Ray Ray

O22 || Southern Academy || Preliminary Champ || Fitness || UMW '17

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Dancing in the rain ☔

Featured: Amy-Mae Dolan

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She took the leap and built her wings on the way down.

Featured: Caitlin, Scoil Rince Mona Ni Rodaigh

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Kickin’ it with Nessa 😉

Featured: Nessa, Mid-America Champ 2017, 5th at Worlds

[owenluebbers15]

honestly does irish dancing tumblr even exist anympre cause idrk but hey guys!!! got this thing called an irish dance practice pad and it’s actually SICK!!! i literally use it to practice in my room at college so like goodBYE this thing so versatile it hurts!!!🤪🧡🙌🏼

[funnydressesweirdhairanddance]

“The World at Their Feet” Irish Dancing Championship

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!

[everysongsmiles]

I'm actually so sad I'm selling my dress, boo for not being in college and being able to work out every day. It was my come back dress and has been with me through so much in dance! I always wanted a new one, but this one just suited me so well! I'm going to miss it and hope the buyer loves it as much as I still do!!! Farewell little blue aka Dory, dance on!

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in love with this photo Dorothy Hulburt (@mamarazzi_uno) took of the u15b split during awards at NANS! so classy! (click for better resolution)

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Me after tanning for a feis:

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Arriving at a Major like

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[skypig357]

Get your ass on the dance floor

[runwithskizzers]

this is already on my blog like five times and i honestly don’t even care

[theforce]

i was 14 and i was walking through a mall by myself at 12am after my shift at coldstone creamery lol and a bunch of men started whistling and meowing and getting really close to me and they kept asking me questions and i kept not answering until i didn’t know what else to do so i said “i’m only 14” and almost in unison they said “we don’t care” i was so fucking scared i didn’t know what to do and they kept talking about how i looked and how my body looked and what they would do i was on the verge of tears i was all alone in a huge mall i knew i couldn’t outrun them all i felt totally hopeless until a maintenance worker came up to all of us with a huge industrial broom in her hand, i thought she was going to yell at all of us for being in the mall after hours bc she probably thought we were all friends but instead she cursed all of them out in spanish, threatened to press a panic button on her belt and then proceeded to walk me to the basement garage and waited with me until my mom got there to pick me up she had a death grip on her cart the whole time and a face of steel she looked so strong and i just kept saying thank you and she kept saying not to thank her because she had to stop them.

that was the moment i realized women were the most important beings on this planet and we have to protect each other bc nobody else is going to, she didn’t even know me, we couldn’t even communicate that well because of the language barrier, she could have lost her job for waiting with me in the parking lot but she looked out for me when she didn’t have to, she had nothing to gain from it, i’m 21 now and i tell everyone this story even though it happened 7 years ago, what she did that night helped me form and shape lot of my beliefs early on. 

[actuallunalovegood]

i was at a grocery store really late one night and some old guy kind of eyed me as i walked out of the store next to this other lady. She and I made eye contact and i knew she was scared too. we loaded up our groceries into our cars as fast as possible and I had way more bags than her so she got done faster than me. I panicked because i was sure she was going to leave so i just hurried faster, shaking a little, and then i noticed she sat in her car, watching me and making sure nobody came near. She waited not until all my groceries were loaded, or until my cart was put away, or until I got into my car. No, she didn’t drive away until I drove away. 

And that was the moment that I realized how much women need other women. That we can’t win this war without each other and we have to be looking out for each other, every second. 

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my last year in new york city, i got off the subway around 9 or 10p.m. i only lived about 5 blocks from the f train, but i hadn’t gotten more than two before a woman’s hand suddenly touched my arm. 

“that guy behind us is following you,” she said. “he was watching you leave the train car and followed you up.”

i hadn’t noticed him, or at least not noticed him following me. when we stopped outside a grocery store, he stopped half a block back and loitered. the woman linked her arm with mine and walked me several blocks out of her way to my front door and made sure i got inside safely.

another time, nocigar and i were walking home and at a stoplight a stranger grabbed my arm when i wouldn’t respond to him and tried to physically drag me over to him. she—who is, by the way, not a very physically imposing girl—ripped his hand off my arm and snarled, “don’t fucking touch her.”

protect your friends. protect strangers. there are good men in the world, but don’t wait for them to do something if you can do it yourself.

[edmundo-noches-buckley]

I was at a club once and my friend left with her boyfriend so I finished my drink and was heading out to the parking lot when three girls came up to me and basically surrounded me. 

“Those guys behind us were talking about following you. We can walk with you.” 

I have MMA training but have never in my life had been offered the protection and sanction of my own gender. This is so important. 

[stele3]

GIRL CODE. FUCKIN’ GIRL CODE. LEAVE NO GIRL BEHIND. EVER.

[rookiemag]

protect each other!!!

-naomi

[overraetedd]

This post is so important to me, this is something I would do and knowing that maybe one day someone would do this for me makes me truly feel loved. We as women have to love and watch out for each other. Please don’t tear each other down, lift one another up.

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Dance like no one’s watching, especially when you are out on the streets! 😉 Featured: Robyn Connolly, 3rd in the World, Reigning All-Ireland Champion

[thehorrcr]

Irish dance is casually slamming down 20 cups of coffee with ibuprofen in them when u have to wake up early on a feis day, smearing some red lipstick on like ur Miranda Sings herself, and stomping the ground so hard that u can literally feel urself shattering somethin’

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this is literally an accurate summary of a double feis weekend

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[anyadancer195]

Worlds 2018 ✨ so happy to have recalled for the second year in a row, especially after being on tour for a month right before! Also shoutout to Sean O’Brien for playing the best tune EVER