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For a lot of Irish dancers, Irish dancing is a competitive sport. It is something we spend a lot of time doing, working on, thinking about, worrying about, feeling excited about…there's a lot of emotions that come with Irish dancing! These emotions can affect more than just feises,...
‘How do I improve my stamina?’ We hear this all the time! It seems like every dancer wants to know the secret. Here’s the thing, there’s no big mystery. No big secret. Just these simple points…
Firstly, it is not all about cardio fitness. It’s about...
You may have seen other dancers with a long, colourful cylindrical item sticking out of their dance bags and wondered what it is? Or maybe your Mum has bought you one but you've no idea what to do with it or understand how it can help?
That item is a foam roller and it is used by dancers...
It’s back to school time here in the UK and that means back to dancing for a lot of us. Whilst we still have dance class in the summer holidays, we tend to relax a bit more, spend more time with our friends and family and go on holidays. Our bodies and minds need this break in order to...
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...
