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DanceWatcher's Underground |
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So you want to go to a feis? Well, here's what those dance school tutors won't tell you!
Warning! Warning! If you hate accordion music, do not, I repeat DO NOT attend a feis! You will die. Or at the best, you will wind up spending a very long time in a quiet room in a place where other people lock your doors.
If the stage manager announces "Traditional Sets!" you may want to take a T & P break.
Because that means 40 ten-year-old novice dancers will be dancing "Saint Patricks Day". So you will get
to hear "Saint Patrick's Day" 20 times in a row. Then 16 more will be
dancing "The Blackbird". By then you will probably be bobbing your head like a parakeet. Don't say you weren't
warned.
This judge is admonishing the adult dancers for being noisy in line.
The musician cannot hear his metronome because of
their shaking knees.
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Judges watch the dancers go two at a time, and they scribble down scores. 90's="Oh my! Jean Butler is back!. 80's=OoH! She can do a toe stand!. 70's=Wow, his shoes didn't come untied!" And 60's= "Flower child." Sometimes judges also write comments on their sheets. Stuff like: "head up. cross feet. point toes. Nice." This lady's comment probably read something like, "Keep feet on stage when dancing." Actually, she's probably wearing those AIR GHILLIES but judges aren't too impressed by those fad things. |
| Okay. You waited all day to see the champion dancers. You've heard like 1,344 bars of traditional hornpipe and watched 23 pairs of little kids from the same school do the same two-hand. Now it's time for The Sets! You're sitting with a friend who's attending his first feis and you just know this is really going to impress him! |
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And the Announcer says: "Number 475 will now do "Rub the Bag" at 69." Your friend turns
to you and says, "Say what?!" He's decided that this Irish Dancing
stuff is pretty strange and now they're talking about milking cows or priming
bagpipes? Makes you wonder about the origin of those names, doesn't it?
When he hears "Humours of Bandon" he thinks it's "Humours Abandoned" and
decides it's the perfect dance for that guy because "He never smiles.
But then I wouldn't either if I had to wear an orange kilt."
Next it's this gorgeous blonde in a dress to die for ---metallics, rhinestones,
beautiful--- and the Announcer says,
"Miss Brown's Fancy" and your friend says,"She sure is!"
King of the Fairies? I won't even go there.
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