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| Announcements: Irish Dance Idaho is honored to dance with Leahy! (click on above link for more info)  Morrison Center, March 13th at 8pm!!!!!! Click HERE to purchase tickets. |
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Few Up-coming Performances: March - Whew! Waaay too many to list. 22 at this point! We will list our March performances soon! (Here's one for starters!) March 1st - Mountain Home Air Force Base - We LOVE and appreciate our Military! Thank you for all you do!!!!! |
Irish Dance Idaho Has delighted audiences throughout our beautiful states of Idaho and Oregon for the past 5 years. Under the
direction of Rebecca Ingram TCRE ** dancers are taught the correct, difficult techniques needed to master the challenge of Irish Step
and ceili dancing. With intense weekly practice,
both boys and girls,
work hard to master this challenging, athletic art form,
while learning performance skills, commitment, and teamwork as their talents develop.
The students and teachers of Irish Dance Idaho maintain a grueling schedule, providing a power-packed
performance demonstrating both traditional and show style pieces for appreciative audiences. The IDI dancers showcase
their talents at Festivals, Highland Games, Markets, Fine Arts Events, Community, Corporate, and Cultural Events, Schools,
Retirement Centers, Weddings,
Private Parties,
and Much More. Irish Dance Idaho even deviated a bit from Irish Step to dance Thriller on Harrison Bouldevard last Halloween,
made up by a Hollywood Make up artist!! Very fun!
Irish
Dance Idaho
Remains one of the finest Irish Dance troupes in the
NorthWestern
United States. Focused solely on the performing arts, with a single,voluntary competition held during the year, just to keep their skills sharp. The Irish Dance Idaho dancers
can be found reeling and jigging throughout the Northwestern states.
Irish Dance Idaho is centrally located in the
Treasure Valley,
Servicing Boise, Eagle, Meridian, Kuna, Nampa, Caldwell, Star, Mountain Home, and even Emmett
where dancers travel at least weekly for quality technique, ceili and team instruction.
And for those choosing to participate in performances, you never know quite where they will end up!
Boise? Eagle? Nampa? Caldwell? Emmett? Malad? Mountain Home? Twin Falls? Sun Valley? Burley?
Huntington? Weiser? Murphy? Dayville? Baker City, OR..........
Just try to keep up with the IDI Dancers and their constantly demanding performance schedule!
CONGRATULATIONS!
to our dancers for their Feis scores in Open Championships, Pre-lims, Prizewinner, Novice, and
Beginner Categories and for qualifying to compete in the prestigious
Silver Crown!!!!!
**Rebecca has the honor to be certified through the Association of American Irish Dance Teachers, specifically
through Kenn Brennan on the East Coast. AAIDT - partnered with two world wide organizations -
WIDA based in mainland Europe, and Cumann Rince Dea Mheasa to form the largest independent
Irish dance organization in the world. She now sits on the national board as a co-chair and is the
Northwest Representative. The Irish Dance Idaho dancers had the rare honor to be invited to compete in
Worlds in Germany. But the pinnacle of Irish Step to Irish Dance Idaho is sharing and building community throughout our beautiful,
and appreciative NorthWest!
We have open registration for classes, believing that each individual dancer should learn at his or her own pace.
Register when YOU are ready!
Register for Classes Here
Then Contact us at info@irishdanceidaho.com for specific class information.
Then Contact us at info@irishdanceidaho.com for specific class information.
Class times:
Irish dance can be such a great experience. At IDI, we value each dancer, and strive for excellence.
Team participation, practice, and striving to reach individual and team goals can increase a dancer's self-worth
and help them with their balance, rhythm, and even help them to focus and remember better. There are opportunities
to meet people, to learn traditional dancing carefully preserved from a different culture, combined
with modern Riverdance style.
Student's ages range from 4 to our awesome Adults. The Dancers work hard, and it shows!
Tuesday-
* 4:30 - Prizewinner Prep
* 5:30 - Prizewinner
* 6:30 - Gold Teams
* 7:30 - Pre-liminary Championship Prep
* 8:00 - Pre-lim/Open Championship
* 8:30 - Open Championship
Thursday-
* 4:15pm - Beginner 1 (Younger - 10 and under - unless otherwise specified by the teachers)
* 5:00 - Advanced Beginner (and older beginner dancers)
* 6:00 - Treasures Team
* 7:00 - Novice (Beginner Hard shoe)
* 8:00 - Adult Class
(Saturdays may be added as needed for performance practice and performances.)
Each and every dancer has the opportunity to share their talents through performance! We try to keep our costs
as low as possible to allow families to participate. (Contact us for class pricing). We also have returned to a more traditional,
less fussy costume, rather than the wigs, heavy make up, and very expensive dresses, etc.
We do not require our parents or dancers to do any type of fund-raising,
or to be involved in running the school in any way.
We do encourage active participation in performance because it always enhances the dancer's dancing abilities and
helps them in many ways. But we do not require performance commitment,unless the dancer participates in group dances
on either the Gold Team or Treasures Team.
Studio Directions:
- 1909 Wildwood Street, Boise, Idaho 83713 - - Located in the popular Steelwood Complex.
Irish Dance Idaho owns this studio.
If you are interested in leasing space from us, Contact us with the information below and we will send
you the available times.
Our studio is ideal for aerobics, yoga, pilates, karate, dance, jumproping, etc.
We have a unique, highly specialized custom floor made specifically for
protecting dancer's joints.
Absorbing a great amount of impact, our floor protects the dancer's joints from damage as they practice long hours.
INSTRUCTIONS TO DUPLICATE OUR FLOOR?
Coming Soon
Comments from some of our Friends:
"Irish Dance Idaho is one of the most talented entertainment groups in the Northwest! I have worked with Shawna and Chris Ingram
for the last two years and I always enjoy working with all the dancers. Their performances are always "high energy"
and the dancers always look like they are having fun. I recommend attending one of their concerts/performances
for a great evening out for the entire family."
James Brown - Event Coordinator
Nampa Civic Center
"Irish Dance Idaho is filled with energy, excitement and a wonderful artistic flair that is fun for all ages to enjoy.
They represent some of the finest folk artists in Idaho. Every time they perform at the Nampa Civic Center they are a huge highlight."
Bill Stephan - Former Director of the
Nampa Civic Center
Media Info:
You are welcome to use any information or photos on this page to describe us. Please be sure to use our entire name,
"Irish Dance Idaho"
when referring to our dancers. You may also use "IDI Dancers" or refer to our dancers specifically by their team.
If you need something specific,
please
contact us.
Thank you for your cooperation.
LEAHY!
Leahy with Guest appearance by Irish Dance Idaho
Celtic Music and Dance
March 13th @ 8:00 PM
Morrison Center
About Leahy:
A family. A musical group of brothers and sisters, a sound, a style of music, a way of life, a volcanic explosion of talent and energy, intense emotion,
and feral passion.
Leahy is a Canadian powerhouse of eight musical brothers and sisters who have been playing together their entire lives. The band's three acclaimed
CDs-Leahy, Lakefield, and In All Things-have world-wide sales of over half a million copies.
All that audiences need to do to understand the style that has come to be known as "Leahy" is look at their awards-Junos for Best New Group,
Best Country Group, and Best Instrumental Album, the most played folk/roots song in Canada in 2004 and the Socan award for Folk/Jazz
instrumentalist the following year. Their self-titled album rose to number four on the Billboard world music charts and found its
way onto the soundtrack of the award-winning movie The Hanging Garden. On stage Leahy brought 175 audiences
to their feet when they opened for pop-star Shania Twain on her inaugural world tour.
Click here for video
Irish Dance Idaho Past Performances:
We're only listing a few or this would make our webpage even longer than it already is! :)
Boise Music Week, WorldFest, World Special Olympics Invitational and the actual event (We're the ones that danced so hard the propane heater fell over and nearly caught the stage on fire......), Leukemia Foundation Light the Night, Highland and Celtic Games from Boise to Baker City, OR to Twin Falls to Huntington, OR, Northwest Nazarene Annual Idaho Christmas Show, Festivals from Malad to Emmett to Murphy to Kuna to Sun Valley to Weiser for the National Old Time Fiddle Festival......., Elementary Schools, both private and public throughout Idaho, Retirement Centers throughout Idaho and Oregon.............., Churches from St. Michael's to Cathedral of the Rockies and LDS church functions...........
Coming up - LEAHY at the Morrison Center!
Sponsors:
This is a new area for Irish Dance Idaho. We have been asked to have an area for sponsors. If you would like to donate to us,
please make your donation to Irish Dance Idaho. Contact us by email with the details. I will direct you from there.
This helps to offset some of our costs to allow us to continue to have a quality program. Every donation is appreciated and put to good use!
Thank you to our fine sponsors who have already donated to our program! If you would like mention in our annual recital program
or on our website, please contact us. We wish to offer our sincerest gratitude to all of you.
Irish Dance Idaho parents and families are not required to do any type of fund-raising! Period!
Areas of Specific Donation:
- Annual Show - donation goes toward providing programs to the audience, rental of the facility, and media pre-show advertisements
- Travel expenses - Irish Dance Idaho does extensive traveling for performance. This is often cost prohibitive for the families. If you would like to donate
- specifically to offset that cost, please let us know.
- Costumes - sponsorship in this area helps to offset the cost of shoes and costume requirements. We try to keep the cost low for families, while still
- providing a quality experience.
- Dance Lessons - with the economy, dance lessons are becoming more and more difficult to budget. If you would like to help off-set the cost of lessons,
- you may specifically do so.
generous donation.
**Thank you to so many for your generosity! It is very much appreciated!!!**
Links to some of our Favorite People and Places!
Zalpix, Eastern OR Celtic Society, Canyon County Scots, Nampa Civic Center, Corrs Irish Shoes
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