Current Classes – Sean-nós & Set Dance with Maldon

overview

Mondays & Wednesdays 7:30 AM PST
Zoomlink: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84235671611?pwd=XQ3CucBEyzT016HK0O4Ts7zKNGiJ2p.1

Dancing to different instruments: Fiddle, Pipes, Accordion, Concertina, Flute,

Week by Week

	Mondays	Wednesdays
Week 1	3	5

Week 2	10	12

Week 3	17	19

Week 4	24	26

Week 5	31

Keep Her Lit/Endurance

June Class Page – Keep Her Lit
July Class Page – Dancing the tune & July Music Recordings

week 1

Week 1

Monday: Dancing the Tune: Listening to the Musician

Throughout this month, we’re using video recordings of musicians and different instruments to explore how the musician can guide our dancing.

Watch how each musician creates the music. For example:

Follow the movement of the fiddle bow and fingers, and translate those movements and sounds into your dancing.
Watch the piper’s hands on the regulators and chanter, and listen to what the drones add.
Notice the rhythm, phrasing, ornamentation, lift, and energy each instrument offers.

I’ve created a YouTube playlist for the whole month. If you find a video that inspires you, please add it to the playlist.

Playlists

Youtube Video Playlist
- If you find videos that you like you can add them here.
Fiddle – play of bow and fingers
- Laura & Nathon
- Martin Hayes
Pipes – Regulators – watch hands, chanter – Fingers, drones
- Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh & Mick O’Brien
Panio Accordion
- Jimmy Keane – Bohola
Button Box
- Bobby Gardiner & Johnny McDonagh
Concertina
- Caitlin Nic Gabhann
Flute
- Catherine McEvoy
- Harry Bradley

Homework:

For Wednesday:
Find a video featuring a tune, musician, or instrument that inspires you to dance—something you would like to explore—and bring it to class on Wednesday.
We’ll work individually with our own selections and then come together as a group to explore what each tune, musician, and instrument brings to our dancing.

Edith
- Niall & Cillian Vallely
  - 1^st of August: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACT5ZWsFiEw&list=RDACT5ZWsFiEw&start_radio=1
    “Muireann’s Jig” Cillian & Niall Vallely:
  - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LheAUk6E9s&list=RD0LheAUk6E9s&start_radio=1
- Cormac Begley
  - To War – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4sf4RpVsYw&list=RDt4sf4RpVsYw&start_radio=1
- Nathan Gourley and Laura Fedderson:
Katrina
- Martin, Roberts, Compton, & Jordan
  - Tie the Ribbon / Lafferty’s
- The Glen of Aherlow (or Lafferty’s) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JI_4LjWjAw8

Wednesday:

week 2

Week 2

Monday:

Homework:

Level 1: 70% slower
Level 2: 80% slower
Level 3: 90% slower
Level 4: 100%

Wednesday:

Homework:

Level 1: 70% slower
Level 2: 80% slower
Level 3: 90% slower
Level 4: 100%

week 3

Week 3

Monday:

Homework:

Level 1: 70% slower
Level 2: 80% slower
Level 3: 90% slower
Level 4: 100%

Wednesday:

Homework:

Level 1: 70% slower
Level 2: 80% slower
Level 3: 90% slower
Level 4: 100%

week 4

Week 4

Monday:

Homework:

Level 1: 70% slower
Level 2: 80% slower
Level 3: 90% slower
Level 4: 100%

Wednesday:

Homework:

Level 1: 70% slower
Level 2: 80% slower
Level 3: 90% slower
Level 4: 100%

week 5

Week 5

Monday:

Homework:

Level 1: 70% slower
Level 2: 80% slower
Level 3: 90% slower
Level 4: 100%

playlist

Playlists

Youtube Video Playlist
- If you find videos that you like you can add them here.
Fiddle – play of bow and fingers
- Laura & Nathon
- Martin Hayes
Pipes – Regulators – watch hands, chanter – Fingers, drones
- Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh & Mick O’Brien
Panio Accordion
- Jimmy Keane – Bohola
Button Box
- Bobby Gardiner & Johnny McDonagh
Concertina
- Caitlin Nic Gabhann
Flute
- Catherine McEvoy
- Harry Bradley

keep her lit

Keep Her Lit:

Classes, Current Classes, Irish Sean-nós Dance

overview

Mondays & Wednesdays 7:30 AM PST
Zoomlink: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84235671611?pwd=XQ3CucBEyzT016HK0O4Ts7zKNGiJ2p.1

Week by Week

	Mondays	Wednesdays
Week 1	29	1
	NO CLASS	NO CLASS
Week 2	6	8
	Leitrim Thrush	Leitrim Thrush
Week 3	13	15
	Aarons Key	The Star
Week 4	20	22
	Tolka Polka	NO CLASS
Week 5	27	29
	Tolka Polka Review & Keep Her Lit	Review & Keep Her Lit

Keep Her Lit/Endurance

June Material – Keep Her Lit
- Maldon’s Jig Steps
- Reels – Advance & Retire Mick/Willie, Clare 1,2,3 & Mick off beat
- Teampall an Ghleanntánn
- Waltz Steps

July Music Recordings – These are rough recordings for learning and practicing only. These are from the Colúr band (Autumn, Ben and Maldon).
- Teampall an Ghleanntánn/Keegan’s Waltz
- Leitrim Thrush/Aaron’s Key/Star
- Tolka Polka/The Hop Down

week 2

Week 2

Monday: Leitrim Thursh (single reel)

Create a step for each part of the tune
- A Part Step
- B Part Step

Homework:

Level 1: 70% slower
Level 2: 80% slower
Level 3: 90% slower
Level 4: 100%

Wednesday: Leitrim Thursh (single reel)

Homework:

Level 1: 70% slower
Level 2: 80% slower
Level 3: 90% slower
Level 4: 100%

Ideas for the tune

A-part – beginning – same but different – ‘hick up step”, ‘kick up step”, “drum”, “slide”
B-Part – Clare 1 / Clare 2 / Clare 1 / Mick Dance at home off beats (or improvising around the b part, but always going back to “Mick’s step’ for the last 2 bars).

Variations, Ornamentations, Improvisations

Play with variations, adding ornamentions into your steps and improvising your steps. You can map these out or keep it lose and in your toolbox to bring out while dancing the tune.

Level 1: Lock down transitions from the A and B parts
Level 2: Create 1 – variation, ornamentation or improvisation
Level 3: Create 2 – variation, ornamentation or improvisation
Level 4: Dance All 3 varsations

Over all variation ideas

Full list of ideas
Rythmical varations – listen to Nathon and Joey
- Emphasis – changing it, swinging it
- Shifting the Beat
- Accross the bars
- Echo the rhythm
Same but different – visually diferent but rythmcially the same
Space

Homework:

Level 1: 70% slower
Level 2: 80% slower
Level 3: 90% slower
Level 4: 100%

week 3

Week 3

Woodshed

Aaron’s Key (jig)
- Sheet Music: https://thesession.org/tunes/2266
- Recordings: https://thesession.org/tunes/2266/recordings

Monday: Aaron’s Key (jig)

Keep Her Lit/Endurance Homework:

Leitrim Thrush Steps – your own and/or Maldon’s, keep building and improvising
June Material – Keep Her Lit
- Teampall an Ghleanntánn
- Maldon’s Jig Steps
- Reels – Advance & Retire Mick/Willie, Clare 1,2,3 & Mick off beat
- Waltz Steps

Aaron’s Key Homework:

Level 1: 70% slower
Level 2: 80% slower
Level 3: 90% slower
Level 4: 100%

Wednesday: Star (jig)

3rd tune in the set. July Music Recordings – These are rough recordings for learning and practicing only. These are from the Colúr band (Autumn, Ben and Maldon).

Homework:

Level 1: 70% slower
Level 2: 80% slower
Level 3: 90% slower
Level 4: 100%

Keep Her Lit:

We danced:
- Leitrim Thrush – Aaron’s Key – Star
- Teampall an Ghleanntánn (https://music.apple.com/us/album/teampall-an-ghleannt%C3%A1in-hickeys/256893329?i=256893376)

week 4

Week 4

Monday: Tolka Polka

July Music Recordings

Homework:

Level 1: 70% slower
Level 2: 80% slower
Level 3: 90% slower
Level 4: 100%

week 5

Tolka Polka C part & whole tune

July Music Recordings

Homework:

Level 1: 70% slower
Level 2: 80% slower
Level 3: 90% slower
Level 4: 100%

Keep Her Lit – July

The Leitrim Thrush: The Grand Spy / The Leitrim Thrush – Nathan Gourley, Joey Abarta & Owen Marshall Copley Street 2
- full speed, 80% (felt too slow for some)
Aaron’s Quay: Lisnagun / Aaron’s Quay / The Handsome Young Maidens (Live) – Bua Live At Martyrs’ Singer/Songwriter
- full speed, we didn’t have a chance to dance this slower
Tempall an Ghleanntán: Teampall an Ghleanntáin, Hickey’s – Mick O’Brien agus Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh Kitty Lie Over
- dance on your own

playlist

Playlists

Music

Full Video Playlist

keep her lit

Keep Her Lit: June Material

June Class Page

Jigs
- Maldon’s Jig Steps
Reels
- Mick A&R reels
- Wilie Keane A&R
- Clare 1,2,3 & Mick off beat
- Hare’s Paw
- Teampall an Ghleanntánn – A part step
Waltzes
- Timming step (with and without extra beat)
- Simple heel (with and without extra beat)
- Triplet
- Kick Up
- Jump
- Side (cape breton)
- Partner (side by side)
- Irish
- Jig
- Mattie’s – Clog step
- Partner (back to back)
- Ronan’s – Hip step (Keegan’s Waltz)

Classes, Current Classes, Irish Sean-nós Dance

overview

Mondays & Wednesdays 7:30 AM
Zoomlink: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84235671611?pwd=XQ3CucBEyzT016HK0O4Ts7zKNGiJ2p.1

Week by Week

	Mondays	Wednesdays
Week 1	1	4
	No Class	Jigs
Week 2	8	10
	Hare’s Paw	Hare’s Paw (no video)
Week 3	15	17
	A&R Mick & Wilie Clare Battering 1,2,3 & Mick off beat	A&R Mick & Wilie Clare Battering 1,2,3 & Mick off beat
Week 4	22	24
	Teampaill an Ghleann	Waltz Clog
Week 5	29 All Material

week 1

Week 1

Wednesday: Jig Steps

Keep Her Lit: Maldon’s Jig Steps
- Woodshed: Jig steps & Elements
- Criac – Improvisation games
- Speed: Jig Playlist

week 2

Week 2: Hare’s Paw Step

Monday

Keep Her Lit – Hare’s Paw
Hare’s Paw
Hare’s Paw Playlist

Wednesday

Build on steps and play – No video for this session. Work on your own with the steps and make them your own.

week 3

Week 3: Clare Battering Steps

Monday

Mick A&R reels
Wilie Keane A&R
Clare Battering steps – 1,2,3 & Mick (dance at home off beat shuffles)

Wednesday: No Class

week 4

Week 4:

Monday: Teampall an Ghleann

Wednesday: Waltz Clog

week 5

Monday: Dance all material from the month

Jigs
- Maldon’s Jig Steps
Reels –
- Mick A&R reels
- Wilie Keane A&R
- Clare 1,2,3 & Mick off beat
- Hare’s Paw
- Teampall an Ghleanntánn – A part step
Waltzes
- Timming step (with and without extra beat)
- Simple heel (with and without extra beat)
- Triplet
- Kick Up
- Jump
- Side (cape breton)
- Partner (side by side)
- Irish
- Jig
- Mattie’s – Clog step
- Partner (back to back)
- Ronan’s – Hip step (Keegan’s Waltz)

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