Honouring the love for ceili dancing and our feis mascot, Caoimhe the Cat, Mara CERNAT ADRCG has created this brand-new four-hand jig specifically for Bucharest Feis.
The dance is accompanied by its own specific tune, an original piece composed by Doina Bora and Kristian Fišl, feis musicians.
All instructions and videos for teams, as well as the tune, are available for saving at this link. You can view the whole dance in the Youtube playlist below.
Fun fact: celebrating the strength, ingenuity and resilience of women throughout history and within our dance world, movements in Caoimhe’s Fancy revolve around the actions of the ladies of a team. You will notice this not only in who initiates a movement and gets to use their right hand/shoulder first, but also in the description provided for the dance.
The topic of this year’s Treble Reel Competition is Literary Cats.
Dancers are required to dance 16 bars down the line.
For all age groups, once the last person in the competition on all floors finishes their step and gets back into the line, all dancers will wait 8 bars of music, then perform together the basic treble reel step (1-1-3-1-1-3) twice (16 bars).
This last part is just for fun and will not affect their placements.
The competition is freestyle, so arm movements are allowed. Costumes and portrayals of the chosen literary cat character are also very much encouraged.
Share the feis experience with some of your family members!
The Family Ceili Special is also a freestyle competition.
The teams can consist of siblings, parents-children, husband-wife, cousins, grandchildren-grandparents etc. There must be at least one true dancer in the team (non-dancing family members may compete).
The competition is aimed at celebrating the strong family bonds within our schools and to give the opportunity of sharing a feis experience closely with dear family members.
Note: Teams are asked to perform 32 bars of music.