Winter Term 2010 (Jan. 24-27)

Sunday Class:
Sean-nos Class:
Reviewed: jig vocab and Cavan step
Learned: Clare Battering step
Learned: The Caledonian set and incorporating the Clare Battering step into the movements.



Monday Class:
Sean-nos:
Reviewed: jig vocab and Aer Arann
Learned: Willie Keane #1,#2,#3,#4, Cavan step, Cape Breton Step, Cape Breton step with shuffle.
Advanced group: Strathspey step: traveling step, heel step, toe step

Here's a clip of Ronan dancing the Aer Arann step.


Percussive Choreography:
Learned: Mats Melins Nua-Nos choreography

Check out Kieran's website for some clips of Nua-nos.
Vist Kieran's site
Scroll down to Nua-Nos and click watch Video. There are only clips of the dance numbers so you wont be able to watch the whole piece, but it will give you an idea. The Cape Breton on is the third clip.
Dancer #1: Mats Melan
Dancer #2: Ronan Regan
Dancer #3: Kieran Jordan
Dancer #4: Maldon Meehan


Tuesday Class:
TBA

To all the classes:
I mentioned this in class last night, but I would like all of you to start working on creating a jig solo using the steps we have learned. I would love for some of you if not all of you to put together at least 32 bars of a jig solo. We will work on them in class next week. The solo can be mapped out or improvise. For those of you who are wanting more feedback and critique we will be working on that as well.

Winter Term 2010 (Jan. 17-19)

Sunday Class:
Reviewed: Jig vocab and the 'Jigs in January' step
Learned: Cavan step which is also very much like the Cape Breton basic step
Trading steps and vocab

Here is a clip of some dancers dancing the Cavan set.



Monday Class:
Sean-nos:
Reviewed: jig vocab, 'Jigs in January' and the 'Apples in Winter' step
Learned: two new jig steps. I will work on getting the step down on video. In the mean time here they are written out. I have used Melia's system of underlining movements that are on the left foot.

1. Rhythmic step in a circle or forward

Step Shuffle, Step Shuffle, Step Shuffle, step

2. Heel 1234

Step, heel, heel, step

step, heel, heel, step

Percussive Choreography:
Worked on creating jigs step in groups of 3-4 dancers.
Learned the Aer Aran step. This step is on the Dance Sean-nos DVD for those of you who have the DVD.

Tuesday Class:
Worked on jig vocab and the 'Jigs in January' step.

Winter Term 2010: Apples in Winter (Jan. 11)

Percussive Choreography:
In the Percussive Choreography class we worked with the tune Apples in Winter. Thanks to Joe Root, Felim Egan and Brian Hart for playing the tune. The goal was to create a step from that tune. We worked on creating something for the first 4 bars of the A part and then the next 4 bars. Then we worked on the B part and eventually put both parts together and danced to the tune.

Below are the steps that we created. Joe has generously recorded the tune at three different speeds. I will email the tunes to those of you who are in the class.

Winter Term 2010: Jig Vocab (Jan. 11-18)

The following is a clip of the jig vocab steps we covered in the sean-nós dance classes for the week of Jan. 11-18.

Winter Term 2010: Sean-nós Class (Jan. 11-18)

Here is a clip of the first step I created in class. It uses much of the vocab from the previous video.