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Soft Shoe Care-Looking after your pumpsAdded in Shoes on 21st Jul 2007 by Creagh |
| Aftercare for Hullachan soft reel Shoes. The foot has 125 thousand sweat glands and that can produce half a litre of perspiration when wearing your shoes at a competition. Its natural but the shoe will still be wet so the constant wetting and subsequent drying of the shoe will take its toll on the shoe itself. Your Hullachan will therefore need some form of after care treatment. Never put your |
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Instruments of the Music of Irish DanceAdded in Music on 9th Nov 2006 by Admin |
| Hard Shoed Foot The most important and most commonly overlooked instrument is the hard shoed foot. Kinney stresses this in his book when he quotes Mr. Hill, a professional Irish dancer of eleven years experience: ?The thing of great importance in Irish dancing,? Mr. Hill says, ?is the music of the shoes. In the eleven years that I have been dancing, the greater part of |
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Origins and History of Irish DanceAdded in Irish Dancing on 9th Nov 2006 by Admin |
| It is claimed that there is little in the written record about the dances and culture of Ireland in ancient times. Most history has been handed down orally through the nation's dance, music, and stories (Flynn 13). Indeed, a visit to the university?s library confirms the lack of a detailed written record. One example of the scarcity of authoritative sources of information is this: On page 41 of D |
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The Jig and ReelAdded in Irish Dancing on 9th Nov 2006 by Admin |
| George S. Emmerson notes in A Social History of Scottish Dance the origins of the term "jig." It is quoted below. "It has often been suggested that the word 'jig' is derived from the old French name gigue meaning a small fiddle, and certainly the first recorded use of the word in English in John de Garlandia?s Vocabulary (ca. 1225) seems to confirm this supposition" (Emmerson 193). S |
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The cost of Irish DancingAdded in Irish Dancing on 9th Nov 2006 by Admin |
| Irish dancing just grows and grows with each year that passes. There are more teachers, adjudicators and pupils helping to keep our art alive. But what costs come with taking up the flourishing art form? Money The Irish dancer spends on average ?2000 - ?3000+ every year on everything from lessons to a new dress. Lessons start at around ?4.00 per hour. So if you attend 4 classes a week |
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Report on Ballet dancersAdded in Health on 9th Nov 2006 by Admin |
| This is an article we found outlining the potential risks a ballet dancer could face. There's no direct connection between Irish dancing and Ballet, but there are similarities so we thought we would share it with you! Dancing 'en pointe' can lead to arthritis Young girls who carry out a ballet move too early in their training risk developing arthritis in the ankles, researchers have war |
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Starting Irish DancingAdded in Irish Dancing on 9th Nov 2006 by Admin |
| Irish dancing was made popular by dance shows such as Riverdance and Lord Of The Dance. And as a result of these shows it encouraged many people young and old to take up the hobby. There are a growing number of schools and teachers all around the world and like everything else they are moving and developing at a pace. The steps have become harder and the dresses bolder in design. But peoples enthu |
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The Anatomy of a dancer - Part 1Added in Health on 9th Nov 2006 by Creagh |
| THE KNEE Starting at the lower part of the femur, the knee joint is one of the most difficult of joints to heal if damaged. Most of you will know that a sprained ankle can heal relatively quickly but a sprained knee can take up to three times as long and indeed may never recover fully. I will go into the reasons for this later but suffice to say the knee is very delica |
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The Anatomy of a dancer - Part 2Added in Health on 9th Nov 2006 by Creagh |
| KNOCK KNEES Knock knees are loose at the joint and this will make the dancer unstable and may affect the muscles, ligaments and structure on both sides of the knee. I mentioned in my last article that some dancers unfortunately turn out from the knee instead of the hip and it is this condition that allows them to do this quite simply. The tibia is slightly turned out a |
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Shin SplintsAdded in Health on 9th Nov 2006 by Creagh |
| Shin-splints usually involve pain in the front or inside part of the lower leg. This pain frequently results from tendonitis or the inflammation of the muscles where they attach to the bone. When a dancer has Osgood-Schlatters disease, x-rays are necessary to make sure that they do have more serious problems such as tumours or possible infections. X-rays may show small extra pieces of |
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