Don’t wait until feis day to eat the right foods.  Start now!  You may not realize this, but it is one of the most important aspects of your training.  You cannot train well if you are not fueled properly.  Eating foods that provide the vitamins and minerals that your body needs will give you plenty of energy and make your … Read More

To improve your turnout, you need to strengthen your lateral rotators and increase the range of motion in your hip joint. We have picked the following 3 exercises to do for 30 SECONDS each for the next 30 DAYS in order to achieve better turnout. ***VIDEOS of these exercises can be found on our Facebook and Instagram! 1. Standing Lateral … Read More

Please don’t waste your time fitness training specifically for dance and then neglect to apply that training directly to your dancing! Instead, as you are doing sport specific exercises, think about how you will implement those techniques into your dance practice. For example, if you are working on straightening your arms while dancing: perform a set of triceps dips and … Read More

If you want to get the most out of your core strength while dancing, then you must understand how to train and to use the core muscles properly. Many dancers spend hours strengthening their core muscles, but then do not understand how to engage them during dance. First, let’s define which muscles make up the core. The abdominal muscles, of … Read More

Let’s talk about judging and subjectivity. Now I have done my fair share of whining and complaining about feis results and judges’ opinions. However, if you stop to think about it, Irish dance is a performance art. Sure, there are certain basic techniques and performance qualities that every judge would like to see, but each dancer is different beyond the … Read More