Tues. 5pm | 2021 Winter 2 | Class | Set Dance | Battering

intro

We will continue to work with Clare battering steps. We will work with Clare sets and incorporate battering steps while learning or refreshing on popular Clare set dances. The focus of the first 3 classes will be dancing at home. We will drill Mick and Aidan’s dance at home steps.

class 1

Class 1 – Dance At Home with Mick’s Banner Step

Intros
Warm up
Basics – 4
- Smooth traveling step
- Smooth advance & retire
- Smooth house
- Smooth dance at home
Step
- Mick’s Banner Step
- Clare Batter Step
- Right Lead (Lady), Left Lead (Gent)
Practice
- In place

We will be working towards dancing these steps in the plain set. We didn’t get there tonight, but you can check out where we are headed.

Set: Plain Set

class 2

Class 2 – Dance At Home with Mick’s $500 Step

5pm PST | 6pm MST | 7pm CST | 8pm EST on ZOOM Class | Battering: the second class we will cover Mick’s $500 Battering step. We will work on dancing at home with this step and review Mick’s Banner step and the Clare Battering step. Our goal is to incorporate 1 or all 3 steps into the Kilfenora Plain Set. This should get us primed for the Thursday night class where Phil Meehan will lead us in the Kilfenora set.

Warm up
Basics – 4
- Smooth traveling step
- Smooth advance & retire
- Smooth house
- Smooth dance at home
Step
- Mick’s $500 Step
- Right Lead (Lady)
- Left Lead (Gent)
- Shuffle vacation or heel toe heel drop
Practice
- In place
- Home
Set: Kilfenora Plain Set
Review
- Mick’s Banner Step
- Clare Battering Step

class 3

Class 3 – Dance At Home with Aidan’s Step

Warm up
Basics – 4
- Smooth traveling step
- Smooth advance & retire
- Smooth house
- Smooth dance at home
Step
- Aidan Step
- Right Lead (Lady)
- Left Lead (Gent)
Practice
- In place
- Home
Set: Caledonian