Intro to Irish Dancing – General

hey and welcome to watchmojo.com i’m
your host Devon and today we’re here to
give you an introduction to Irish
dancing the worldwide success of
Riverdance and lord of the dance has
placed irish dancing on the
international stage the history of Irish
dancing is big however it can be dated
back to the Druids and the early Celts
in 400 AD jump forward to the 16th
century we see talk of Irish jigs danced
in Galway and then later in the 18th
century we see the first appearance if
the Irish dance master basically he was
a wandering dance teacher who went from
village to village and taught peasants
how to Irish dance he would basically
choreograph his own routines basically
reels and jigs and for those who were
perhaps less skilled he would get them
to do group dances which are called
céilí dances that way they could still
enjoy Irish dancing but perhaps wouldn’t
really want to dance alone Irish dancing
today is primarily seen in competitions
and public performances a competition in
Irish dancing is called a fish which an
Irish means a festival the dance
competition is usually divided by age
and then by expertise so you can have
anywhere from under five to under 21 and
over 21 and then that’s also divided by
your expertise so you’d have your
beginners your advanced beginners your
novice dancers your prize winner your
open your preliminary championship and
then your open championship which is the
highest level of Irish dancing from
there you can also qualify to go to a
near Octus
while on Arrakis is a competition where
you would qualify to go to the World
Championships first of all you need to
qualify to go to in a raucous which
means you have to reached a certain
level of Irish dancing usually an open
dancer a preliminary dancer or an open
championship dancer would perform at
these competitions another way that you
can qualify to go to the world champions
which have been performed since 1970 is
by going to a nationals