intro
Sean-nós Dance
This course welcomes all skill levels and focuses on dancing in jig time. Sean-nós is a grounded, often improvised style of dance. You’ll learn dance steps, routines, and improvisation techniques through fun exercises and games.
Saturdays 10:00 AM
1/18 – 3/8
$120 for 8 weeks
2400 NE Alberta Street, Portland, OR
Playlists
jigs
Practice videos – I have all the steps that we will cover over the 8 weeks in the video playlist on the intro page. Feel free to dig around in there. They should be in the order that I will be teaching them. On this week 1 tab you will find notes for what we covered on our first day. Also the practice videos that I made in class and below that you will find our practice videos for the 3 shuffles, 2 shuffles, 4 heels step.
We covered:
- Jigs – 6/8 timing, humpty dumpty is a jig
- tap step
- heel step
- toe behind step
- stamp step
- Shuffle
- 3 shuffles (with tap, heel, or toe behind endings)
- 4 heels (1234 sound)
- 2 shuffles and 4 heels
- Step: 3 shuffles, 2 shuffles, 4 heels
Practicing: You don’t have to practice but using the practice video of steps once or twice here and there will help. This will take 4-6 minutes. A good place to start a practice routine is to habit stack your practice sessin with a habit you already do. Like dancing while you are waiting in line for something, waiting for the coffee to brew in the morning, before you sit down for lunch, before after brushing your teeth. Find something that you do regularly and link it with your new dancing habit.
reels
recourses
- https://siamsa.ie/ – This is the streaming radio station of all Irish music that our fabulous accordion player Jim Loewenherz mentioned.
- www.youtube.com/@maldonmeehan1682 My youtube channel. I have loads of playlists of music and dance tracks and videos. Feel free to save any playlist to your own youtube account. In particular for this class I have a jig music playlist which you can slow down tracks and use for practicing.
