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Late Starters with Big Dreams

Some of us aren't lucky enough to have found Irish dancing  when we were young. Yet we still found our way into dancing, and have started competing. Late starters can have big dreams, and they have the ability to live them.

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Latest Activity: Mar 15

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What Are Your Goals? 12 Replies

I think the title pretty much explains it all: what are your Irish dancing-related goals? Long-term, short-term, and anything in between. :) Feel free to share as much as you'd like! Here's mine: 1.…Continue

Tags: dance, competition, majors, nationals, worlds

Started by Clare Jeffcock. Last reply by Haley Holmquist Jun 26, 2012.

Feis Results 14 Replies

Post your feis results here so we can all cheer each other on! :) At my latest (and first) feis, I got second in Reel and Light Jig, second in Reel Trophy, third in Art, and no place in Slip Jig. Continue

Started by Clare Jeffcock. Last reply by Deirdre F. Jan 28, 2012.

What are my Goals???

1. To be a full PW by the end of Spring 2012. (I need 2 more dances, HP & Sl.Jig)2. To be a Prelim for Oireachtas next year.( I haven't been dancing long enough to qualify to go to the "O" this…Continue

Started by Bridget Hogan Nov 29, 2011.

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Comment by Susanna Moore on September 16, 2012 at 4:34am
Hi Anastasia! We have competed against eachother before :). I looked back at my feis results and found your name on several of my events...and we have friends in common on fb! My teacher hasn't really specified what it would take for me to go to Oireachtas, but she was waiting to see how I did. I had a really strong feis today, so hopefully it was enough!
Comment by Anastasia on August 26, 2012 at 9:45pm

Susanna, your name sounds familiar, I think I've probably competed against you before. I'm from Arkansas and I compete in the same age group, soft shoe in opw and hard shoe in novice.

Good luck at your feis! What results do you need to go to oireachtas?

Comment by Susanna Moore on August 15, 2012 at 5:27am
Hey ya'll! I'm a late starter from Oklahoma dancing in the 16 & overs. I'm 25 and I've been Irish dancing for 5 years, 3 of them competitively. My goal is to get all of my dances in Prizewinner and eventually dance in Prelim. I'm also hoping to be asked to go to Oireachtas. Whether or not I go will be based on my next feis results...finger crossed and working really hard over here!
Comment by Gaueko on August 8, 2012 at 12:40pm

I'm 27 and start now with Irish Dance... more or less, because I tried two years ago but left it in "pause" because my nearest school is more or less 800kms far...
But now I return to Irish Dance and my goals are:
1- Try hard, work myself (and with the advices of my teacher by internet) and work enough hours a week.

2- Try to go the next year to the city where I have my Irish Dance classes, work hard and compete!

3- My big goal is, someday in the future, teach Irish Dance here where I'm from :)
I'm sure a lot of people will like it! Here we dance our dances and somethings are quite similar!

Comment by Haley Holmquist on March 24, 2012 at 3:14pm

My goals are to move out of novice for hornpipe(If I'm all prizewinner I might get to go to oireachtas. Last time my teacher let people that were all pw and up go) and to get a first in each pw dance by the end of 2012. Good Luck to all with their goals!!!!!

Comment by Jacque (Happy Feet) on December 26, 2011 at 8:59am

I didn't start dance terribly late...I started when I was in 4th grade, but I quit in 5th grade, was off for about 4 years, and started back up last month, my 10th grade year in high school. I hope that maybe by the time I graduate high school I can make it international for some feis :)))

Comment by Deirdre F. on November 18, 2011 at 5:28am
Awh!! I'll try not to, but SJ is not my best dance. Lol
Comment by Clare Jeffcock on November 18, 2011 at 4:17am

Forgot my slip jig mid-second-step and ran off the stage in tears!

Comment by Deirdre F. on November 18, 2011 at 4:16am
Thanks! Wait, what did you do at your first feis?
Comment by Clare Jeffcock on November 18, 2011 at 3:45am

Awesome, congrats! As long as you don't do what I did at my first feis, you'll be fine. :)

 

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I qualified for prelim!

Posted by Amanda on May 5, 2013 at 9:30pm — 3 Comments

Follow Worlds live!

Posted by Amanda on March 24, 2013 at 6:48pm

Boston Dance store and Irish academy

Posted by Daniel Franzini on March 4, 2013 at 7:06pm

Self tanning for a feis? HELP

Posted by Amanda on February 20, 2013 at 12:56am — 5 Comments

DANCE FLOORS! Any suggestions?

Posted by Amanda on January 13, 2013 at 5:40pm — 8 Comments

Want to dance!

Posted by Lissie on January 3, 2013 at 8:33pm — 4 Comments

just a joke)

Posted by Anna Eletskaya on November 28, 2012 at 8:36am — 1 Comment

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