Interesting. Judging from videos and personal experience, the dance is danced this way in North America, Scotland, England and Ireland. It represents the waves around the Irish Isle of Tory. The dip and dive movement is common to all variations. But the Riverdance and Irish modern step dancers dance it quite differently, and in their step dancing style. The dance must be much older than Irish modern step dance - after all, the American settlers took their country dancing with them from their homeland. My assumption is that the Riverdance/modern step dance version is just that - a modern variation to suit their style of dancing. But a Ceilidh/Ceili is a social event which should be fun, not serious.
"Irish dancing" can mean many things: Sean Nòs step dancing (old time, like many other countries), modern Irish step dancing (River Dance), Irish set dancing, and Irish Cèili country dancing. I do this in English Ceilidh (English Barn Dancing). Social dances have no national boundaries, we all share and enjoy. I'm guessing you do modern Irish Step dancing. I do whatever I can find, but preferably Scottish informal Ceilidh.
Love this instructional 'Waves of Tory '. Nice that the teacher has her dancers acknowledge the musician.
Brilliant!..i remember going to the cealeigh In my younger days..Thanks for posting..:)
Interesting. Judging from videos and personal experience, the dance is danced this way in North America, Scotland, England and Ireland. It represents the waves around the Irish Isle of Tory. The dip and dive movement is common to all variations. But the Riverdance and Irish modern step dancers dance it quite differently, and in their step dancing style. The dance must be much older than Irish modern step dance - after all, the American settlers took their country dancing with them from their homeland. My assumption is that the Riverdance/modern step dance version is just that - a modern variation to suit their style of dancing. But a Ceilidh/Ceili is a social event which should be fun, not serious.
Thank you. This is how we learnt to dance it in Scotland.
Fond memories doing this on the Irish Gaetacht
Four Hand Reel
This looks like fun - thanks for sharing! What music are you using for this dance?
Damhsa iontach! Is breá leis an damhsa ceili a an-spraoi don fhéas ar scoil
Go raibh maith agat. Is maith linn féilte.
I am not irish so to me that is ...........?.?....?.
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its spelled Céilí you spelled it the Scottish Gaelic way, Céilí is the Irish word for it
We used the word Cèilidh for the cèilidh, not for the dance. This is really a Scottish Cèilidh, and we did an Irish dance
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This is not Irish dance
Fun, but this is not Irish dance, and not “Waves of Tory”.
It is
Gergel School it’s not Irish I do Irish dancing I think that I would know
"Irish dancing" can mean many things: Sean Nòs step dancing (old time, like many other countries), modern Irish step dancing (River Dance), Irish set dancing, and Irish Cèili country dancing. I do this in English Ceilidh (English Barn Dancing). Social dances have no national boundaries, we all share and enjoy. I'm guessing you do modern Irish Step dancing. I do whatever I can find, but preferably Scottish informal Ceilidh.