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3 Things You've Never Been Told that Every Irish Dancer Needs to Hear
Just a few things I never wanted to hear while I was still dancing, but I wish someone had told me…
1. It’s not about how hard you work. This is the number one misconception I see on tumblr and in Irish dancing in general. We’re told from the time we start dancing that if we work our asses off we’ll win, and if we don’t we’ll lose. But I’m here to tell everyone out there that this isn’t true. In the end when you step on stage no judge is going to care if you spent 4 hours every day practicing and the girl you’re dancing with practiced once a week for an hour, if the girl you’re dancing with is better, the judge is going to place her higher. It’s an ugly truth, but it’s 100% accurate. In competition it’s not about how hard you work, it’s about how good you are. Often times in Irish dancing we train with the mindset that we want to work harder than the rest of our competition and then we’ll win, when in reality we should be training to be the best. Effective training is better than training in excess, and the reality of our world is that just because you practice more than anyone else, doesn’t mean you’ll be the best and win.
2. Your look doesn’t matter that much. I see dancers saying all the time “I probably would have recalled except my sock fell down,” or their shoe laces came untucked, or their tan wasn’t dark enough… I’m calling bs. If you are the better dancer, you will get the highest placement regardless of how you choose to present yourself. This past oireachtas I forgot to take my shorts off from under my dress for my softshoe round and that was my highest placing round. Your look is to make you feel better when you walk on stage, it’s not some almighty power that’s going to save you from not recalling or send you to the despairs of last place.
3. School is more important than Irish dancing. I know half of you are probably belligerently opposed to this assertion but it’s so true it hurts. We all love Irish dancing, but the fact of the matter is nearly 100% of us are going pro in something other than dance. And even if right now you think you may want to get your TC or be in a show one day, life changes. You figure out who you are as a person and discover other things you love in the world and if you’re blowing off school so you can win the worlds then you might not have the opportunity to pursue any new dreams that come your way. This time last year all I wanted in the world was to get my TC and have a dance school, and now I’m going to the Congo to help develop infrastructure and then coming back to the US to build rockets and satellites. Don’t give up everything for dance, it’s possible to keep that passion while still exploring your options and opportunities.
So in conclusion, this will probably be a pretty controversial post, but I don’t really care. This is what I realized over the past few months while I was on my way out, and I’ve decided to spread the knowledge whether the dance world is ready to hear it or not.
Happy Dancing,
KTVH
“Effective training is better than training in excess” - this post is on point.
KTVH crushing it as usual 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Posting this again because this is so important and I needed to remind myself of this
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What I say: I'm fine
What I mean: Jean Butler and Michael Flatley choreographed the original Riverdance TOGETHER and she did just as much dancing as him and even arguably more since she started in soft shoe and had to change into hard shoe while he was busy flapping his arms about like a hyperactive bird when they're on stage together they're dancing in unison or in some cases call and response where she does what he does backwards with an added TOE STAND (which in Irish dance I'm fairly certain has no support in the shoes because fuck it we damage our feet like CELTS) AND YET THE DAMN THING HAS BEEN PASSED DOWN THROUGH THE CULTURE AS MICHAEL FLATLEY'S RIVERDANCE FEATURING JEAN BUTLER WHEN PEOPLE REMEMBER HER AT ALL

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U8 Champion Felix, taught by Tanya Cunningham with the McLaughlin School of Irish Dance, Austria!
Incredible Rhythm and intricacy of choreography for someone this age (drop heels etc) 👏😮
#FFVideoFeature #IrishDance #FusionFighters #createnothate #irishfusion #FusionDanceFest
Someone’s lost their Worlds medal! Just left it at FeisPhotos stand. LOL.
Wait this is not LOL this is heart breaking! Can we spread this on Facebook to find the owner?
(с) FeisPhotos
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Neat package :)
I swear they're just photoshopping things now to play with our heads.
Elevation
DAMMN JACKIE

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“How do I improve my stamina?”
I’d agree that this is probably one of the hardest things to improve…
Firstly- because the types of exercises dancers tend to gravitate to get fitter are not specific to the goals they are looking to achieve…
And secondly- the way our energy systems work, it is nigh on impossible to maintain true 100% effort for the length necessary for a full dance.
The solution?
SPECIFIC exercises working SPECIFIC energy systems in a SPECIFIC time frame…
Get the gist?
The key to effective strength and conditioning programmes is specificity- ie doing stuff that is actually relevant to your sport!
This means scratching pointless gym sessions, saying goodbye to 100 sit ups a day, and not even contemplating running for longer than 20 minutes!
In order to get FIT for IRISH DANCING you need to work on doing an exercise such as squat jumps with MAXIMUM effort, for around 60 seconds, resting for a couple of minutes, then repeating giving 100% every time..
Ensuring you MAINTAIN that max effort no matter how tired your legs get, and how little height you get off the ground.. (keeping your technique sound of course)
And pressing on until you can do MORE in the allotted time.. Keeping that jump as high as you did at the beginning!
When your fitness improves…you will then be at a point where you can maintain (only slightly) sub max effort for the entirety of your dance :)
Give it a go and let me know how you get on..
(warning-you may vomit!)
Good luck!
#FitnessFormula #irishdance #stamina #knowledge #power #irishdancing
Final timetable for Oireachtas Rince na Cruinne, City West, Dublin, April 9-16th 2017
2nd place at the Raleigh feis a few weeks back. Trying hard to fit dance in where I can, in between working full time and studying and taking a full course load for my 2nd master’s degree. Someday I will get that top spot…. 🍀💚
Bless you for even having time to go to a feis, never mind dance in it.
I used to watch this when I was younger to see Ashley and Cian
Maybe I just have too many personal ties to this video but there are actual tears. LOOK AT ALL THE FUTURE WORLD CHAMPIONS 😭Brb mourning the loss of my youth, I feel so old. Bless you New England Region.
Layla Healy doing her set in school today. The Vanishing Lake.
Excuse me what
Let me just go cry in a corner now. Ok thanks.
Forever reblog
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I think this is my 4th time rebloging
YES ITS COMING BACK AROUND
at least my 15th time rebloggig it and I have no shame

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Just got home from an amazing weekend in St. Louis!! Loved getting to meet some incredible girls, and getting 2nd on day 1 and 1st on day 2 was just icing on the cake 🎉
These pictures are so gorgeous!
#danceportrait #dancingqueen
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ARE YOU TELLING ME THE SWOOP IS BACK?!!
Say it ain't so. We ran around the studio singing "Swooop there it is" for like 3 years. I don't need my TC doing that again.