Welcome Dancers!

Below you will find a list of all the dances you will learn in the first few years of your dancing.

Click on the links at the bottom of the page to access video tutorials of your steps.

If you are brand new, practice your “Reels”.

BEGINNER AND ADVANCED BEGINNER SOFTSHOE

REELS:

1) “Lead Round, Side Down” or in other words, 8 leap overs in a circle, whip 7’s hop hop leap 23
2) “Hop 23” or “Hop Side Step”
3) “123 Point Kick Back”
4) “Point Point”

SLIP JIGS:

1) “Switch Switch Step Close”
2) “Hop leap 23, Hop leap 23”

LIGHT JIGS:

1) “Whip Kick Kick” or “Whip back, hop step close step”
2) “Together Out”
3) “Kick front, kick back, lift back 234”

SINGLE JIGS:

1) “Step and hop, step and hop”
2) “Hop 23” or “Hop Side Step”
3) “Point, Whip, Back, Hop”

BEGINNER HARDSHOE

TREBLE JIGS

1) “Tip Jump Step, Tip Jump Step….”
2) “Tip down back brush up hop, back brush up hop, back brush up hop back…”

HORNPIPES

1) “Tip step tip step brush up hop back 23, leap treble down, brush up hop back….”
2) “Tip step, tip step treble whip, tip down, toe back, heel step, brush up hop back…”

ST PATRICKS DAY

Beginner Set Dance “Brush and down x4 brush whip hop treble hop back, tip hop step, tip hop step…”