Good luck to our Scoil Rince Ni Riada dancers this Labor Day weekend 2017!
We want to wish Maeve the best of luck in her preliminary championship events this weekend at the Hidden Valley Feis.
We also want to wish Brittney and Victoria luck in their TCRG exams in LA this weekend.
You’ve all put in the work. Trust in yourself and in your practice. Our whole school is behind you! ❤️
Join us in wishing our hard workers the best of luck by commenting on this post!
Irish dance! Competition! Las Vegas! We’re only a week away from the Silver State Feis 2017 Event!
Can you believe it’s already been a year since our first time running the feis (for those of you unfamiliar to Irish dance, a feis is an Irish dance competition)? We can’t; it’s totally flown by.
We listened, and we read, all of your critiques and your compliments and are working to make this year better than the last. We will keep working to make this event better every single year!
We are at just over 200 entrants but there is still time to enter. Just head over to http://www.feisworx.com to register yourself and/or your dancer for our feis. And check out our feis page http://www.irishdancelasvegas.com/silverstatefeis for more information about our event, as well as some photos from last year’s feis. If you have any questions, our Facebook page is ON TOP of answering them. https://www.facebook.com/silverstatefeis/
It will be hot in Las Vegas, but not so hot-well, to us who live here, so make sure you drink plenty of water. Don’t forget that you need to have a car here. Uber works well but our hall is approximately 40 minutes from the airport. Check out our website and our social media pages for ideas of things to do around Las Vegas. This city is so much more than “sin city” and “the strip.” We have fabulous food, sites and sounds all over, and just outside, the city.
We are so looking forward to hosting you all again. We think you will have such a great time here. And best of luck to all the competitors. May the odds be in your favor. 🙂
Our incredible judging panel in 2016
Open Championship Awards. Congrats, Dancers!
Silver State Feis Update
We’re three weeks out from the big day and we’re going a little nuts making sure we have covered all of our bases. We did a site visit at the high school last week and we couldn’t have landed a more perfect spot. The layout is super convenient and spacious and the scenery around the school kind of makes you forget that you are in Las Vegas.
We have had a more normal “springtime” this year and, as of our visit last week, there was still a bunch of snow on Mt. Charleston. In fact, we had just gotten a lot of rain in the valley so the mountain got the snow. We’re hoping that, because the weather has been so mild, that we won’t have too hot of a weekend when everyone is here for the feis.
Our medals arrived yesterday. They are amazing! Our feis chair and designer did an incredible job. We showed them to our dancers yesterday and they all said they better step it into high gear so they can earn a few at the feis. If that’s not an endorsement, i don’t know what is.
This is our first year, and we know to expect a few bumps here and there. But we’re really excited. We hope that all of you really enjoy the day.
We are finalizing our food trucks for the day. Once those contracts have been signed, we will put out the name with tentative menus. Already confirmed is Sambalatte. They will be inside at the concessions selling coffee and tea on the day. They won’t have their whole menu available but should be able to satisfy your cravings.
We want to give the Cleary School of Irish Dance a big shout out for lending us stages and other supplies, as well as support, to help us make this first feis a reality.
Silver State Feis Team Choreography Special
The Christine O’Riada special is in honor of my mum. Most that know her or of her know that she made Irish dancing what it is in Kansas City and was a staple in the Irish community there. But before she ever found her way to Kansas City, she came over to America as a dancer with the Brendan Boyer Royal Show Band and actually spent a great deal of time in Las Vegas performing.
It didn’t matter how many dancers she had for a show, she knew how to put an entertaining show together. She was well known for it, and I believe that the four students of hers that became TCRGs, as well as others who have since formed or performed in Irish dance companies, have all followed in her footsteps. She wasn’t just good at coming up with crowd pleasing routines herself, she was excellent in encouraging her students to be a part of the process. Growing up, we didn’t have enough in any age group to do figure choreographies at the major competitions and we always wished we could compete some of our really fun performance numbers.
So here is the chance to do so. We have dancers coming from 40 different schools from the US and Canada and many of the schools have multiple dancers attending. The team special has no age restrictions and is changing to 3 and more dancers(instead of 4+).
It can be a dance that the dancers themselves made up specifically for this competition, but can also be teacher choreographed specifically for this competition, as well as a number that you do at performances around your area that you wish you had the opportunity to compete but can’t because you don’t have enough in the age group or it doesn’t fit with the competition rules.
Remember, this is a TEAM event. DO have some sort(s) of pattern(s), and interact with your teammates.
A Capella’s are great. Want hard and soft shoes in the number at the same time? Do it! Staying in either hard or light shoes are good, too. Have fun with this. Read the syllabus for more details on the competition itself or contact us if you have any questions.
Albertson’s Grocery is sponsoring our perpetual trophy and the winner will have their school name engraved on the trophy. The winner’s school gets to display the trophy for the year at their studio and then bring it back next year for the chance to win it again!
This is our main special and we would really love to make it our best and most prestigious award. Help us to make it an awesome event.
Good luck!
-Tara Reid
Feis Hotel Added!- Irish Dance Las Vegas
We’ve added the Comfort Inn to our feis hotels. It is about the same distance to our feis venue as Aliante. Lots of amenities nearby and easy highway access.
Our feis rate for a double room is $95 and, for a king bed with a pullout sofa, it’s $105. Our group block is under Irish Dance LV Booster Club.
Sign your dancer(s) up at feisworx.com and book a room at the Comfort Inn today!
Please let us know straight away if you have any issues and we’ll get it sorted.