Just an Irish Dancer

It’s this obscure artistic sport that not many people understand, yet it’s performed world wide. We glue socks to our fake tanned orange legs. We wear curly wigs and tons of makeup. Our colourful $3,000 costumes are adorned with hundreds of dollars worth of genuine swarovski crystals. We have black leather shoes that only slightly mimic ballet and tap shoes, not to mention they’re at least two sizes too small. We suffer through blisters and breaking in those new shoes. We have teachers who lovingly scream at us to maneuver our legs and feet in crazy ways. We follow the trends and see what Gavin or Celtic Star has come up with this time. We have friends that live in other countries that we only ever see at majors. We spend more time with our dance families than our actual family. We work for hours and hours every week for months in advance to dance for just a few minutes on stage.

There is no money to be won, no outside recognition from the “real world”. But it’s the love of our dance that drives us to compete, to perfect our steps, to give our time energy and money in hopes of becoming the best we can be.

Even through all the ups and downs - the injuries, the losses, the heartbreaks - there’s nothing I’d rather be doing.

especially because bc im indian and indian people dance like this as well

 Don’t Stop Believing 

Bohemian Rhapsody 

Living On A Prayer 

Come On Eileen 

Sweet Caroline 

Shot Through the Heart 

Pour Some Sugar on Me 

Sweet Home Alabama 

Under Pressure 

Shook Me All Night Long 

Ice Ice Baby 

Cotton Eyed Joe

500 Miles

Wonderwall 

Buddy Holly 

A Thousand Miles 

Teenage Dirtbag 

Red Solo Cup 

Mr Brightside 

Never Gonna Give You Up 

Eye of the Tiger 

Chicken Fried 

American Pie 

I Love Rock and Roll 

Dancing Queen 

Don’t You Want Me

We Will Rock You 

The Time Warp 

Hey Jude 

Piano Man

This Is How We Do It

Drops of Jupiter 

Hey Soul Sister

In The End 

All The Small Things 

Stacy’s Mom 

Kryptonite 

All Star 

You Found Me

Bad Day 

Bring Me To Life 

Dance, Dance

Sugar We’re Going Down 

I Write Sins Not Tragedies 

All The Small Things 

Ocean Avenue 

Dirty Little Secret 

Margaritaville 

Sk8er Boi

Brown Eyed Girl 

Life Is A Highway 

Some Nights 

Little Lion Man 

Breakeven

Hey There Delilah 

Viva La Vida

Use Somebody 

Carry On My Wayward Son 

Take On Me

1985 

Iris 

I’m Awesome 

Seven Nation Army 

September 

Since U Been Gone

Skinny Love 

Everybody (Backstreet’s Back)

Bye Bye Bye 

Say It Ain’t So 

Somewhere Only We Know 

I’m Yours 

Last Resort 

My Girl 

Tiny Dancer 

Roxanne

Shout 

I’m a Believer 

Soul Man

Feel Good Inc 

Check Yes Juliet

Walking On Sunshine 

MMM Bop

Pumped up Kicks 

Hooked On A Feeling 

It’s A Beautiful Day

Summer Girls 

Before He Cheats 

Happy Together

You Make My Dreams Come True

Build Me Up Buttercup

Escape (The Pina Colada Song)

DONTTRUSTME

Shake It (Metro Station)

Juke Box Hero

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