Thursday 7 April 2016

Ireland.

The traditional dance in Ireland would be Irish Dancing. This dance can be divided into performance dances and is also used for social dances. For this dance they have to have shoes and a costume. They wear two types of shoes. For the light dances they wear soft shoes which are also known as pumps. For the heavy dances they wear hard shoes which are similar to tap shoes except the heels and the tips are made of metal and the hard shoes are made of fiberglass. There are different types of dances in the hard and shoes. There are a reel, slip jig, treble jig, single jig and hornpipe and for the soft shoes they have a reel and a slip jig.
Irish Dancing got more popular in 1994 when the Riverdance came out. This dance is known for their fast leg and foot movment. This dance have competitions called a feis. Feis means festival in Irish. The competitions are divided into different age groups. They score the dancers by their style, technique and the rhythm to the dancing with the hard shoes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_dance
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