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Category: Irish Sean-nós Dance
2020 June | Sean-nós Dance Intermediate | Paraig Ó Haibicín & The Sunday Set
2020 June | Sean-nós Dance |Advanced
2020 Spring Term | Sean-nòs Jigs | Acapella Jig
Class 1
00 – Warm up to Joe Root on box – “New Moon Meadow”
5:00 – “Shuffle” – Breakdown
6:13 – 1st Step “3 shuffles, 2 shuffles, 4 heels” – Breakdown
11:15 – 1st Step “3 shuffles, 2 shuffles, 4 heels” – Slow Music – Betsy Branch on fiddle “Tatter Jack Walsh”
12:52 – 1st Step “3 shuffles, 2 shuffles, 4 heels” – A little faster
15:00 – 2nd Step “Cross” – Demo and Breakdown
19:00 – 2nd Step “Cross” – Slow music 20:18 min a little faster yet
22:12 – 1st (dance step 4 times – 16 bars) and 2nd step (dance step 2 times – 8 bars) – Slow music
25:30 – 3rd step “Simple” Run on (7 shuffles and a step)
I love how we all learn in different ways. I usually go by sound and visual, counting a step as you can see is not my strong suite.
27:10 – 3rd step “Run on with no pause” demo and breakdown
When we put this all together in the routine this “run on step” will be the 5th step in the routine.
32:50 – “Simple” 7 shuffles and “Run on with no Pause” to music. Ignore me saying 6 shuffles, it’s 7!
37:00 – All 4 steps to music
- “3 shuffles, 2 shuffles, 4 heels” (4 times)
- “Cross” (2 times)
- “7 shuffle Run on” (2 times)
- “Run on with no Pause” (2 times)
40:40 – Breakdown of the “Bonuses”
44:15 – All 4 steps to music – 80 BPM (This section is a little glitchy on the recording).
47:30 – All 4 steps again to music 80 BPM “Morrison’s Jig/Munster Bacon”
54:13 – all 4 steps – to slower music followed by the “Run on with no Pause” a bunch of times
57:47 – We end class and check in
Resources:
Class 2
Class 3
Class 4
Class 5
Tune of the week: Betsy Branch on Fiddle: Jig: Morrison’s Jig / Munster Butter Bacon
- https://maldonmeehan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Morrisons-Jig_Munster-Bacon-@-100-bpm.mp3
- https://maldonmeehan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Morrisons-Jig_Munster-Bacon-@-80-bpm.mp3
Bonus points can you identify the books on the book shelf? Extra bonus points, do you have them in your own library?
- 0:00:00 Checking in
- 0:10:30 Warm up to Betsy Branch
- 0:14:30 1st Step | 3 Shuffles, 2 shuffles, 4 heels
- 0:18:20 2nd Step | Cross Step
- 0:22:30 3rd Step |Run on with a Pause
- 0:26:00 4th Step | Tip with Click
- 0:29:30 5th Step | Run on Step with no Pause
- 0:29:30 Emphasizing the strong Downbeat
- 0:30:30 With Music
- https://maldonmeehan.com/jig-lesson-5-run-on-step-with-no-pause/
- 0:34:00 6th Step | Tip Step Both Sides
- 34:00 Review and introducing variations in volume while dancing
- 35:00 Music
- https://maldonmeehan.com/jig-lesson-6-tip-step-both-sides/
- 0:38:10 7th Step | Side Step
- 0:38:10 Review
- 0:39:40 Music
- 0:45:00 Music – full body ish (no head)
- 0:47:00 8th Step | Hop Step
- 0:47:00 Review
- 0:48:00 Music https://maldonmeehan.com/jig-lesson-9-hop-step/
- 0:51:55 9th Step | Run on in a Circle
- 0:56:00 10th | 3 Tip Step
- 0:59:10 11th | Finishing Step
- https://maldonmeehan.com/jig-lesson-15-finishing-step/
- 1:01:30 Everything @ 100 bpm
- 1:04:30 Everything @ 80 bpm
- 1:08:00 Check in and check out
Links for this lesson:
Open House Play List on Youtube