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Date Posted: 08:20:48 10/21/24 Mon
Author: Long time parent
Subject: I'll try to respond to all your Q's
In reply to: Some questions on judging … 's message, "Mom of a competition dancer here (contemporary and jazz mostly). New to ID." on 07:09:06 10/21/24 Mon

I'm familiar with this concept of recorded feedback from experiences with other dance style competitions and it does not have a place in Irish dancing. Irish dancing is a lot more technically stringent than most other forms, so your dancers should be getting that feedback from their teachers even more so than at competitions. Nobody loses at a feis because their toe wasn't pointed 47 seconds into the dance, it's likely due to consistent issues throughout their dancing, which the judges will comment on and the teacher will confirm. We have always found that it's extremely rare that our dancer gets any different feedback from a feis than she's already gotten from the teacher.

Having said that, feedback at feises is very helpful. Even if the judge just comments on things like turnout, cross, lift, arching, posture, timing, rhythm -- all of those are basic hallmarks that your dancer will absolutely be hearing from their teacher. So if the judges continue to comment on them, they continue to need work.

I've never had a judge comment on my dancer's choreography. That's unique to each teacher and each school, and the judging is on the performance and execution.

Also, stretching and conditioning in our experience has been incorporated into class from time to time, but generally it's the dancer's responsibility, particularly in the more advanced levels, to warm up and stretch prior to class beginning.

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