Irish dance - Irish dance Irish dance (sometimes referred to as "step dancing") is a type of recreational and competitive folk dance that has been popularized by the world-famous "Riverdance" and "Lord of the Dance." When performed as a solo dance, it is generally characterized by a stiff upper body and the quick and precise movements of the feet. Couples also dance with other couples, in a manner similar to a square dance; these dances are called "country sets" and are danced throughout Ireland with many regional variations. Larger groups of four, six, eight, or more people can dance traditional céilí dances, in which the steps are prescribed. Some of the ceili dances are named after the traditional Irish tunes to which they are danced; others can be done.
Folk dance - Folk dance The following dance categories are closely related to each other: Folk dance Ethnic dance Traditional dance Country dance Street dance See List of dances sorted by ethnicity for a list of specific ethnic,folk, traditional, and regional dances sorted by ethnicity or country. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Folk dance 2 Ethnic/Traditional dance 3 Country dance 4 Street dance Folk dance Folk dance is a term used to encompass a large number of dances that tend to share the following attributes: They were originally danced in about the 19th century or earlier (or are, in any case, not currently copyrighted); Their performance is dominated by an inherited tradition rather than by innovation; They were danced by common people, regardless of whether they were danced by any.
Dance music - Dance music Dance music is music composed, played, or both, specifically for social dancing, and in principle, dance music includes a huge variety of music, from rock and roll to country music. As of the late 1970s, however, and particularly for people who frequent nightclubs, the term "dance music" has come to more specifically refer to electronic music offshoots of rock and roll such as disco, house, techno and trance. See also: hip hop, breakdancing, funk, drum and bass, reggae, and electronic music. Dance music in the traditional sense, are musical forms supposed to serve as an accompaniment for a dance (at least formally). It can be either the whole musical piece or a part of a larger musical arrangement. Many cultures have their own form.
Circle dance - Circle dance Circle dance is the most common name for a style of dance usually done in a circle without partners to musical accompaniment. It became popular in the alternative, feminist and new age aspects of western culture in the 1980 and 1990s and continues today. The circle is probably the oldest known dance formation. It is found in the dances of many cultures, such as African, Eastern European, Irish Celtic, South American and North American Indian. Circle Dance mixes traditional folk dances, mainly from European or Near-Eastern sources, with recently choreographed ones to a variety of music ancient and modern. Dances can be slow and meditative, or lively and energetic. Some have a symbolism or spiritual content derived from various traditions, some are just fun to.
Square dance - Square dance Square dance is a folk dance for four couples that was first described in 17th century England, but which has become associated with the United States of America due to its historic development in that country. The various movements used in square dancing are based on traditional folk dances of the various people who migrated to the USA. Some of these dances include Morris dance, English Country Dance, and the quadrille. Square dancing is enjoyed by people around the world, and people around the world are involved in the continuing development of this dance. The movements are prompted by calls. The calls are put together by a caller to form a dance. The caller leads but does not participate in the dance. There are two.
List of Irish people - List of Irish people This is a list of famous Irish people. It covers people who come from the island of Ireland, which includes people from both Irish territories, the Republic of Ireland and the province of Northern Ireland. people of Irish descent who identified themselves or involved themselves with Ireland (eg, Eamon de Valera, Princess Grace of Monaco), people who chose to adopt an Irish identity or Irish citizenship (eg, Daniel Day-Lewis). Some people born on the island of Ireland, particularly from Northern Ireland, also regard themselves as British. Perhaps because of the extent of Irish emigration, talented people of Irish birth or descent have become known throughout the world. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Art 1.1 Architecture 1.2 Actors 1.3 Music 1.4 Dance 1.5 Writing.
List of Irish television channels - List of Irish television channels Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Terrestrial Stations 2 Free Digital Channels 3 Satellite & Cable Terrestrial Stations These channels are available as free-to-air analogue broadcasts, as well as on digital, satellite and cable systems. Radio Telifís Éireann - the independent state broadcasting company RTÉ1 - main RTÉ national station Network 2 - secondary RTÉ national station (previously called RTÉ2) TG4 - National Irish Language station Independent terrestrial station TV3 - independent commercial broadcaster Foreign analogue stations available in most of Ireland BBC ONE/BBC Northern Ireland BBC TWO ITV1/Ulster Television Channel 4 Free Digital Channels Most of these channels are available on the Freeview service as well as in basic digital cable and satellite packages. QVC Sky News Sky Sports News Sky Travel.
List of dances - of specific dances. There may also be listed dances which could either be considered a specific dance or a family of related dances, depending on your perspective. For example ballet, ballroom dance and folk dance can be considered a single dance style or a family of related dances. The purpose of the page is to have as complete an index as possible. ;Specific dances are listed below in alphabetical order, and only should be listed one time. Variants of a specific dance should be listed as indented items, and not as separate items. For example Waltz has several variants. This makes the list easier to read, and avoids redundant links. See following for categorized lists: List of dance style categories List of dances sorted by ethnicity List of novelty/fad dances Dances.
List of dances sorted by ethnicity - and "Hasapikos" Baidoushka Ballos Fysouni Gaida Hasapiko (Chasapiko, Khasapiko, Hassapiko) Sirtaki (Syrtaki, Zorba) Horos Ikariotikos Kalymnikos Karagouna Karsilamas (Antikrystos, Marinella) Kerkyraikos (Rouga) Khoros Kleistos Koftos Kotsari Lerikos Leventikos Makedonia (dance) Menousis Omal (Lemona, Dipat) Pentozalis Pidikhtos Kastrinos Pidikhtos Malevyziotiko Pidikhtos Pogonisios Serra Sousta Bulgarian Sousta Cretan Sousta Dodecanese Sousta Macedonian Sousta Sta tria Svarniara Syrtos (Syrto, Sirto) Syrto Kritikos (Cretan Syrtos) Syrto Politikos (Syrtos of The City, i.e., of Constantinople) Kalamatianos Syrtos (Mainland Syrtos) Kapoutzidon Syrtos Nisiotiko Syrtos (Island Syrtos) Silyvriano Syrtos Sirtaki (Syrtaki, Zorba) Xaniotiko Syrto Tik Trata Tsakonikos Tsamiko Tsifteteli (Tsifte-Teli) Tsirigotikos (Kythiraikos, Bourdaris) Yerakina Zeibekiko (Zembekiko, Zeybek, Zembetiko) Zonaradiko Crete, Greece Cretan Sousta Cretan Syrtos (Syrto Kritikos) Kastrinos Pendozalis Siganos Hungarian Czardas (Csardas) Verbunkos (XVIII century dance & music genre) Irish dance Israeli Horah Italian Tarantella Sardinia Ballu.
Jig - language or Italian language forms gigue or giga) is a folk dance type as well as the accompanying dance tune type, popular in Ireland and Scotland, and particularly associated with the former. It is a popular tune-type within the Irish dance music tradition, second only to the reel. It is transcribed in a time which is a multiple of three, 12/8 time for a 'single jig' or 'slide', 6/8 time for a 'double jig', and 9/8 time for a 'slip jig'. The most common structure is two 8-bar parts, each of which is repeated (AABB). There are a number of tunes with three or more parts, and some in which the length of one or more parts varies from 8 bars. As with most other types of dance tunes in Irish.
John Cage - he took lessons in composition from Richard Buhlig, Henry Cowell, Adolf Weiss, and, famously, Arnold Schoenberg whom he "literally worshipped." Schoenberg told Cage he would tutor him for free on the condition he "devoted his life to music." Cage readily agreed, but stopped lessons after two years when it became clear to him that he had "no feeling for harmony." Cage began to experiment with percussion instruments and non-instruments and gradually came to replace harmony as the basis of his music with rhythm. More generally, he structured pieces according to the duration of sections. He saw a precedent in this in the music of Anton Webern to some extent, but especially in the music of Erik Satie, one of his favourite composers. In the late 1930s, he went to the Cornish.
U2 (band) - U2 (band) U2 is an Irish rock band featuring Bono (Paul David Hewson) on vocals and sometimes guitar, The Edge (David Howell Evans) on guitar and sometimes pianos, vocals, and bass, Adam Clayton on bass and sometimes guitar, and Larry Mullen, Jr on drums. The band is politically active in human rights causes. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 History 1.1 Discography 1.2 External Links History U2 was formed in Dublin in the Autumn of 1976. 14 year old Larry Mullen, Jr posted a note on his secondary school bulletin board seeking musicians for a new band. The response that followed that note resulted in a 5 piece band, known at the time as Feedback, with Mullen on drums, Adam Clayton on bass guitar, Paul Hewson on vocals, Dave Evans.
Galliano - is packaged in a distinctive tall bottle shaped roughly like the Eiffel Tower. Because the flavor is so exotic and unusual, it can be difficult to mix with other liqueurs. It is often used to make Harvey Wallbangers. Interestingly, it makes a delicious combination with triple sec, irish cream and milk in a variant of the Screaming Orgasm. Galliano is also the name of a 1990s UK jazz funk/dance band..
Gaelic Athletic Association - or GAA, is an organisation which is mostly focussed on promoting Irish sports, such as hurling, gaelic football, rounders and camogie, though it also promotes Irish music, dance and the Irish language. The man directly invloved in the founding of the G.A.A was a Clareman, Michael Cusack. Born in 1847 Cusack went on to pursue a career as a teacher in Blackrock College. In 1877 he set up his own cramming school, the Civil Service Academy, to prepare students for examinations into the British Civil Service. 'Cusack's Academy' as it was known and its pupils did extremely well with the result that the numbers attending it soared. Pupils at the Academy were incouraged to get involved in all forms of physical exercise and, as a language enthusiast, Cusack was troubled by.
Goddess - What we may see as gentle and beautiful Nature has been to struggling farmers a coldhearted, ungiving goddess. However, even if we stand back and debunk the romantic wing of Goddess Spirituality, it still shows considerable social influence, and its revaluing of an assertive compassion that recognises a world wide Web of Life (sic) can be welcome to the romantic heart and the scholarly brain alike. The connections between feminism and ecology are not new, and are well reflected in Goddess Spirituality (although it is only in some parts feminist and should not be assumed completely so). Men of the Goddess The position of men within Goddess Spirituality is only recently beginning to be publicly discussed, but this question is emerging as a debate of great interest. So much work has.
Gregory Peck - was the son of a Missouri mother and a chemist called Gregory Peck, whose mother, Catherine Ashe, was an Irish immigrant from County Kerry. Catherine Ashe was related to the Irish patriot Thomas Ashe, who took part in the Irish Easter Rising in the year of Peck's birth and who died on hunger strike in 1917. Peck's parents divorced when he was five and he was reared by his grandmother. Peck was sent to a Roman Catholic military school in Los Angeles at the age of 10. When he graduated, he went to San Diego State University, but dropped out a year later. For a short time, he took a job driving a truck for an oil company. In 1936, he enrolled as a pre-med student at the University of California,.
Finnegan's Wake - perhaps in the 1850's and is one of several mock-Irish stage songs that were very popular in 19th-century American vaudeville. It is famous for being parodied in James Joyce's masterwork, Finnegans Wake, where the comic resurrection becomes symbolic of a universal cycle of life. Joyce removed the apostrophe in the title to assert an active process in which a multiplicity of "Finnegans," that is, all of us, wake, that is, arise after falling. Finnegan's Wake Tim Finnegan lived in Walkin Street A gentleman Irish, mighty odd; He'd a beautiful tongue so rich and sweet And to rise in the world he carried a hod. Now Tim had a sort o' the tipplin' way With a love of the liquor poor Tim was born And to help him on with his work.
Five Points, Manhattan - certain areas of London's East End vied with it in sheer population density, disease, infant and child mortality, unemployment, violent crime and other classic ills of the destitute. But to characterize Five Points as a pure wasteland would be misleading, for it had a certain rough vibrancy that gave rise to some of the more admirable aspects of modern American life. It was the original melting pot, at first consisting primarily of newly emancipated African Americans and newly immigrated Irish. The confluence of African, Irish, Anglo and, later, Jewish and Italian culture, seen first in Five Points, would be an important leavening in the growth of America. The fusion of the Irish jig with the basically African shuffle gave rise in the short term to Tap Dance and in the long.
Donegal fiddle tradition - Donegal fiddle tradition A kind of Irish traditional music. A tradition, or set of coexisting traditions, at least 200 years old, of playing the fiddle in County Donegal, Ireland. Donegal is a remote, partly Irish-speaking county in northwestern Ireland and one of the three counties of the northern Irish province of Ulster that are part of the Republic of Ireland. Donegal's tradition of fiddle playing has completely eclipsed other instrumental traditions in the county. There is a so-called Donegal style of fiddling, though one also might plausibly identify several different, but related, styles within the county. To the extent to which there is one common style in the county, it is characterized by a rapid pace; a tendency to be more straight-ahead (unswung) in the playing of the fast dance.
Donald O'Connor - the talking mule. He is still best known for his performance in the movie musical Singing in the Rain. O'Connor was born into an Irish immigrant family of vaudeville entertainers. As a toddler, he and his sister were involved in a road accident, which resulted in her death. His father died of a heart attack only a few weeks later. Yet it was as a comedy actor and a song-and-dance man that he became famous. His boyish looks did not allow him to take a romantic lead, except when appearing with a bigger star such as Ethel Merman (in Call Me Madam) or Bing Crosby (with whom he appeared in his first film at the age of eleven). However, he did have a separate Hollywood career in the late 1930s, in.
