A very interesting workshop for all levels of traditional Irish dancing given by Kevin McCormack one of the first dancers selected for Riverdance in which also his brother, Ronan McCormack, featured.

Here, on the right, you see him immediately left of the guy in the middle, a picture taken from Riverdance, Live from New York City.

To have a small idea of the skills of Kevin, just look at this hard shoe reel step (mpeg; 3Mb) performed at slow speed.

The workshop was attended by almost all Irish Dancing teachers of Belgium, and two Irish teachers living in The Netherlands: Sean Kilkenny and Ann Gallagher.



Here is the material that figured on the programme. Please allow us a few weeks to get this page complete.

Beginners' level

Style exercises

Soft shoe reel

Here is the Side step on sheet music (pdf; 60 Kb).

Treble jig

Treble reel

Here you find the lead around (pdf; 60Kb) on sheet music.

Waltz of Limerick

We covered this dance already before: please see the 4th Ceilidh page.

Antrim reel

This, and many other Ceili dances, is shown on the video Dancing at the crossroads, in which Kevin McCormack participates.

Intermediate level

Slip jig

Boys reel

Treble single jig

Treble reel

Two steps were given: first step and second step (coming soon, I hope).

Advanced level

Fiddler round the Fairy Tree

Treble jig