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Date Posted: 21:59:05 10/21/24 Mon
Author: ADCRG
Subject: I'll add some from a judging perspective.
In reply to: Long time parent 's message, "I'll try to respond to all your Q's" on 08:20:48 10/21/24 Mon

Totally agree with everything you said.
Feedback should mainly come from your teacher, and judge feedback is simply confirmatory, or a way to track your progress on certain issues. I've judged "mainstream" dance forms before and it's very different. In a contemporary competition, I need to tell a dancer "I need you to extend through the movement right here *specific spot in music*. Give me more emotion coming to the end!"... In Irish dancing, although it is still highly subjective, there's less "artistry" to critique, so if I write "turn out" in my comments box, it means this dancer has an overall turn out problem that needs fixing... And they're going to need to fix it everywhere in their dance.
IF there's a choreography issue, especially at the higher levels, judges will get the information back to the teacher--but it's done in a judge/teacher or teacher/teacher way. For example, I judged a feis once where a school was debuting a new set dance, and the first two bars made NO sense, and none of the dancers could pull it off... In the judge lounge after, all the judges on championship panels were like... Can we figure out who the school is with that heinous set and let them know it needs to be changed? And so once everything was done and the results were released, we looked up the school, and gave the teacher the feedback, and it was very much appreciated... But the avenue for that wouldn't be via the dancer.
I think functionally, Irish dance has evolved into a sport. More so than mainstream dance, which is highly athletic and artistic, but doesn't function well as a structured sport. So that's why the difference. The purpose of a mainstream dance competition is to critique and develop artists, and purpose of a feis is to get a result.

I hope that helps from the other side of "the table"?

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