Course: Beginners - Light and Heavy Shoe 🇮🇪

This course is now closed for booking. Please join our beginners waitlist for info on New Year 2027 courses

This is an 12-week course for progressing beginner-level Irish dancers with 3-6 month's experience who want to keep learning Irish dancing in a fun and supportive environment!

Each class will cover both heavy and light dancing, so you can build your confidence with both.

This is perfect for dancers who...
• Already have some beginners experience
• Are feeling comfortable with the very basics of soft shoe dancing (threes, sevens, jumps, rise and grind), and have tried some simple heavy shoe dancing.
• Want to build their confidence with beginner-level steps
• Are confident in other dance styles and able to pick up steps quickly

🎥 These steps should already look totally manageable: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IQKgzKWeGTdsNraSEE7Zd0WqtFFzVfU3/view?usp=drive_link

🎥 These steps should look a little trick, but manageable with some practice:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mDG_9C_Z-oKBqsOQy1agWk1_095ygmlw/view?usp=drive_link

In autumn will learning...

• Beginners Slip Jig
• Beginners Heavy Jig
• Beginners Reel
• Beginners Treble Reel

💃🏻 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 The Boogaloo down the road!

If you want to go at a slower pace, see our Beginners (Relaxed) course in Highgate, or our Absolute Beginners Footwork sessions on Wednesdays in King's Cross.

Note: This course is offered as a block booking only, so the group can build on steps this week