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IrishTapDancer11
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How do I get in competitions?
« Thread started on: Jun 30th, 2009, 1:49pm » |
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Okay, I'm a beginner. Today was my second Irish dance class.
I was wondering, how do I know when I'm qualified for competitions, and how do I enter one? Because I really want to compete when I'm ready to!
Also, if you had any tips for me, I would really appreciate them!
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Re: How do I get in competitions?
« Reply #1 on: Jul 14th, 2009, 6:26pm » |
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Your qualified for competitions (feisianna) right now! It may be different in your school, but your teacher should give out a syllabus or entry form that you either fill out and bring to class or mail to the address it says to. I don't know how old you are, but just say your 13 as of January 1st of the current year, then you would sign up for beginner under 14. It's pretty easy to figure out. [: At first, you might only do feisianna that are hosted by your own school. When you start going to other school's feisianna, it gets more competitive and well... it's just better to stick to your own school's feisianna for a year to get used to it. Plus, your more likely to win at your own school's feis, atleast until you get into Prelim and Open Championship.
I suggest you ask your teacher about feisianna so she might give you an entry form! But, just warning you, some schools don't let their dancers compete until higher levels. But either way, it's great that you want to compete and I hope you get to! Competing is a ton of fun!
By tips, did you mean dancing in general tips or feis tips? I'll give you both!
1: Feet should always be turned out. To practice this, stand on some sort of line (for example, the edge of a rug, a piece of tape on the floor, any straight line on the ground) and do skip 1-2-3s and keep both feet turned out on the line. If you didn't understand that just let me know and I will try to better explain.
2: Stand up on your toes! In every dance, not just light jigs, you have to stand on your toes! It always gets the judge's attention in a feis to be REALLY high on your toes! Practice this by going half way up on your toes, and then the highest you can go, and then back down to the ground, and repeat!
3: ALWAYS keep one knee in front of the other. If I was standing directly in front of you while you are dancing, I should only see 1 knee.
~FEIS TIPS~
1: Practice, practice, practice the night before!
2: Have EVERYTHING set up the night before. Do you have your shoes (light and soft), a water bottle, a piece of paper and pen to write your scores on, a card holder, string, bobby pins, safety pins, a wig? (or just curl your hair not even going to get into that! lol!)
3: On the drive to the feis, just speak the words to the step out loud. If you can say the step, I guarentee you can do it! Be positive too!
4: Smile, but not a creepy one! NO:  YES:  lol but a smile is not necessary! Iv messed up so many times from trying to remember to smile and then messing up! not fun!
Hope this helped! Just reply if you have any questions! Treble on [:
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IrishTapDancer11
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Re: How do I get in competitions?
« Reply #2 on: Jul 19th, 2009, 12:16pm » |
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on Jul 14th, 2009, 6:26pm, converseirishdance wrote:Your qualified for competitions (feisianna) right now! It may be different in your school, but your teacher should give out a syllabus or entry form that you either fill out and bring to class or mail to the address it says to. I don't know how old you are, but just say your 13 as of January 1st of the current year, then you would sign up for beginner under 14. It's pretty easy to figure out. [: At first, you might only do feisianna that are hosted by your own school. When you start going to other school's feisianna, it gets more competitive and well... it's just better to stick to your own school's feisianna for a year to get used to it. Plus, your more likely to win at your own school's feis, atleast until you get into Prelim and Open Championship.
I suggest you ask your teacher about feisianna so she might give you an entry form! But, just warning you, some schools don't let their dancers compete until higher levels. But either way, it's great that you want to compete and I hope you get to! Competing is a ton of fun!
By tips, did you mean dancing in general tips or feis tips? I'll give you both!
1: Feet should always be turned out. To practice this, stand on some sort of line (for example, the edge of a rug, a piece of tape on the floor, any straight line on the ground) and do skip 1-2-3s and keep both feet turned out on the line. If you didn't understand that just let me know and I will try to better explain.
2: Stand up on your toes! In every dance, not just light jigs, you have to stand on your toes! It always gets the judge's attention in a feis to be REALLY high on your toes! Practice this by going half way up on your toes, and then the highest you can go, and then back down to the ground, and repeat!
3: ALWAYS keep one knee in front of the other. If I was standing directly in front of you while you are dancing, I should only see 1 knee.
~FEIS TIPS~
1: Practice, practice, practice the night before!
2: Have EVERYTHING set up the night before. Do you have your shoes (light and soft), a water bottle, a piece of paper and pen to write your scores on, a card holder, string, bobby pins, safety pins, a wig? (or just curl your hair not even going to get into that! lol!)
3: On the drive to the feis, just speak the words to the step out loud. If you can say the step, I guarentee you can do it! Be positive too!
4: Smile, but not a creepy one! NO: YES: lol but a smile is not necessary! Iv messed up so many times from trying to remember to smile and then messing up! not fun!
Hope this helped! Just reply if you have any questions! Treble on [: |
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Thank you soooo much! It was some really helpful info!
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