Competitive Irish Dancing is a tough yet rewarding sport, but one of the biggest challenges Dancers face isn't just about technique or stamina - it’s about mindset. When you have friends in other dance schools who are in the same age group, it can add another layer of complexity to your Feis mindset...

Is Irish Dancing fun for you at the moment?

No, this isn’t a trick question to start this blog, we are serious! More and more at Move With Meg we are finding that at certain times of the Dancing year, the pressure becomes so intense that the fun is sucked out of Dancing - and this is something w...

As an Irish Dancer you spend countless hours perfecting your steps, drilling technique, and striving to achieve that next big goal. But have you ever stopped to think about how important your relationship with your Irish Dance teacher is in helping you achieve these goals?

Your teacher isn’t just t...

As a Senior or Older Dancer in an Irish Dancing class, you can often be seen as the role model for all of the younger Dancers. Even if you’re not the eldest Dancer in the class, most dance classes have a role model - someone who leads by example and is always there to help other people. 

This is...

The Christmas break is almost here and this is one of the few times during the Dancing year that we don’t have Feises…but that doesn’t mean we have to stop training completely. We definitely want you to have a break over Christmas but if you want to stay on top of your strength and mobility here are...

Irish Dancing is a tough sport, physically, mentally, and emotionally, which is why working on your resilience as an Irish Dancer is powerful. Resilience means the ability to bounce back from disappointments time and time again - it means being able to continue moving towards your goals with determi...

How many times a day do you find yourself:

• Being super hard on yourself 
• Telling yourself off inside your own mind
• Putting yourself down
• Talking to yourself using unkind language
• Overworking yourself
• Not taking enough rest each week 

If you find that you do this multiple times a day...

Irish dancers who have started their periods, know that there’s going to be 3 - 7 days during the month when things are a little different. However, understanding how our periods can impact our dancing can make it easier to manage all the physical and emotional changes we experience. This is nothing...

Are you looking to improve your toe height for Irish dancing? Recently we spent a lot of time talking to dancers, teachers, and parents in our Instagram DMs about what their dancing focus is going to be for the rest of 2024. 

One of the biggest answers we received back was toe height!

Why is...

Perfecting your ‘feis look’ can help any dancer feel more confident on stage. From the age of U11, Irish dancers can wear makeup to compete under the heavy stage lights. This aspect of Irish dancing can often come under scrutiny, but we believe that by learning to achieve the perfect feis makeup for...

The World Irish Dance Championships is the biggest event in the Irish dancing calendar! Each organisation holds their World Championships once a year in spectacular venues and dancers prepare all year round for only a few minutes on that stage. The World Irish Dance Championships are always filled w...

Irish dancers, are you taking a break this December? 

When it comes to the Irish dancing calendar, there isn’t a set ‘on season’ and ‘off season’. There are major competitions all year round, and small feises pretty much every weekend. That means that when there is the chance for rest, in Decemb...