Making up a dance

So I spent 2 days (as much as I could dedicate to it taking care of my 2 kids) making a three hand reel for my classes.

The reason behind is because we have work more on confidence and need at least a dance to dance in front of public.  So a three hand reel is perfect. I can dance with them and that will give them an extra confidence factor. Plus if they forget something they just follow. I also made it lovely to watch and easy to dance, the dance includes 32 bars of teapot, and two different kind of rounds, also sidesteps and 1,2,3 without looking too simple, I love it!!

this is the first dance I coreographed and I hope It looks nice, I can't wait to teach it!

The leap pictureee

Of course after seeing everyone has their leap picture I want one aswell.
Yesterday we did the try but... I guess I didn't hold it as much as I should for the "perfect picture".
Plus my husband was in bad mood because he had a headache. So he took some photos and looked me with his bad mood face so that's all haha.

Fairly decent photo

This one is closer so it has more flash.

Next time I'm taking the pictures in the daylight!

Let's go to the Eisteddfod!

Sooo, after talking with my students well, I'm not reaaaally their teacher, (but for this year I am muehehee). I asked them what did they thought of live performances.

First they were like "oh haha you are joking, I would go to the stage but only with my face covered up"

"I am no joking guys, interested or not?"

Well they were. This is nice because it is a competition but the category is foreign folk dance. So our competitors will probably do some other dance like Arab, Greek or whatever you can think of. No one will be comparing us to other Irish Dancers ;-). I still want them to do a good job though.

Maybe this is what they got in their mind?

The Eisteddfod is on October , so we have plenty of time to prepare ourselves! (plus it's a 4 minutes dance only)

PD: If you wanna know what on earth is a Eisteddfod go here.

Singers performing in the Eisteddfod!

My students finally got the jig!

So after some weeks of trying and trying my students finally learned the complete steps of our beginner light jig.

The timing made it harder, those fast little steps in the end were very hard to get. (they are even hard for me when there is slippery floor).

So after a "we are stuck" class I came home  with one thing in my mind: They are learning this dance next class. So I watched a video of myself and my teacher dancing the jig to have it super incorporated. Next I looked through all of my music to a more "slow" light jig. Seriously I only could find one song that is slightly more slow.

It seems that more determination payed well. Not only they learned the last step, they performed the full dance in time with no mistakes!


This is a caption of the video:

I'm the one on the left. YES I KNOW MY ARMS !!!

aw I didn't even have my ghillies <3

I need to take more actual pictures.

Note: the skirt of the picture doesn't fit me yet :-(

Dancing to not traditional music.

I love celtic music, I really do. And Irish folk music... I love it more.
But sometimes it's refreshing to watch Irish Dancing to other kind of music.
Here are some pop songs danced by irish dancers!

The Nashville Irish step Dancers dancing Black Eyed Peas (Hardshoe mainly)

Nora Pickett Irish Dance Academy dancing to Katy Perry, Fireworks. (SoftShoe)

Hardshoe to a Maroon 5 song (I don't know who is the dancer so I can't say anything about her!)



Soft Shoe Dance from NAIDF dancers Shakira, Waka Waka