ABSOLUTE BLAST!
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I wonder how long it will take before my dancing buddies can finish our song in the comments, I will start… leave the next line in the comment 
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One last time… 
“We are the May Hughes Girls, Claire Kane said via facebook post
