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Stepdancing - how much is Irish?
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Subject: RE: Stepdancing - how much is Irish? From: meself Date: 18 Nov 17 - 03:21 PM Here's another (Willie Fraser): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJ_2OTQphmo&index=240&list=PL2B140A87D3310B23 |
Subject: RE: Stepdancing - how much is Irish? From: meself Date: 18 Nov 17 - 03:11 PM Okay, I'll try this one last time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmTIVbL8dGw&index=39&list=PL2B140A87D3310B23 |
Subject: RE: Stepdancing - how much is Irish? From: meself Date: 18 Nov 17 - 03:09 PM Sorry - here's the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmTIVbL8dGw&index=39&list=PL2B140A87D3310B23 |
Subject: RE: Stepdancing - how much is Irish? From: meself Date: 18 Nov 17 - 03:08 PM Thanks, Jim! That's the kind of dancing I could watch for hours. It reminds me of the way some of the old-timers would stepdance in Cape Breton and Prince Edward Island. For example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmTIVbL8dGw&index=39&list=PL2B140A87D3310B23 I suspect that Bobelix is right - that this sort of thing was widespread in the not terribly distant past. It would probably be next to impossible to find one place of origin for it ........ |
Subject: RE: Stepdancing - how much is Irish? From: Jim Carroll Date: 18 Nov 17 - 02:39 PM Display dancing in this county (Clare) is referred to as 'battering' - basically virtuoso solo dancing by men Only a few exponents now - this is one of our LOCALS Jim Carroll |
Subject: Stepdancing - how much is Irish? From: Bobelix Date: 18 Nov 17 - 12:22 PM OK, there's the Riverdance type stuff and there's sean-nos, and sure, they're Irish. However, I'm seeing videos on YouTube of Appalachian, Cape Breton, and Acadian step-dancing, and there's always the same person making the comment that it's all been pinched from the Irish. Did Irish dance-masters flock in huge numbers to French, Scots, and Ulster-Scots colonial territory just to make sure they were all dancing from the same page? Does anyone know the truth? My feeling is that there's a common folk root going back a L O N G time - given English clog-dancing and Welsh step-dancing, and it's just that the Irish have a great publicity agent that the rest of us should hire. ;) |
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