Fave dance videos

I regularly share my favourite web links with dance friends and students, here they are for all to view, enjoy!

​If any of these links no longer work, drop me a line and I will remove them from the blog.  I will add "new" beside additional items and they will remain "new" for 1 month.  If you have any links you would like me to add, just drop me a line - here

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Videos:

Steps Across the Pond
An international group of percussive dancers who have been meeting online since the summer of 2020.  We enjoy sharing steps, conversation, and life for two hours once a week, in 2023 we created our first joint project:

Video 1:  new choreography from Maria Monakova to a tune called: "Tá An Coileach Ag Fógairt An Lae" - Steps Across The Pond

Video 2:  5 Hornpipe Steps from Frankie Roddy of Derry, inspired by Annette's research project funded by Instep RT - click here - released in December 2024, on the 20th anniversary of his death.
  (coming soon! A home study course teaching these steps, a free resource)

YouTube channels from some members of the group:

• Annette, in Ireland - click here 
• Kristen, in Colorado - click here
• Maria, in Russia -  click here
• Kate, in Russia - click here

Again & Again - a wonderful piece including Kate which was choreographed by her teacher, Lena - click here

Lena's YouTube Channel - click here

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Slip Jigs & Hop Jigs

​​I have always loved this quirky 9/8 time signature
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• Jackie O'Riley - Dusty Millar Hop Jig

           (this dance is available as a home-study course click here)

• Rebecca McGowan & Kate Spanos - Donncha & Celine's Slip Jig
• Caitlín NicGabhann - St Brigid's Day Slip Jig

            ​(available as a home-study course click here)

• Kieran Jordan's take on the slip jig - click here
• Ednie Wilson - An English Percussive Slip Jig
• Three members of Steps Across the Pond met in April '24 for the first time, and created this piece: The Silver Slipper Hop Jig
• A personal fave ❤️​ Maria Monakova's choreography to a tune called "The Butterfly" - click here to see her students,  here to see Maria, and here to see me dancing it a couple of miles from my home on the shores of Lough Neagh (this dance is available as a home-study course click here)

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Other Funky Stuff - 😊

• ​Jackie O'Riley & Rebecca McGowen dancing Mount Phoebus' Hunt - click here
• Dannsa Scotland YouTube channel - click here
• ​Nic Gareiss' YouTube channel - click here
• Miss Moonshine's YouTube channel - click here

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Longer videos:

A wonderful old documentary about Welsh Clogging (15 mins) - click here

Traditional Quebec dancing, performance and tutorial of "The Brandy", from 1974. (18 mins) - click here 

South Derry Dancing from Joe & Mary McGuiggan (24 mins) - click here  (added 26 March)

​Caitlín NicGabhann presents "Drawing from the Well", Episode 3 (30 mins) - click here

Wheatland Fest, the 1st 40 yrs (+ a very young Nic Gareiss (40 mins) - click here

STap Dancing Documentary, with an intro in Swedish, (54 mins) - click here  (added 22 April)

Becky Hill (60 mins) - Becky Hill & Friends

Talking Feet Documentary on Traditional American Southern Dances (90 mins) - click here
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Other links:

First of its kind - a visual album of dance:
From the Floor | Jackie O'Riley & Rebecca McGowan

My all-time favourite dance fest, Le Grand bal de L'Europe:
A HUGE dance festival lasting 2 weeks (late July into August). Dancers can attend for a day, few days, week, or even the whole thing, a mecca of dance, live music at all workshops and into the wee hours: www.gennetines.org

A new fest for me, in July 2024 I was invited to teach into the  Irish traditional music festival – Rencontres Musicales Irlandaises de Tocane – held in the small rural town of Tocane Saint Apre in the Dordogne region of south-west France, 140km east of Bordeaux. It is the longest running trad fest outside Ireland, and even made it to the Irish Music Archives.  I am teaching there again in 2025, and believe this could be a yearly destination for work or pleasure!
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