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Date Posted: Fri, Mar 02 2007, 1:29:08
Author: Lee in Darwin
Subject: Can anyone enlighten me as to 1) who all the Irish Dance Associations are (eg An Commision, AAIDT etc etc ).. 2) what are their differences, pros & cons? .. If your school is a member of one association and not another, do you know why the TC chose them over the another organisation? Can you be a member of more than one organisation? I really don't know much about who is who and what is what, but before our school commits to one or another of these associations I want to know that they can offer us the best support for our situation...we are remote from the rest of Austalia, and that makes us very remote indeed especially from the rest of the irish dance world. So I would love to hear your experiences and opinions on who is the best organisation and WHY or WHY NOT. You can email me privately if you prefer.
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funnily enough I have not had single response from this post - I figured that if you had the option of private email that I might get someone who was willing to give me the low down on what their own thoughts were. I am just looking to find the right organisation for my dancers at this point in time. Nothing more than that. You all seem very vocal in your opinion of what CLRG and feis vendors and feis organisers are doing wrong, I thought someone would have an opinion on which organisations are doing things right. -- Lee in Darwin - remote Top End Australia., Sat, Mar 03 2007, 14:40:59 [1]
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query -- Curious? (?), Sun, Mar 04 2007, 10:05:59 [1]
so you have an irish dancing school in darwin then? does it do the exam work? because i am eager to continue with the exam work and competitions and such..
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Yes, we have a school, we are just not affiliated with anyone as yet, hence the question in the first place. As we are at least 4000kms / miles from major cities where they hold feis we cannot travel to them. We are planning on rectifying the situation though...lol..email me if you want more specific info. -- Lee in Darwin, Sun, Mar 04 2007, 14:45:20 [1]
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Hi, with your permission I'm going to copy and post this on the main uk board, as there is more traffic there and someone may know more. I'd be very interested in the answers too. -- MOD, Sat, Mar 03 2007, 14:52:18 [1]
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Thanks MOD, I appreciate it. I am not trying to do anything more than find out what people think of their own organisation. Being that we can't just go to a feis or whatever and chat with people, this is our only option. People can email me privately if they prefer. -- Lee in Darwin, Sun, Mar 04 2007, 14:53:50 [1]
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The organisations are all basically the same and all have their own political issues. An Coimisiun (CLRG) are by far the largest (hence most complaints are about them) Most dancers start with them and after taking the TCRG join them. You cannot be a member of two but some allow cross organisation feis. CLRG don't. If your TC is qualified they will already be a member of a federation. If not they'll need to take the exam before you can join -- same for all groups, Sat, Mar 03 2007, 19:55:43 [1]
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Agree that there isn't much control on timing of potd feis. But come one this feis is the same disgrace every year, but it will continue as people keep going -- mum, Sat, Mar 03 2007, 21:34:42 [1]
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Different Organisations -- Teresa, Mon, Mar 05 2007, 14:10:16 [1]
OK: Basically the 2 main organisations are Commission and COmhdhail. To dance at either of their Feises you need to be a registered teacher with them. If you are registered with Commission, you cannot dance with Comhdhail and vice versa. Outside of these two organisations, there are several others, such as CRN, CDM, CAID, AAIDT, etc. For most of these you can affiliate to them, but they run on an Open Platform basis so that if you are say registered with CRN you can dance at a CDM Feis. But if you are registered with the above, or registered with no-one at all, you cannot compete at Commission or Comhdhail Feises. Technically, if you are Commission or Comhdhail, you might be able to compete at Open Platform Feises, but only with your teacher's permission and the Governing Bodies probably would not like it. There are a few Comhdhail teachers now in Australia, Grainne Leppard-Hamer (Ashgrove, Queensland) and Sanrda Mooney (Newport, NSW). Commission is very big in Australia.
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Thanks Teresa .. this is the sort of info I was looking for. Up until your answer everyone had told me that Australia had only Commission. Which is fine in the southern states with lots of schools, but my state has well, me. So who are we even going to compete against? That was the basis of my enquiry as our situation is rather unique in the overall view of where schools are. Will not be making any decisions any time soon, but just need to know my options so I can check it out completely as to what is best for my dancers at this point in time. -- Lee in Darwin, Tue, Mar 06 2007, 0:00:22 [1]
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Comhdhail in Australia -- Teresa, Tue, Mar 06 2007, 8:42:13 [1]
I can let you have contact details for the two Comhdhail Schools if you are interested.
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yes please.. it would be interesting to hear their reasons for why they went with Comhdhail over CLRG. Just want to know all my facts before I dive in...email me if you prefer not to leave details on a public board. -- Lee in Darwin, Wed, Mar 07 2007, 1:34:11 [1]
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Thanks to Teresa for supplying info, but I had to remove the msg as it gave personal information not allowed by voy, I have emailed your post to Lee instead, so she can contact them directly. -- Mod, Wed, Mar 07 2007, 14:58:52 [1]
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Australia -- Teresa, Thu, Mar 08 2007, 8:45:45 [1]
Sorry!! Thanks for doing that for me, I didn't think at the time!! Whoops.
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No appol nessessary, was glad to pass info on, pleased Lee got some helpful responses -- MOD, Thu, Mar 08 2007, 16:48:33 [1]
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