Six month contracts available for Orlando, Florida, USA
Most professional dancers dream of having the opportunity to dance at a Disney property. And, that dream is about to come true for a few talented Irish Dancers.
Raglan Road at Walt Disney World, Florida, USA is seeking Irish Dancers to grace the stage at one of the world’s most successful authentic Irish Pub & Restaurants. The pub offers an award winning food, beverage, entertainment and retail experience for guests in the entertainment capital of the U.S.A.
Raglan Road is seeking multi-talented professional Irish Dancers to join their spectacular Irish Dance Show in Walt Disney World, Florida.
The Irish Show is a live spectacle of Irish music and dance featuring a talented mix of performers. The show was was produced in Ireland and brought to Raglan Road, directed by David Hayes (Riverdance, “The Voice” Ireland edition).
The show runs daily from 4.30pm - 10pm & from 12pm at the weekend.
...IN CHICAGO, WITH ADDITIONAL PREMIERS IN NEW YORK AND PHILADELPHIA
AUDITIONS OPEN FOR A SUMMER TOUR OF JAPAN AND BEYOND!
World Premieres to include ‘Listen’ by Irish national treasure, Colin Dunne
Photo by Lois Greenfield
Trinity Irish Dance Company (TIDC) is bringing its unique form of progressive Irish Dance to prestigious venues across the US this spring, including Chicago’s Auditorium Theatre on February 29th, New York’s Queens Theatre March 7th and 8th, and Philadelphia’s Annenberg Center March 27th and 28th. Called “impossibly complex” by The New York Times and “sophisticated and commanding” by the Los Angeles Times, this company of elite performing artists from across North America presents both classic and groundbreaking world premiere works.
Founded in 1990, TIDC is a contemporary, Irish-American performing arts company that pushes the boundaries of Irish Dance in an integrity-filled way without losing touch with its rich traditions. Through a unique blend of uncompromising power and grace, TIDC sends a clear message of female empowerment, consistently presenting males and females on equal footing.
“The women of TIDC don’t only get to make noise,” says Associate Artistic Director Chelsea Hoy. “We’re expected to make noise.”
Riverdance Star Amymae Dolan Shares TIPS for Dancers on how to NAIL your stage presence!
Stage presence can be a mysterious thing, sometimes we watch a dancer walk on stage and we are immediately captivated, sometimes not realising why.
A dancer’s stage presence draws your eye and makes you excited to watch them; it also makes it very hard as an audience member to stop watching them!
When deciding to write about stage presence it got me thinking about specific dancers I adored observing, what had they all in common? Somehow by only watching them on stage I felt like I had an insight into their own individual personality and that I believe is one of the most important aspects of stage presence - allowing your unique identity to come through in your performance.
We often question whether stage presence is inherited, an innate power which we would all love.
In some ways this is true some dancers seem to naturally ooze a presence on stage whilst others must spend time developing and perfecting it. The good news is that, finding your individual stage presence when you don’t think you have one is very possible. One of the main aspects in which we can all, always grow is CONFIDENCE.
Pictured: Amymae during her competitive dancing days
As dancers, a lot of us have a great confidence in our every day lives. Dancing in-front of audiences and competing often helps us grow a confidence which has so many benefits to our lives outside of dance. However, put us in a large group of dancers and those with a strong belief in themselves and a greater confidence will stand out from the crowd.
There are many things we can do in our training to develop our confidence.
First being very comfortable with your choreography and believing you worked your very hardest. Also, knowing you have a strong stamina to get through an entire dance at the best of your ability and having adequately prepared your mindset so that nerves as well as other factors will not effect your confidence are all important in ultimately having a strong stage presence.
