You're biggest OOPS moments feis/show wise

I was spending some quality time here in Diddlyi trying to get unbored and thought about starting a thread of our embarrasing moments @ feis, show, etc...

Personally I always find myself 'oopsing' in everything that requires my dances infront of an audience.

The biggest one was when my irish group and I danced in TV...LIVE. Only 6 million people saw us, coast to coast and all. I was at the time under a lot of school pressure and my mind was not into dancing at the moment. So why not we danced a coreography that was created only two nights before. Of course my ignorance and mistakes were widely broadcasted. Plus! You could also see them in different angles!

Fortunately we were a success and still got to go with 1000 USD each as a price!

I've always found myself to be lucky as every mistake seemed to be unnoticed. I even got to get the 1st place in a feis after inventing a complete step of a jig!

So everyone is invited to comment and tell us about those moments you just want to forget...or laugh about!

Cheers!

▶ Reply to This

Replies to This Discussion

Permalink Reply by natasha bennett on July 23, 2007 at 4:17pm

the most embarrassing mistake ive made is in my 10th lesson Catherine the teacher said we were going to dance baby reel together and i started a totally different dance because i wasn't really concentrating but luckily nobody noticed and i just joined in again.[laughs].

▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by Lydie on July 24, 2007 at 12:56pm

Ho ho ho!! So....i forgot my whole hornpipe for the Oireachtas in Vienna in november 2006. I had to improvise my steps and I saw my school mates being doubled up with laugher....and my teacher's eyes wide open.
so funny but soooooo stressful too!!

▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by Sarah W. on August 1, 2007 at 1:21am

I walked around a feis the whole day with a peice of toilet paper stuck to my hardshoe. SO EMBARASSING.

▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by Kaleigh McClelland on August 3, 2007 at 7:14pm

During my slip jig I kicked another dancer in the butt.. lol.. and I totally forgot the rest of my Reel so I just stood there like a idiot trying to remember what it was.. LOL!!

▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by wallywow on August 6, 2007 at 2:54pm

ever try to dance a reel to a jig

▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by Emily Land on January 31, 2008 at 1:12pm

Turn that into a T-shirt and I bet you make a million at your next feis!

▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by Hannah on July 23, 2008 at 9:47pm

haha thats a good story I remember when I was in beginners level I danced the reel 2 light jig music was really interesting thing (;

▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by Cecile Greard on January 22, 2008 at 11:44pm

At a feis, the most embarrassing moment was when my cape started coming off my dress and it confused me so much I stopped in the middle of my dance.
At a gig, it's when my skirt started coming off (yes, I do have a lot of "wardrobe malfunctions", ah, ah!), fortunately I stopped dancing and went backstage before anybody could really see anything!

▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by Christina on January 23, 2008 at 3:05am

That's the one great thing about not dancer audiences watching: they don't know when you make a mistake! Even at a feis, if a judge doesn't know your step, you can just wing it and still do well.

I once had my soft shoe come untied during a parade and had to chase after my four-hand!

Luckily that's the worst of it for me.

▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by Brigid on January 27, 2008 at 11:16am

I slipped during my slip jig at a feis once. It was embarrassing because I started to cry while on stage! I was younger then. I hope that never happens again!

▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by Emily Land on January 31, 2008 at 1:17pm

So far I have had only one feis. There were 3 of us in the Adult Beginner Hornpipe. I thought I would be better off dancing alone because I feared hearing the other person's steps would throw me off. I started out ok (not great) and then made the mistake of making eye contact with someone I knew in the audience. Stopped Deat Flat. Counted 5,6,7 and took off again. Came in 3rd out of 3 (no surprise there). The judges comments were funny (timing off). She didn't look up most of the time so I'm guessing she never noticed anything but a interruption in the rhythm.

▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by iMaximus on January 31, 2008 at 11:17pm

At one feis......when I was dancing a slow jig.....I swear......that musician slowed down when I slowed down and speeded up when I speeded up. I got sick of it and stopped and grunted at the musician and the judge. The judge laughed and he made me do the whole dance anyway. I swear....it was the musician :-) (*pulling an angel-face*)