Butterflly demonstration

Butterflies in Irish dancing.

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• irish
• dance
• softshoe
• butterfly

[luv2jig]

Sure! I can't believe you can hear my ankles cracking, though...and I love how I almost fall over at one point :)

[ElizabethTara]

Irish dance has different terminology. To you this may not be a butterfly but to many people it is.

[Kriesbach1986]

I think butterflies are one of the hardest things in irish dancing.

[roxanacmk]

You make it look so effortless! :D

[LeaLovesMakeup95]

my dance teacher calls it and anashicod...... im 100% sure i spelt that wrong haha

[schmeeling]

These aren't butterflies you're supposed to move the whole of your legs and point your toes keeping your feet in the same position. Watch Jean Butler do it.

[BalletFreak1122]

@Kriesbach1986 Really i think double downs are the hardest! hehehe but thats just me!

[reelburke]

@annelisethedancer913 Trebles and rallys are the same thing, or so I have learned (2 different schools, have shadowed at more). Perhaps you are thinking of tips (2 beats) rather than trebles, rallys, shuffles, etc. (3 beats). And there are definitely such things as quivers, bumps, and hits--your school just calls them something different, in all likelihood. Your comment was way less effective than ghilles4life's- at least she is open minded and her comment was very insightful.

[Sportfan58]

theres 2 ways to do a butterfly , thats only one way, the other is when Ex. the right foot is in front of the other the left foot comes in front, then back to the right in mid-air then u land with your right foot in front

[Sportfan58]

theres 2 ways to do a butterfly , thats only one way, the other is when Ex. the right foot is in front of the other the left foot comes in front, then back to the right in mid-air

[ghillies4life]

@annelisethedancer913 Hmm. Glad you have such a high opinion of yourself that you KNOW what I call things at my Irish dance school. And just a side-note. I have moved a lot and changed schools a lot. I have heard all of those terms from TCRGs and ADCRGs at accredited schools.

[TheMuffincake10]

I do my butterflies differently, but that was pretty cool