Irish Dancing in Virginia Beach - Established 1996

 

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Virginia Beach Location
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Saturday
5:30pm

New Beginner

FULL

(New students & students from summer session '09)

 4:30pm

Prizewinner-Champion

U12

Hard Shoe

 5:00pm

Adv Beg/Novice

Hard Shoe

 10:00am
 
Adv Beginner 2

Hard Shoe

5:30pm

 
Advanced Beginner 1
 
Intro to hard shoe
(last years beginners)
 5:30pm

Prizewinner-Champion

U12

Soft Shoe

 5:30pm

Pre-School Dance

ages 3-5

(30 minutes)

 11:00am
 
Adv Beginner 2
 
Soft Shoe
6:30pm

Advanced Beginner 1

Soft Shoe
(last years beginners)
 6:30pm

Prizewinner-Champion

12 & over

Hard Shoe

 6:00pm

Adv Beg -Novice

Soft Shoe

 

 11:00am

Novice -Prizewinner

Hard Shoe

6:30pm

 Beg - Novice

Teens & Adults 

 7:30pm

Prizewinner-Champion

 12 & over

Soft Shoe

   12:00pm

Novice -Prizewinner

Soft Shoe
      1:00 - 3:00pm

Champion

  

 

 

Yorktown classes are held at Margie Williams Studio of Dance on Dare Road. 

Email Kathy Nelson at bnelson44@cox.net for information and directions.

Yorktown Location

Wednesday Friday Saturday
7:15pm - 8:45pm

Advanced Beginner

Soft Shoe & Hard Shoe
(90 minutes)
 10:00am

Adv Beg - Novice

Hard Shoe

 8:45am

New Beginner

Enrolling Now!
(New students & students from
summer session '09)

 
  11:00am

Adv Beg - Novice

Soft Shoe

 11:00am

Beginner

Hard shoe
  5:30pm

Novice -Prizewinner

Hard Shoe

 12:00pm

Prizewinner - Champion

Hard Shoe
  6:30pm

Novice - Prizewinner

Soft Shoe

 1:00pm

Prizewinner - Champion

Soft Shoe
  7:30pm

Advanced Beginner

Hard Shoe

  

 
 

WHICH CLASSES SHOULD MY CHILD TAKE?

The categories listed below are the levels of Irish dance and will help you determine which classes to enroll in.

New Beginners are dancers who are Irish dancing for the first time.

Beginners have been dancing 6  to 12 months. 

Advanced Beginners are beginners from last year and have been dancing for 1 full year.

Novice is anyone who competed in a Feis, in Advanced Beginner and placed 1st., 2nd., or 3rd. in competition.

Prizewinner is anyone who competed in a Feis, in Novice and placed 1st only in competition.

Preliminary Champion

a)    The dancer must have won a 1st place in a LIGHT Dance and a 1st  place in a HEAVY dance in the Prizewinner grade, and

b)      Have never won 1st, 2nd or 3rd in Open Championship. 

Open Champion is anyone who places 1st two times in preliminary championships moves to open championships as soon as the second win is achieved.

Ceili & Figure Dancing - Performed in groups for competition. 30 ceili dances taken from the book Ár Rinncidhe Foirne, and is officially recognized by An Coimisiun le Rince Gaelacha, Ireland. 

Combination Classes are for students that compete at different levels. For example: a dancer may have placed 1st in reels to move up to the next level but did not place in jigs. So the dancer could be in Advanced beginner jigs but Novice reels.

Please match your classes as close as you can to match their proper level in competition. Second year students automatically become advanced beginners.

If your child will be competing, at least 2 classes per week is recommended.

 

  
 

2009-2010  CLASSES

STARTS TUESDAY

9/08/09

SCHEDULE SUBJECT TO CHANGE DEPENDING ON ENROLLMENT

Most classes are 1 hour unless otherwise noted