Irish Dance & Music
By: Kyra FournierMaddy Ix
Anastasia Laneuville
Irish Dance• Performed at weddings,
fairs, on holidays and other social gatherings
• Early 1700s, the ‘Travelling Dance Master’, appeared in Ireland– An educated man, who
taught dance for a living– Introduced ‘Step Dancing’
Irish Step Dancing• Executed in eight bar ‘steps’(Eight bars: eight counts of music)• High discipline showed by holding
arms by your side• Done solo, in pairs or in groups• Types of dance: jigs, hornpipe and
reels (difference depends on speed and the bars)
• Use two different pairs of shoes– Hard shoes (made with fiberglass) are
mainly for jigs, the noises make rhythms
– Soft shoe (made of black leather) are used for all types of dance, they are flexible and do not make noise
Step Dancing Shoes
Soft Shoes Hard Shoes
Step Dance Costumes• Dresses are worn, never kilts• Only the boys wear kilts
• Dresses are heavy “A”-line dresses, often bright colors
• Girls tend to have long, curly hair• No rule for the hair
• Wigs or extensions are normally worn
• Costumes and hair accessories can be very expensive
IRISH MUSIC
Traditional & Folk
• Instruments used– Bodhran (Irish Drum)– The Fiddle– The Flute– The Tin Whistle– Uilleann Pipes
• Can be traced 2000 years ago to when the Celts arrived in Ireland
• Traditional music has thrived the most in Ireland
Irish Rock• Rock and roll became popular in the
60s in Ireland• The British Invasion, while big in the
United States, was also big in Ireland• Van Morrison put Irish Rock music on
the charts• Songs: Have I Told You Lately That I
Love You, Brown Eyed Girl, Moondance, etc.
• The most influential band that came from Ireland is U2 (formed 1980)• Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton
and Larry Mullen, Jr.• U2 have a total of 90 awards,
including 22 Grammy Awards• Songs: Invisible (RED), Sunday Bloody
Sunday, Beautiful Day, With or Without You, Pride (In The Name Of Love), etc.
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Websites
Information• http://www.marie-duffy-foundation.com/HistoryOfIrishDance.htm • http://histclo.com/act/dance/danceir.html • http://www.yourirish.com/culture/music/ • http://rockmusic.mu/irish-rock-music.html • http://www.discoverdublin.ie/musical-pub-crawl/story-of-irish-music/
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