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1990 Irish Dancing Documentary “The World at Their Feet” highlights the intense competition for the female solo championship at the 20th World Irish Dancing ...
Looklook what I found! A documentary about the 1990 World Championships. See Colin Dunne competing (in a kilt) ca. 22:05 onwards!
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it’s that time of night when i feel the need to rant about irish dancing, so hERE WE GO:
alright, i’m not pretending to be an expert on it. but i did irish dancing for 7+ years and gave it up about a year and a half ago, so i do know a bit.
basically, it’s being americanised, along with a lot of other parts of our culture. i love that irish dancing is still part of our community, and that people still do it. but it’s becoming a beauty pageant.
presentation is an important part of dance, and i recognise that. dresses are cool, makeup is cool, fake tan is cool, wigs are cool. wear what you want, present yourself how you like.
it’s just that (when competing) the more diamantés you have on your dress/tiara, the higher your score is automatically raised. my old class dress (no diamantés) cost around €500. a solo dress costs much more, the price depending on the amount of diamantés on it. it costs so, so much to “look the part”.
how you dance still matters, but not as much as it should. i don’t mean to sound like one of those “oh it was better in the old days” people, but it was less based around looks. and i do think it was more irish, less altered.
i do love irish dancing, i just don’t like the way it’s run.
so, yeah, that was my rant. it was based solely on my experience and the opinions of my friends and i, so it’s probably a bit biased. please correct me or add your own opinion, i’d love to hear from other people on this.
I agree with 99.99%. I just don’t think americanized is what causes it. Modernized maybe? I think Ireland Irish dance is still dominate (in CLRG at least) as far as most aspects of the sport/art goes. The major designers that have caused the most upheaval in style are from Ireland (and UK) aside from Michael Flatley.
I agree with this as well and love how respectfully it was worded. It’s for a lot of these reasons that I’ve kind of taken a step back from the competitive world recently. I used to be on board with the whole “america caused this” thing, but I live in Ireland now, and from what I’ve seen here is that America might have started some of the crazy trends (and we sure as hell invest in them) but people here in Ireland have really latched on and kept them going over the years. It’s really a joint effort.
And, like @peacegracehero mentioned already, a lot of major dress companies are based out of Ireland or the UK. I don’t know whether it’s them making crazy dress designs to appeal to Americans or if they want this just as much as most Americans do. But when it comes down to it, they are the ones manufacturing the dresses, and we(Americans) are the ones buying them, so once again, both sides can really be considered at fault for this one.
I wish both sides could take a step back and go “hmm maybe we don’t need to spend 3,500+ euros on a dress to get a better score” (or alternatively, for moments when you still might have faith in the judging of Irish dance competitions, “hmmm maybe a 3,500+ euro dress doesn’t change my score in the first place”) but Irish dance is sort of like a cult at times and mob mentality is real. It’s hard being the one person who doesn’t go in for every fashion investment, eventually people cave and just wear what the majority wears :/
@ironicanaemic (hmm I don’t think it’s letting me tag you? I’ll try anyway) I think you’ve made a really nice post and I appreciate you sharing it because it’s not a viewpoint that likes to be talked about, and when it is it’s usually in a disrespectful manner, so I really appreciate your post :)
i never expected to get such nice responses to my post, thank you so much for replying!
again, sorry about that whole “americanised” part. i completely agree with you on your point of it being a joint effort. people love to stand out when dancing, no matter where they’re from.
as a result of this it would make sense for designers to create more extravagant dresses, because the amount of people willing to buy them is the majority of the irish dancing community. and as both you and @peacegracehero have said, the majority of those designers are from ireland and the uk. the point i made about it being “americanised” wasn’t a very good one, sorry again!
hopefully the whole dress/judging situation changes soon, and i’m glad to hear there are more people who think it’s kind of ridiculous.
@ironicanaemic honestly no need to apologize, up until recently that was my view as well! :) It’s an easy opinion to make, and at least partially true because I would say we feed into the issue quite a bit (I mean technically everything did start moving fast when Lord of the Dance, an american made production, came out). And I totally agree – it’s nice to see people agreeing and discussing this stuff because I feel like the only time this subject gets breached is when Irish Central posts a needlessly scathing article about it and everyone gets all defensive
I’m just a 23 year old retired dancer so what do I know, but I follow many of the dress makers and a couple video/update accounts on instagram because I miss dance too much to not keep up with what’s going on in our crazy sport.
I have to say that I’m not keen on these new dresses with the super tight/mesh/cutout sleeves. I’ve even seen several dresses that have cutouts bear the collar and/or flesh colored mesh over cutouts in the bodice (Erin Mcpolin’s new dress is a good example*). To me, it seems like we’re straying dangerously close to ice skater territory. There’s nothing derogatory to ice skaters meant by this; God knows they work just as hard as we do at making their sport look effortless. But. Let ice skaters look like ice skaters and let Irish dancers look like Irish dancers. These new style sleeves and cutouts were probably started by dressmakers trying to make the dresses more athlete friendly- lighter weight, more ventilation, and people ran with it because it was a sleeker, sexier look. This globalization (to use the term from above) has gone a little too far this time. I’ll accept the dresses dripping in rhinestones even though dresses that have only rhinestones as the design and no applique or knotwork are not my favorite either, but I don’t like seeing our sport turning into something it’s not. Maybe I’m a little old fashioned, since I started dancing towards the end of the Riverdance boom and my first solo dress was a heavy giant three panel, but Irish dance is not supposed to be a sexy or alluring style of dance. It’s supposed to be about rhythm, power, and grace. We are athletes. We are here to compete. Looking sexy should not be a part of that.
(Although I will say that a man who can dance a hornpipe set at speed 70 with perfect rhythm…damn. 😉)
*I’m not trying to throw Erin Mcpolin or her dress under the bus- I think the dress is very pretty. The trends are just not to my tastes.
Please bear with me- I started dancing about 11 years ago, but haven’t moved into open or anything (because I sucked for the first few years, and I still suck at timing and rhythm; maybe I’ll begin getting my firsts in Prizewinner this year?). I’m mostly going off of what other people have said, and what I’ve observed.
I think it isn’t just the dresses that have changed, but the style of dance itself. One of my TCs was talking in class a few months ago about how it’s all about the tricks now- who can come up with the best, most amazing tricks in their steps, and execute them best (he was talking about how someone broke their ankle almost a decade ago adding something into her step (on stage at a major) that should be physically impossible, and how he now sees many people doing the same movement without doing so). It makes sense, since dancers have also become better and closer to “the perfect irish dancer”, and need something more to catch the judges’ eyes, but I think this is also really important to think about. He was talking about the tricks in terms of pushing bodies past what they should do, without intensive training, and sort of comparing dancers then to my dancing now, and the dancing of everyone else in my class a while ago. Apparently, if there was a time machine, the dancers from back when I started dancing would look like a Novice/Prizewinner compared to champs today (which I think he meant as a compliment to me, as though to say I would have qualified for something if I had started a decade sooner), due to how much better dancers have become. This is sort of proved by the steps I’ve been learning, in that I can look up recital videos from when I started, and see the champs doing earlier versions of some of the steps I’m now learning, or learned in the past. There were definitely fewer steps available to learn at my dance school in the grades when I started compared to now. I’m probably about on-par with some of the champs of yesterday, but then, I go to feisanna, or even just class, and see other people’s dancing, and suddenly neither those role models’ dancing nor my own looks that good anymore.
Which, it’s great that so many people are trying to better the art form, and so many champs look amazing. But, like the dresses, I think we really should take care to make sure that it doesn’t become so different that it would be unrecognizable, or more easily recognized as another type of dance, or at least realize that is possibly what we are doing to Irish dance.
I doubt those girls in ages past with hair combed and curled for Mass, dressed in their Sunday best, would recognize what Irish dance has turned into with CLRG. I’m not saying I hate what it has turned into- quite the opposite, I love dance- just saying it is different.
And I’ve lost my train of thought for this post… I guess I’d just like people to think about the changes in the actual art form as well, since people often bring up the wigs, the dresses, the spray tans, the crystals, etc, but don’t often mention how very different the dancing itself is from how it used to be.
I definitely agree. And while I do think Irish dance is always going to evolve as dancers push themselves harder and harder, we need to take care to cross train properly so that our bodies can still function when we’re 50 and no longer dancing. Right now according to my doctor, I have the knees of someone who’s 50, and I’m only 23. How will my body be holding up as I age? Am I going to need knee replacements in the next 10 years? And I don’t even dance any more. What about dancers my age and older who have been dancing since they were 5 and are still dancing?
As for the changing styles of steps and moves, I think that’s inevitable as well, for the same reason mentioned above. However, I think it’s really important to teach the old trad sets and the ceilis because these are our roots. Those dances are a part of Irish history and culture and should be preserved. What better way to preserve them by teaching them to eager students who want to learn because they love dance, not because they are worried about preserving the culture? This is something that I really like about my dance school. Everyone did ceilis in addition to solos because my teacher wanted to keep the old dances alive and pass them on to the next generation.
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This is what I was talking about - the fall. This is scary! But she’s all right and placed in top15.
That is TERRIFYING….sounds like she handled it like a champ, though. Yikes.
