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Posted by Help Fairy on 8/21/2003, 4:16 am, in reply to "New to Irish Dancing" Scottish dancers wear short irish dance socks, NE of England dancers wear the long socks. Some schools allow bun wigs, others will not allow them, and other schools insist on the child having naturally curled hair. The only advise I can give you is make friends with a parent or two in the class, find out how your class is run, and follow suit, do not make waves as teachers are a funny bunch and take things very personnaly. Keep a diary of what medals your daughter gets, where and when, useful for when they go up the grades, must have more than 5 dancers in a competition group for a 1st to count, though win 3 a 1st 3 times in less than 5 groups (in a single year jan - jan) and it counts. Open dancers go back down to intermediate in January, unless they have won an Open Championship - confused? Lastly remember if you are not happy with how your daughters teacher works, you can change schools, however there is a 6 month "re-training" ban from competitions for any dancer who does this, there are exceptions to this ban but not many, so if you do change schools either March as your daughter willl be back in competition before the qualifiers (to young at present, but will get there) or July as there are not a lot of competitions between July & December
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Bad news first, you have to ask your daugters teacher about dresses, different schools have different rules: some the child must be all intermediate before they can have their own (Solo) dress, others 2 years before a dress can be bought, then again some schools say a dress can be bought straight away. Warning: there is talk that all Under 13 dancers who are beginner or primary must wear a basic skirt and t shirt or a class costume, this may become a rule in the near future, with a rule that no Under 13's wear make-up, this I personnaly beleive is a good rule as you see to many beauty pagent dancers in the under 7's (beginner - primary - intermediate - open). Dresses come in different standards, each for the different grade of dancing, some parents splash out a £1k on a open solo dress when their child is still a beginner, only problem is the child then looks out of place at a feis (pronouced fesh), and if the child suddenly decides they no longer want to dance you are stuck with the dress. Check out
www.dancinginceltic.com this site will give you a better understanding of dresses, but again check with your daughters teacher 1st
More bad news there is no one site that can help, however irish-dancer.co.uk? is very good and I have seen the templates for www.reeljigs.co.uk this looks like it has the makings of a good site in the near future. No book available as each group in aech region is different i.e.
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