Category: Past Classes

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 – 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 – 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 – 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

Class 4 – Mick’s Advance & Retire Step

• Step
  • Mick’s Advance & Retire
  • Right Lead (Lady)
  • Left Lead (Gent)
• Practice
  • Slow, Med, Fast

• Set: Plain Set
  • Figure 2
  • Figure 3
  • Figure 4

All steps thus far:

• Mick Banner
• Mick $500
• Aidan
• Clare Batter
• Mick Advance & Retire

All the Videos for this term!

We will build on Joe O’Donovan’s hornpipe steps and continue to add to our repertoire of old-style hornpipe steps.

Class 1:

• Lead Out
• Toe Clicks

The first step “toe clicks” that I teach in the class I taught wrong somehow. I will review my notes and re-record the step the correct way. The correction for the toe click step is in the woodshed video below.

3pm PST | 4pm MST | 5pm CST | 6pm EST on ZOOM Woodshed | Old-Style We will woodshed the lead out step and the heel click step. I messed up teaching the click step last week. We will correct the step during the woodshed.

Class 2:

• Murary’s #1

12pm PST | 1pm MST | 2pm CST | 3pm EST on ZOOM Class | Old-Style The second class we will continue to learn steps from the dancing of Joe O’Donovan and his repertoire. This class covers Freddy Murray’s #1.

3pm PST | 4pm MST | 5pm CST | 6pm EST on ZOOM Woodshed | Old-Style Murray’s #1 Woodshed

Sorry about the poor quality video, for reference only. I thought you’d like to see Joe himself dancing the Murray #1 step.

Here is a clip of Joe dancing the step:

Here is a clip of Joe breaking down the step:

Woodshed | Murray’s #2

https://youtu.be/k_azUyKYqsY

Winter 2 Hornpipes

• Lead Out
• Toe Clicks
• Murary’s #1
• Murrary’s #2
• #1 Kenifick’s
• #2 Kenifick’s