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Being an Irish Dancer and working with Irish Dancers over the last 5 years has shown me how much we neglect our greatest tool, our feet. We have all suffered with blisters and sore feet on the surface and we do our best to prevent and manage these, however what is going on below the surface of...
Although Irish dancing is a subjective sport (meaning that every judge will look for different things), there are some basics for Irish dancing that we all try to perfect. Turnout, timing, correct posture, arch, stamina and the focus of today’s blog…crossover!
So we...
Here's our top 5 tips for making the most of your travel time:
- Get yourself into the right frame of mind for the dance class
- You can still do some stretching and mobility in the car
- Connect with the people in the car - talk about your feelings, goals, problems
- School work? Test each...
Having a strong and confident posture when dancing is something that every judge will look for. Not only is our posture one of the distinctive basics of competitive Irish dancing, it also is one of the ways we convey composure, self belief and poise to a judge.
As Irish dancing has become...
The World Championships is less than a month away?! How did that come around so quickly?
After two years of cancelled major championships across the globe and multiple organisations, competitions are slowly but surely heading back to some form of normal. For many dancers this is massively...
One of the fundamental elements of Irish dancing is turnout - it is something we hear a lot of our MWM dancers talk about. Turning out our feet is something our teachers will have taught us from our very first lesson, but that doesn’t mean that it is easy or comes naturally to a lot of...
Not everyone will be in Belfast or Killarney this upcoming week (us included!) but quite a lot of dancers who are at home during ‘Worlds Week’ will have no classes or very few classes as their teachers are over in Ireland.
Quite often dancers deal with this time at home...
Happy Valentine’s Day! Today is ‘the day of love’ and so who wouldn’t want to love their love for Irish dancing?
Irish Dancing is a funny sport - some weeks we love everything about Irish dancing, other weeks we can feel like we have lost our passion for...
