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Date Posted: 04:46:29 12/05/02 Thu
Author: and instead maybe go for your TMRF
Subject: You should do ceili dancing!
In reply to: Annie 's message, "Irish dance community" on 04:25:27 09/18/02 Wed

>Please don't flame me or call me names. I'm an adult
>and have been trying to learn Irish dance for five
>years. But the Irish dance community has been far
>from welcoming. I've tried a couple schools, and I've
>gotten the distinct impression (or have been told
>outright) that I'm not good enough for them and to get
>lost.
>
>It hurts. All I want to do is dance. What's the
>secret? What do I have to do--that no one's telling
>me--to get accepted into an Irish dance school as a
>beginner?
>
>If I didn't love dancing so much, I'd just walk away
>from it. I've never met such rude people. And I
>heard from a friend that her relative's little girl
>was denied enrollment (in another city) because the
>entire school was full and wasn't accepting any more
>students when they obviously were.
>
>The last school I tried to enroll with did nothing
>with my application and check and refuses to respond
>to my phone calls or e-mails. Classes started two
>weeks ago, and I'm frantically trying to figure out
>why I wasn't accepted.
>
>And there aren't any other schools in my area.
>
>Second question. Is there any way to learn Irish
>dance even if you're not accepted by a school? Is
>there any way to DO anything with it then? I had
>originally hoped to get my TCRG.
>
>Please don't flame me. I'm not a bad person. I'm
>just trying to figure out why this is happening.

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[> Unfortunately adults are not taken seriously by most teachers -- me, 05:23:29 12/11/02 Wed

Think about this, there are not enough teachers in the US, so teachers can pick and choose their pupils. There is no where for adults to progress after reaching the advanced level. Children can progress through the 6 levels upto Open, then to Oireachtas, then to a Worldwide level. Teachers time is valuable, they want to spend it on pupils that have potential to go places, that's why they don't want to spend it on adults. Not everyone is the same though!!


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