Course: Absolute Beginners - Irish Dancing Footwork Basics ☘️

This is an four-week course focusing on Irish dancing footwork for absolute beginners! ☘️

This will be perfect for you if...

• You’re a total beginner and want a quick crash-course in the basics whilst having fun!
• You’re a beginner/improver who has taken a break and wants to refresh the very basics from scratch.
• You’re looking to build your confidence with the very fundamentals of Irish step dancing in both heavy shoe and light shoe at the same time
• You'd like to join a full beginners next steps or progressing beginners course in the autumn, but just want to build your confidence first!

We'll be covering light and heavy shoe dancing, and each two-hour session will cover both styles of footwork. Movements we will cover of the course include:

• The Threes
• The Sevens
• The Rise and Grind
• Sink and Grind
• Jump 23's
• Heavy Jig Rhythms (simple shuffles, double shuffles, shuffle backs, tips, stamps)
• Treble Reel Rhythms

🎥 Light Shoe Example: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vZqknZTIfVRfBqOyW19_Z-GO0O3zFK-C/view?usp=sharing

🎥 Heavy Shoe Example: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mDG_9C_Z-oKBqsOQy1agWk1_095ygmlw/view?usp=drive_link

💃🏻 Your teacher will be Jessie Leach - certified Irish Dancer teacher with CLRG, former Riverdance cast member and former All-Ireland, Great Britain and North American champion of Irish Dance.

🥂 This is a social class with optional post-jig swig at a pub round the corner!

FAQ’s

• You don’t need to be fit! Everyone takes it at their own pace.
• We have adults between 18 and 80 years old join our classes - all ages welcome!
• You don’t need any dance shoes - trainers are perfect!
• If you have any accessibility needs, let us know and we’ll support you.
  
• If you have to miss a class, don't worry, we send videos after every class so that you can catch up on what you missed, and we will recap everything the following week.

Note: This course is offered as a block booking only, so the group can build on our footwork each week.