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Irish Dancing Step By Step - Volume 3 The Complete Irish Traditional Set Dance Collection

In this brand new 90-minute video, Olive teaches you each Set Dance fully in her trademark successful teaching style, followed by the dancers demonstrating each entire dance in their workout clothes and then later again in full costume.
This showcase of traditional set dancing is a must for the potential dance teacher - as 5 of these 8 Set dances are necessary for the dance teacher examinations. Hence it is the definitive reference guide for all dancers, teachers and adjudicators alike!

Some of these dances have almost been lost, as the old dancing masters who handed down this beautiful tradition have since passed on. In order to get every detail perfect, Olive went out and researched these dances in great detail. On the video are the following dances:

- King Of The Fairies - 3 Sea Captains - Jockey To The Fair - White Blanket - Job of Journeywork - Garden of Daisies - The Blackbird - St.Patricks Day.

The dancers demonstrating with Olive are all World Dancing Champions.

Irish Dancing Step by Step Video - Volume I Irish Dancing for Beginners!

Irish Dancing Step by Step is an excellent instructional video, in which well-known Irish Dancing instructor Olive Hurley teaches you how to dance, Step By Step! Watch, learn and practise as Olive and her troupe of Champion dancers take you from the beginner's steps through to more advanced dances.
Among the World Champion dancers who feature in this video is Bernadette Flynn, and Tony Lundon!

This intuitive and enjoyable video is suitable for people of all ages, and makes learning to dance a thoroughly enjoyable experience!

Irish Dancing Step By Step Video - Volume II Learning to Dance in the Hard Shoes

There are 5 great dances on this video: TREBLE REEL - TREBLE JIG - HORNPIPE ST. PATRICKS DAY - THE BLACKBIRD
Olive takes you through each dance, literally Step by Step, demonstrated properly by both Olive herself and 6 World Champion Irish dancers! You will be shown how to practise each step, you will see the steps danced by the dancers themselves, with shots from several different camera angles so that you miss none of the detail. Then you will be shown how to complete each full dance in full, before a demonstration of each entire dance is shown by the dancers!

Rhythm & Shoes: The Irish Way

See this spectacular showcase and share center stage as the Claddagh Dance Company delivers a thunderous and thrilling production. This full-blooded presentation of lightning footwork features World Champion caliber dancers. A cast of 175 talented, high-energy, colorfully costumed performers enhance this wonderful presentation. Capture the Irish magic, and enjoy this rhythmic celebration.

Riverdance The Show - where it all began
Riverdance - Live From New York
Riverdance The Journey - has captured the magic, the energy and the passion of what began as a 7 mintue interval performance piece for the Eurovision Song Contest, and has gone on to become the music and dance phenomenon of the decade.
Offering a unique insight into the story behind the creation and making of Riverdance, this special video follows the show from it's beginnings in Dublin, on to London and then all the way to New York as the show becomes an enormous International Box office hit. Featuring all the passion, power and intrigue both on and off the stage, you will be entertained and enthralled by this magical experience.

Explosive Dance

Featuring the greatest names, the best dancers and the most renowned international dance companies, this unique and spectacular live dance event was staged at the Albert Hall in September 1998

Vida! * The Club Salsa Dance Company
Bathsheba and Troy - Leticia Muller and Kevin O'Hare from The Birmingham Royal Ballet
El Zapateado de Sarasate - Antonio Marquez
Reencuentros - Antonio Marquez and Dancers
The Kid from Red Bank - The Jiving Lindy Hoppers
Don Quixote Dmitri Gruzdyev and Tamara Rojo from The English National Ballet
Sleeping Beauty - Agnes Oakes and Thomas Edur from The English National Ballet
Walk and Talk - Deborah Bull and Ashley Page from The Royal Ballet
Le Corsair - Darcey Bussell and Yuri Yanowsky from The Royal Ballet
Heartland - Riverdance and princip�al dancers Joanne Doyle and Brendan de Gallai Antonio Marquez and Flamenco
Explosive Dance was staged to raise awareness and money for the British Red Cross Landmines Appeal.

Irish Dance-The International Dance Craze

Travel the world as we experience the excitement, history and beauty of this incredible dance form. From its origins in Ireland, to its proliferation around the globe, meet the real people who keep alive this mesmerizing traditional dance. From Ireland, England, Australia and North America, see why Irish dancing has captured the hearts, minds and soles of countless men, women and children. Marvel at the intricate dance steps, watch as future Irish dance stars practice for competition and learn the unique history that has propelled Irish dance into the international spotlight. A must-own video collection for the lovers of Irish dance, culture and tradition. Shot entirely on location in Cork, Limerick and Dublin, Ireland, London, England, Queensland, Australia and North America

31st World Irish Dancing Championships

This video production encapsulates all of the energy, enthusism, the joy, the sorrow, and sheer hard work which makes Oireachtas Rince na Cruinne (The World Irish Dancing Championships) an event apart.
Every effort has been made to include the maximum number of participants as possible in ninety minutes

25th Anniversary World Irish Dancing Championships

This unique video captures all the excitement, tension and joy of the World Irish Dancing Championships. There are 27 competitions in all and each is featured in every age. World Irish Dancing Championships 25th Anniversary. Containing interviews with competitors and with Irish Dancing personalities from Ireland and all over the world. This official video gives the real flavour of the background to the competitions...and shows the dedication and talent it takes to reach the World Championships.

Irish Dancing Made Easy

While the lightning-quick footwork of traditional Irish dancing could never really be called easy to learn, this straightforward instructional tape does its best to be clear and simple. The instructor is Seamus Kerrigan, who runs the Kerrigan School of Traditional Irish Dance in Ireland. A trim, no-nonsense man, Kerrigan couldn't be called a sparkling camera presence, but in this case, his unaffected style works for the beginner; none of that Riverdance-type flash. Kerrigan, accompanied by a couple of his dancers in a very modest-looking studio, slowly walks you through the basic steps of the light jig, the reel, and other steps. And he does it the only way most of us two-left-footed types can learn: by slowly repeating the pattern as he does it, counting each and every step, and doing it over and over, like you would in a class. You may find yourself walking with a little hop and hearing Kerrigan's soft brogue counting 1, 2, 3 in your head--and if you do, that's a great sign you're on your way to high-stepping with the best of them

History of Irish Dance and Music

This two-tape set is a must for anyone who enjoys Irish music, Celtic dance, Feet of Flames, the St. Paddy's Day parade, and anything else Irish or honorarily so. The first tape is a well-documented and -researched Ken Burns-esque documentary on the history of Irish music and its mutations and influences on the American shore. Combining interviews with such experts as Tommy Makem with stills and moving narration, the tape traces the traditions of the itinerant harpers across the Irish countryside, moving from village to village and sharing songs and folk tales. After the great potato famine in the 1850s, when more than a million Irish left their beloved country for places like America, Irish music continued to thrive and adapt to its new surroundings.

An especially fascinating segment demonstrates how the Irish music and dancing tradition shaped vaudeville (step dancing was the mother of modern tap routines, as well as the soft-shoe) and Tin Pan Alley (where the sentiment of Irish-Americans longing for a homeland they'd never known was brought forth in over-the-top ballads like "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling").

The second tape is a 48-minute performance at the Irish American Heritage Center in Chicago, including traditional step dance performed by the Trinity Dance Company. Also on the bill are the Makem Brothers, the sons of Tommy Makem, who continue the late-'50s and early-'60s tradition of Irish folksinging, with an emphasis on seafaring shanties. These young men are clearly true believers in the form, and their enthusiasm is infectious.

Dancing On Dangerous Ground is the thrilling new Irish dance drama based on Celtic's legend's most passionate and enduring love story - the tragic romance of Diarmuid & Grainne. The show features the world famous dancers and Riverdance stars Jean Butler and Colin Dunne. This long awaited Irish dance special received its world premiere in December 1999, at The Theatre Royal Drury Lane in London before transferring to Radio City Music Hall in New York in March 2000.

Butler and Dunne front a company of over 30 dancers, actors and musicians and an extraordinary creative team, who have devoted two years to produce the ultimate show for the Millennium. The band features Seamus Egan and the costumes are by Olivier Award winner Tim Hatley.

100 Years of Irish Dancing

Marking the 100th anniversary of Ceili dancing this video brings together a collection of 8 World Championship Irish Dancers as well as other talented young dancers that have gone on to perform on the World Stage in such shows as "Riverdance" and "Lord of the Dance". In addition to the dazzling steps of the dancers, you will also see and hear the very cream of Ireland's Ceili Bands backing these talented young dancers. Introduced by International Dance Teacher, Tom Quinn, dances include: Harvest Time Jig, Treble Reel, Exhibition Hornpipe, Slip Jig, Hornpipe, The 3 Tunes, Solo Set Dance, 2 Hand Reel, Trip to the Cottage, Solo Set Dance, Cross Reel, Hornpipe, Fairy Reel, Solo Jig, Siege of Ennis, Solo Reel, Treble Jig, The Blackbird, Walls of Limerick, Treble Reel, Reel, Clooneen Jig.