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.

Websites

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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/