• Mondays & Wednesdays 7:30 AM (no Friday class this month)
• https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/Eo_cownTRXCrqB_pwJfmBw

Week by Week

Week 1

Monday

• Metronmoe App Google Download & Apple Download

Wednesday

Week 2

Monday

Wednesday

Wednesday Class Notes

In Wednesday’s class we continued refining the routine, simplifying it to one tune and focusing on just two steps:

• Clare Battering Step
• Mick’s Advance & Retire

We also started bringing in ornamentation ideas such as pauses, drums, triplets, slides, and drags.

Homework

Spend some time practicing with a metronome. I suggest working one step at a time to notice where you might be speeding up or slowing down. Aim to perfect each step on its own before putting them back into the routine.

If you find your timing slipping when you include all the variations, try practicing one A-part and B-part variation at a time until each feels solid. Then begin adding them together.

Once you’re happy with your timing, try bumping the tempo up by about 1-5 BPM. Aiming to be at 85 bpm by Monday.

Week 3

Monday

Wednesday

Drill all steps starting with the end and adding on each step.

• Woodshed each section
  • Metronome
• Whole step
  • Metronmome
• Routine
  • Metronome
• Homework – Keep working on this on your own. We will keep it lit by dancing it straight though. You will have to do the fine tuning and memorizing on your own. Or memorize it on the fly.
• Next Week – Bring a tune or a track that you like and create steps to it. Work on dancing it without the tune to see if you can hear the tune in the steps. Still no music March but using music to inspire your steps.

Week 4

Next Week – Bring a tune or a track that you like and create steps to it. Work on dancing it without the tune to see if you can hear the tune in the steps. Still no music March, but using music to inspire your steps. Practice listing and creating steps and then turning it off and keeping the rythm, pulse and melody in your feet and head.

Monday

Wednesday

Maldon’s Accapella Routine

• A – Clare #1 – 4x
• A – Clare #2 4x
• B – Clare #1/#3 2x
• B – Mick (1st half) 4x
• A – Mick Clare off beat 4x
• A –
• B –
• B –

• Zoom Link
• Mondays – Woodshed
• Wednesdays – Keep Her Lit
• Firdays – Speed & Craic

Week by Week

Week 1

Woodshed

Keep Her Lit

Speed & Craic

Week 2

We talked after class about O’Flaherty Irish Music Retreat and Seosamh Ó Neachtain (Joe)

• Youtube Playlist of Joe
• Seosamh Ó Neachtain – Page on this site
• O’Flaherty Irish Music Retreat – Joe will be the Sean-nós dancer this year. Oct. 2026.

Woodshed

Keep Her Lit

Speed & Craic

Week 3

Woodshed

Keep Her Lit

Speed & Craic

Week 4

Woodshed

Keep Her Lit

Speed & Craic

Enda Scahill – Gan Ainm/Liz Carroll’s (Air Tune) – steps inspired by this track. I went down the rabithole after class and continued to work on the step. I created the orginal part of it just before class and then built on it and am in the process of adding a triplet into the step. It’s a work in porgress.

Class Held at:

2400 NE Alberta Street, Portland, OR (upstairs)

Week by Week

Week 1 – The Armagh Lancers Set

we will learn the Armagh Lancers.
This set will be familiar to some of you who were in class last year. It also shares many similarities with the Clare Lancers Set. If you are taking the PCC class we will be learning the Armagh Set, this week which is also a jig set.

The Step | Down 23’s

The Set | Armagh Lancers Set

• Start: none Transition: none Finish: none
• Step: Down jig 
• Order: 1st Top/2nd Top/1st Side/2nd Side (1st sides are on the left of 1st Tops)

Fig 1 Square & Swing Corner Jigs 136bars

• 1. Active Follow & Opposite advance & swing in the center
• 2. Active couples Square (pass r only, follows in the inside/leads on the outside)
• 3. All Swing your corner
• 4. Swing partner

Fig 2 Lines Jigs 136 bars

• 1. Active couple R in R Advance & turn the follow (4 bars) & swing (4 bars)
• 2. Active couples Square (inactive couple split to from a line)
• 3. All Advance and Retire twice in Lines of 4
• 4. Swing partner at home

Fig 3 Big/Little Christmas Jigs 136 bars

• 1. All Big Christmas (4 bars) & Switch (4 bars) break away & square your set
• 2. Active couples dance the Visitation
• 3. All R hand Star with your corner
• 4. Little Christmas with your corner (6 bars) and open up (2 bars) (Active couple end up on the left)

Fig 4 Follows Star Jigs 136 bars 

• 1. Follows Advance
• 2. Leads Advance
• 3. Follows R Star (Leads dance on outside going r)
• 4. All Swing (Follows moving to R)

Fig 5 Chain & Line up Jigs 168 bars

• 1. All Chain (12) & Line up (behind active couple) (4)
• 2. Weave & Cast off (4) in to lines (4)
• 3. Lines Advance
• 4. Dance to partner (4) Swing (4)

Week 2 – Armagh Lancers  

Review the Armagh Lancers from Week one.

• Kilfenora Plain
• Ballyvourney
• Lancers
• Connemara
• North Kerry Set

Week 3 – Corballa Set

• Corballa Set

Week 4 – Corballa Set

• Corballa Set

Week by Week

• Jig Course | Introduction
• Jig Lesson 1 | 3 Shuffles, 2 Shuffles, 4 Heels
• Jig Lesson 2 | Cross Step
• Jig Lesson 3 | Run on with a Pause
• Jig Lesson 4 | Tip Step with Click
• Jig Lesson 5 | Run on Step with No Pause
• Jig Lesson 6 | Tip Step Both Sides
• Jig Lesson 7 | Side Step
• Jig Lesson 8 | Hop Step
• Jig Lesson 9 | Run on in a Circle
• Jig Lesson 10 | 3 Tips Step
• Jig Lesson 11 | Finishing Step
• Jig Lesson 12 | Whole Routine
• Jig Lesson 13 | Performance
• Jig Lesson 14 | Resources

Week 1

• 3 shuffles, 4 shuffles
• 8 shuffles
• Tip and click

Week 2

• 3 shuffles, 4 shuffles
• 8 shuffles
• Tip and click

• Jig Lesson 1 | 3 Shuffles, 2 Shuffles, 4 Heels
• Jig Lesson 2 | Cross Step
• Jig Lesson 3 | Run on with a Pause
• Jig Lesson 4 | Tip Step with Click
• Jig Lesson 5 | Run on Step with No Pause
• Jig Lesson 6 | Tip Step Both Sides

This week we put together the start of our routine. Sean-nós dance is at it’s core improvisational and free form, but when you are starting out you need a place to start. Having a routine and something to practice as you get comfortable with the dance form.