stepdancers
Irish jig performers
Stepdancers are performers of stepdance—a style of dancing where the footwork creates the primary visual and rhythmic interest while the upper body remains relatively still.
The term most often refers to Irish stepdancers, whose rapid, precise foot movements produce percussive sounds against the floor: The stepdancers competed at the feis.
Of the Emerald Isle
- CelticOf Irish-Welsh descent
- AppalachianEastern U.S. mountain region
- cloggingObstructing a passage
- heritageInherited cultural legacy
folklore · culture · customs · Riverdance · jig · reel · hornpipe · ancestry
Rhythmic pulse or strike
- tempoRate of musical performance
- jigSpirited folk dance
- reelWinding cylinder or dance
- hornpipeSailor's traditional dance
fiddle · accordion · bodhrán · percussion · pulse · cadence · syncopation · measure
Skilled lower-limb movement
- rhythmPatterned stress and silence
- timingArt of choosing moments
- precisionAccuracy of measurement
- synchronizationAligning timing across systems
coordination · balance · agility · execution · discipline · practice · control · grace
Traveling group of performers
- ensembleUnified group or outfit
- stageRaised performance platform
- costumesClothes for assuming roles
- competitionStruggle for supremacy
show · Riverdance · applause · spotlight · formation · tableau · finale · debut
Regular sequence of actions
- formationCreation or arrangement
- sequenceOrdered succession of elements
- compositionArranged elements forming whole
- stagingPreparing for presentation
motif · transition · interpretation · spatial · canon · synchronization · phrasing · blocking
Irish
Of the Emerald Isle
- CelticOf Irish-Welsh descent
- AppalachianEastern U.S. mountain region
- cloggingObstructing a passage
heritage · folklore · culture · customs · Riverdance · jig · reel · hornpipe · ancestry · oral-history
beat
Rhythmic pulse or strike
hornpipe · fiddle · accordion · bodhrán · percussion · pulse · cadence · syncopation · measure · timing
footwork
Skilled lower-limb movement
synchronization · coordination · balance · agility · execution · discipline · practice · control · grace · dexterity
troupe
Traveling group of performers
competition · show · Riverdance · applause · spotlight · formation · tableau · finale · debut · curtain
routine
Regular sequence of actions
- formationCreation or arrangement
- sequenceOrdered succession of elements
- compositionArranged elements forming whole
staging · motif · transition · interpretation · spatial · canon · synchronization · phrasing · blocking · improvisation
- Irish stepdanceTraditional Celtic percussive footwork