Step Dancing From 1963 

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Enchanting. ⭐☘️⭐ Especially together. 💚☘️💚 Beautiful. ❤️💙❤️

I know. I just searched for TRADITIONAL Irish dance and almost all of the ones that came up were Riverdance, Lord of the Dance, and later. I enjoy that too but it's not traditional

Simon's Cowell'd it. @@bunnybgood411

I'm sure he has watched this clip. I met Michael & his wife in a pub in Dublin a few years ago..Very nice couple no airs or graces.

I also recommend you watch Michael Tubridy & his wife Celine dancing The Blackbird in the old style..It's up here on YT..

Best comment here. 😊

@freethoughtmusic _The same here in Ireland...Notice also how beautiful the music is...not played at breakneck speed..but every note as clear as a mountain stream...ℳ∁_

@@clarebannerman Exactly.....I don't attend any festivals anymore, way too many otherwise gifted young players all racing along at breakneck speed to impress onlookers tourists and those who don't know anything about Irish Traditional music......The old music was rarely ever played that way, maybe wrong to term any of it now as 'traditional' because, apart from the scores, no, it isn't....

@freethoughtmusic well explained. I haven't gone to any dance festivals in recent years, but I hadn't thought about the fact that they are most likely to reflect the dumming down of music, art etc, though now awareness is growing at last, that authentic is pure, simpler, higher quality, better. Like origal nature based crafts and Cornish hedge "laying, making" training, dry stone walls of Yorkshire. My aunt ran Cork dance school when Jean Moriarty gave it to her and another friend colleague

Coleman and Morrison and their contemporaries actually played faster than 90% of modern players if we are talking about beats per minute. So, that's pure nonsense. What might be different is the phrasing.

The ease in the playing and in the steps. No speeded up dis ease. True tradition.

I do

Hornpipes played as they should be, a distinct slow beat that times correctly with the dancers feet. It has become a modern 'fashion' to play them at ridiculous speeds to impress listeners....If you listen to any of the 'old time' players of Ireland, none of them hurried any tune, there was great attention paid to timing and inflexion.

I agree. Mind you if it hadn't been for those LOTD vhs' I'd never have picked up or studied traditional music.

This has not gone away. You just have a choice now.

@@martinfreekie7659 hi please can I ask if this is from a dance school, Claude Jean Moriarty?

The real deal

Metal taps were & are not allowed by his organisation (CLRG) but we had extra pieces of leather, often with nails/tacks in, on the front of the sole to aid sound at that time. Later replaced by fibre glass or synthetic taps.

Probably Michael Flatley, who has perverted Irish step dancing beyond repair

Keyboard warriors aka idiots.....the internet is full of them and on every site.....Watched a very elderly gentleman playing a lovely tango on an ancient piano accordion, and 47 thumbed it down?!

Elena KB, only an eeejit would have voted down. Envy.

Go raibh maith agat...I need all the candles I can get...M

I say that man dancing is well dead now

@ Francie Stokes. No, he’s still alive. He’s an adjudicator and examiner with the Irish Dancing Commission. He was also a Doctor of Marine Biology I think based at University College Cork.

@@rincemor People looked older in those days, they really did

Dzisiejszy taniec to "gimnastykowanie sie " przy muzyce.Tance - polamance !

I love this type of music and dance! I have for as long as I can remember! Never could I find it boring!

What dvd is that?

The more experienced you get in dancing, the easier you adapt to a stage's 'feel'. In competitions, many dancers grab the opportunity to dance a bit on the stage during a break (if permitted of course) to just get a feel of the stage, which can help them when they are up for their competition. And then you have understanding the rhythm. For me, dancing hornpipes was a real struggle in the beginning, although my teacher did say I understood the rhythm. But as long as I don't 'feel/understand' it, I'm lost. But once I get it right, I seem to be very good at it (one of the girls in class nearly melted in front of me once when my teacher was in doubt which new dance to teach me and she really recommended the Job of Journeywork (yes, I know, that's not a hornpipe but a traditional set, but it has a very hornpipey-feel to it)

My, that is a strange custom. Who came up with the idea, "let's pretend we have no arms!" :-P Now I could be mistaken, but I believe that's me Uncle Leo playin'the fiddle.

Lovely dancing, the way it should be. Well done!!

watching this clip is great . john is a nice dancer but when you watch Donncha O Muimhneacháin all so from cork around the same time as john Cullinane the early 1960th donncha is a really great dancer you cant can't compare the two . and his dancing with celine hession is a master class. donncha rip was really ahead of his time . just watching him dance made me want to dance like him .

Yes

Watched a riverdance vid recently where the women dancers ripped off their clothes down to what appeared to be bikinis, absolutely asinine, low class.

Don't know the fiddler, but the tune is Liverpool Hornpipe.