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Michaela Hinds retired from competitive Irish dance in 2017 after winning 7 solo championships, more than any other North American in the history of Oireachtas Rince na Cruinne. [ 125 ] Julia O'Rourke won her first solo championship in 2010 and was featured in the Jig documentary.
The word oireachtas means in "assembly" in the Irish language, and comes from the Old Irish airech, meaning "nobleman". [3] While the phrase can be used to refer to any cultural festival or gathering, as well as to the Irish legislature, in Irish dancing it has come to refer to major top-level competitions, and is often casually translated as "championship".
An Coimisiún Le Rincí Gaelacha (CLRG, English:The Irish Dancing Commission) is the oldest and largest governing body for competitive Irish step dancing globally. [1] Founded in 1927, [2] CLRG is responsible for creating a standardised system of Irish dance, music and competition for its member organisations in 26 countries.
An organised dance competition is referred to as a feis (plural feiseanna). The word feis means "festival" in Irish, and strictly speaking would also have competitions in music and crafts. Féile (IPA: [ˈfʲeːlʲə]) is a more correct term for the dance competition, but the terms may be used interchangeably. Dance competitions are divided by ...
Irish Dance. O'Connor is a competitive Irish Step Dancer. She was the 2024 Western Region Champion over 40 at the Western US Regional Oireachtas in Phoenix, AZ ...
In 2012, An Chomhdháil began to market its largest competition as the "World Irish Dance Championships", to compete with the larger Oireachtas Rince na Cruinne (Irish Dancing World Championships) event held by An Coimisiún. Its entries were composed largely of dancers from Ireland and the United Kingdom.
Sexton became a professional Irish dancer when she was cast as Morrighan in Michael Flatley’s Lord of the Dance. She has also performed in the stage shows Celtic Women, Heartbeat of Home, and Riverdance [3] and as a dancer in the Disney film Disenchanted. [4] In 2016, she became Senior Editor for The Irish Dancing Magazine.
The term feis is commonly used referring to Irish dance competitions and, in Ireland, to immersive teaching courses, specialising in traditional music and culture. Although it is Irish, in Scottish Gaelic, the accent is important because there is a difference of meaning and pronunciation between feis and fèis — the word feis means sexual ...