What Are Your Goals?

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. My goal for the rest of this year is to get most or all of my dances into Novice.

2. My goal for the first half of 2012 is to get fully into Prizewinner.

3. My goal for the second half of 2012 is to qualify for Prelim, earning my solo dress. And go to Oireachtas, if at all possible.

4. My goals for 2013 are to qualify for Nationals by getting into Open Champs before May or have qualified at O's the previous year, and to go to at least one major outside the country - preferably Great Britains or British Nationals, if I don't qualify for Worlds. (The spring of this year is my last year of high school, and since I'm taking a gap year, it'll be a lot easier to do this.)

Beyond that, I'm not sure how things will work exactly, but my overarching long-term goal is to:

5. Win the Triple Crown of Irish dance - NANs, All-Irelands, and Worlds. As you've probably read in my journal post, I'm bound and determined to do this and nothing's going to stop me!

What are your goals? I can't wait to hear about them!

Tags: competition, dance, goals, majors, nationals, worlds

Replies to This Discussion

Permalink Reply by Deirdre F. on August 2, 2011 at 6:20am

1.Get all my dances into Novice/Prizewinner as fast as humanly possible!

2.Qualify for the 2013 NANs with my school\s 8 hand.

3.Eventually dance at Oireachtas solo.

4.Go to the All-Irelands and NANs solo.

5;Maybe Worlds one day???

6.Be the best Irish dancer I can be by always pushing myself to do better and keep going!

Permalink Reply by Cecelia on August 2, 2011 at 2:44pm

-that my knee injury heals swiftly!!

-that I continue to grow in my dancing in general.

-that I have a substantial role in my dancing troupe's Christmas show.

-that I can help design the costumes for the show.

Permalink Reply by Clare Jeffcock on August 2, 2011 at 2:49pm

I like those goals. :D

Permalink Reply by Thomas Beck on August 3, 2011 at 9:17am

1) Recall at Great Britains in October

2) Qualify for the world championships in November

3) Go to all-irelands and Worlds

Permalink Reply by Eva on August 3, 2011 at 9:24am

- to get my body to finally accept that I wont stop dancing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

- to get into intermediat

- to get myself a nice dress

- someday to get into open.....and maybe qualify for a big competition, just to take part

- TO ALWAYS ENJOY DANCING AS MUCH AS I DO NOW WITH ALL THOSE NICE PEOPLE WITH ME!!!!!!!!!!!

Permalink Reply by Natasha Ramsay on August 8, 2011 at 12:46am

Make it into Novice by the time I leave Hawaii. (2 years)
An original solo dress when I make it into Prizewinner. I have a steady income I feel at that point I have finally deserved it. i have been dancing long enough,
Qualify for and Oireachtas. (4 years)
Qualify for NANs. (6 years)
Qualify for Worlds. (8 years) Of course I want to be World Champion, but to have those 6 minutes I would be more than happy.

I know most of these are pretty achievable, I am dancing in Advanced Beginner so getting into Novice is just practicing hard and I have a feis in March. I would like to accomplish these goals sooner, but living in Hawaii doesn't allow one to feis often so I will sit in grades longer than some people because I have to wait until I can get to the mainland. I would be happy with making it to Prizewinner by the end of my two years here, but I will take Novice and if I make Prizewinner I will be more then ecstatic

Permalink Reply by Anastasia on August 8, 2011 at 5:28pm

1. Get my last 2 dances out of novice soon.

2. Get into prelims someday.

3. Compete at the oireachtas.

4. Never ever get too old to dance.

Permalink Reply by Clare Jeffcock on August 8, 2011 at 5:50pm

I love all those goals! This is such an amazing group of people here. :D 'You never know how far you'll have to run while chasing a dream. But you just have to keep running.'

That's what I hope you all will do. ;)

Permalink Reply by Rebecca on November 23, 2011 at 12:33am

1) Be in Prelims by July 2012 ( 4 wins to go and a TJ trophy)

2) Recall at an Oireachtas one day

3) Qualify for nationals

3) Get to Open Champs before I Quit

4) Keep dancing as long as possible.....Im thinking maybe quit when Im 28 lol, gives me 10 years!

Permalink Reply by Caroline S. on November 27, 2011 at 8:19pm

1. My goal for the next feis is to place in the top three for all my dances.

2. In the next year, I want to get all my dances into Prizewinner, preferably by the end of this summer.

3. This summer and next year my goal is to a.) get into prelim b.) qualify for Oireachtas

4. If I qualify for Oireachtas, my goal is to recall

4. By the end of high school (2014), I want to have placed in the top ten at my Oireachtas.

5. Get the person who's solo dress I want to buy to respond to my e-mails. (:

I started dancing at a young age, but I had a late start competing, so I'm kind of in a weird situation.

Permalink Reply by Bridget Hogan on November 29, 2011 at 7:20pm

1. To be a full PW by end of Spring 2012. ( I need my HP & S.J)

2. To go to Oireachtas next year as a Prelim and recall.( I couldn't go this year because I have only been dancing a year)

3. To go to Worlds in the next 2 yrs.

4. To be the best I can be, and be thankful to everyone who helps me to do that. ( I have awesome teachers, and the older Champions at my school are the best, they always help out the younger dancers to do better)

5. Make lots of new friends from all over the world.

6. To tell my Irish grandparents I get to go dance on a stage in Ireland.

I could go on and on all day, I love , breath, eat, sleep all things ID. So I have lots of goals, dreams and desires. I hope I get to accomplish them all. If not I want to keep enjoying every minute of doing what I get to do......DANCE!!!!!!!

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