Australian Irish Dancing Photography Live Commentary: 2011

Sunday 13 November 2011

And the feis is over!!

Results will be posted once they are given to me....

Soft shoe rounds are almost finished

Treble reel and own choreography to go, then presentations!

Feis update

The 11 Years and over have almost completed their hard shoe round and are circling around in marshalling waiting to do their soft shoe round.

Feis update

With Craig Henderson temporarily (?) on the microphone, we are off and racing for the afternoon sections, the 11 and over age groups. They are now dancing their haard shoe round.

Results - Intermediate/Open Premierships

7 and 8 Years Intermediate/Open

1 Kaitlin Weeks

2 Isobel Chambers

9 and 10 Years Intermediate/Open Girls

1 Rachel White

2 Sophie Liang

3 Holly Cividin

9 and 10 Years Intermediate/Open Boys

1 Nicholas Barkopolous-Cooke

Presentations for 9 and 10 Years about to get underway

9 and 10 Years in marshalling

Presentations for the earlier age groups has finished, results as soon as I can :)

Section details

7 and 8 years Beginners - seven dancers
7 and 8 years Primary - six dancers
7 and 8 years Elementary - three dancers
7 and 8 years Intermediate/Open - two dancers
4 and 5 years Beginners - seven dancers
6 years Beginners - eight dancers
4 and 5 years Primary - three dancers
6 years Primary - five dancers
9 and 10 years Beginners - two dancers
9 and 10 years Primary - five dancers
9 and 10 years Elementary - ten dancers
9 and 10 years Intermediate/Open - three dancers
12 and 13 years Primary - four dancers
11 and 12 years Elementary - seven dancers
11 and 12 years Intermediate/Open - two dancers
13 and 14 years Elementary - three dancers
13 and 14 years Intermediate/Open - three dancers
15 years and over Intermediate/Open - eight dancers
18 years and over Intermediate/Open - three dancers
Treble Reel - three dancers
Own Choreography - three dancers

I have no details for the trophies.

We are running a little early and that provides the opportunity for the younger age groups to get themselves organised and settled before dancing their second round. The hall is quite full with family and friends watching the younger dancers.

Gourmet Food update
ChaosCentral is ideally positioned to bring you the latest details as we have set-up right in front of the door to the Chinese restaurant within the Concord RSL. So well positioned that we expect to be move3d along once they open! The Bistro is open for cappuccinos and lattes, and at 1145 they are open for food. Despite an extensive search, not a single chocolate crackle was sighted.

6 Years Primary dancers now on stage

4, 5 and 6 years now dancing

Feis scenes

7 & 8 dancers are on stage

Little dancers doing their soft shoe rounds....

Welcome to the 2011 Four Provinces Feis

Today, we are at the last Sydney competition for 2011 and also at one of the longest-running competitions in Sydney, if not Australia. The Four Provinces Feis is run at the Concord RSL and the dancers are competing on tarquet, three strips wide, on the floor in front of the adjudicator.

Today's dancing schedule is as follows:
1000 8 Years Beginners, Primary, Elementary, Intermediate and Open
1100 4, 5 and 6 years Beginners and Primary
1130 9 and 10 Years Beginners, Primary, Elementary, Intermediate and Open
1245 Prizes and lunch
1330 11 Years and Over Beginners, Primary, Elementary, Intermediate and Open
1700 Prizes

Our adjudicator is Charmaine May ADCRG, music by iTunes :)

Sunday 2 October 2011

And that wraps up the Nationals

Another amazingly successful competition, with emotional highs and lows, fantastic dancing, amazing musicians and - best of all - it ran on-time or early every day!

We have seen the introduction of IDTV and hopefully it will continue and grow over time, we have experienced the wonderful warmth and friendship of QLD and dancers from all over Australia.

LiveCommentary and LiveCam could not be done by an individual, it was made with the assistance of:

PRODUCER: Conor Ayres
PRESENTERS: Sinead Watkins, Brianna Travers, Niamh Champion, Bianca Nicholls and Jacqui Schweive
LIVECOMMENTATOR AND MARKSMITH: Aisling O'Brien
PHOTOGRAPHER-IN-TRAINING: Theapatra Ross

And to AIDA Australia, without who's support (and permission!) this production would not be possible, many thanks and my deepest gratitude.

Presentation photos, Dance of Champions and Ceili photos will be online at some time, after we ceremoniously destroy the ChaosCentral production suite :)

Results - Ceili

Under 19 Girls 4 Hand
Place No Team Studio Name
1 112 Team A Halloran : NSW
2 140 Team B Christine Ayres : VIC
3 108 Team A Mulcahy-Hayes : VIC
4 103 Team A Scoil Ard Rince : QLD
5 122 Team A McAleer : VIC
6 133 Team B Halloran : NSW
7 107 Team A Walton : NSW
8 106 Team A Howe : SA
9 126 Team B McAleer : VIC
10 127 Team A Miller : SA
11 134 Team A Scoil Rince Kilmurray : VIC
12 116 Team A Christine Ayres : VIC
12 139 Team A Walker School : QLD
14 136 Team A Currie-Henderson : NSW
15 132 Team A Crocker : QLD
16 113 Team B Scoil Ard Rince : QLD
17 102 Team A Kick Dance Studio : QLD
18 129 Team A Aisling : NSW
19 111 Team D Cosgriff : VIC
20 120 Team A Scoil Ni Ceide/ Upton : WA

Open Age Girls 4 Hand
Place No Team Studio Name
1 142 Team A McAleer : VIC
2 110 Team A Mulcahy-Hayes : VIC
3 144 Team A Scoil Rince Kilmurray : VIC
4 145 Team A Halloran : NSW
5 101 Team A Kavanagh : WA
6 133 Team A Cosgriff : VIC
7 119 Team B Christine Ayres : VIC
8 140 Team A Bilton : VIC
9 141 Team A Scoil Ard Rince : QLD
10 130 Team B Maher : NSW
11 108 Team A Maher : NSW
12 106 Team A Scoil Ni Ceide/ Upton : WA
12 134 Team A Lynagh : QLD
14 147 Team A Christine Ayres : VIC
15 104 Team A Howe : SA
16 129 Team A Watkins : QLD
17 114 Team A Liz Gregory : ACT
18 137 Team B McAleer : VIC
19 107 Team A Miller : SA
20 135 Team B Mulcahy-Hayes : VIC
21 148 Team B Scoil Ard Rince : QLD
22 127 Team A Trinity Studio : WA
23 132 Team A Scoil Rince Ni Murchu : SA
24 136 Team A Walker School : QLD

Open Age Mixed 4 Hand
Place No Team Studio Name
1 122 Team A Simpson : ACT
2 109 Team A Dwyer-Whelan : NSW
3 104 Team A Walton : NSW
4 103 Team A Halloran : NSW
5 117 Team A Mulcahy-Hayes : VIC
6 118 Team A Scoil Rnce Ni Murchu : SA
7 124 Team A Aisling : NSW
8 111 Team A Christine Ayres : VIC
8 121 Team B Scoil Ard Rince : QLD
10 119 Team B Dwyer-Whelan : NSW
11 125 Team A Cosgriff : VIC
12 114 Team A Liz Gregory : ACT
13 120 Team A QIA Dancers : QLD

Under 19 Girls 8 Hand
Place No Team Studio Name
1 110 Team A Scoil Ard Rince : QLD
2 111 Team A Scoil Rince Kilmurray : VIC
3 108 Team A Cosgriff : VIC
4 109 Team A Halloran : NSW
5 104 Team B Cosgriff : VIC
6 107 Team A Mulcahy-Hayes : VIC

Open Age Girls 8 Hand
Place No Team Studio Name
1 112 Team B Christine Ayres : VIC
2 104 Team A Halloran : NSW
3 116 Team A Christine Ayres : VIC
4 117 Team A Scoil Ard Rince : QLD
5 123 Team A Miller : SA
6 124 Team A Simpson : ACT
7 127 Team A Howe : SA
8 126 Team A McAleer : VIC
9 105 Team A Walton : NSW
10 128 Team A Scoil Rince Kilmurray : VIC
11 115 Team A Mulcahy-Hayes : VIC
12 111 Team A Watkins : QLD
13 122 Team A Adelaide Academy : SA
14 125 Team A Maher : NSW

Open Age Mixed 8 Hand
Place No Team Studio Name
1 111 Team A Simpson : ACT
2 101 Team A Dwyer-Whelan : NSW
3 114 Team A Halloran : NSW
4 106 Team A Scoil Ard Rince : QLD
5 112 Team A Christine Ayres : VIC
6 113 Team A Walton : NSW
7 102 Team A Aisling : NSW
8 103 Team A Mulcahy-Hayes : VIC
9 104 Team A Cosgriff : VIC

Senior Figure
Place No Team Studio Name

1 102 Team A Simpson : ACT
2 103 Team A Christine Ayres : VIC
3 109 Team A Watkins : QLD
4 107 Team A Cosgriff : VIC
5 106 Team A Currie-Henderson : NSW
6 104 Team A Adelaide Academy : SA
7 108 Team A O’Connor : VIC
8 105 Team A Bilton : VIC
9 110 Team A McMahon : NSW

Full Results to follow shortly

Senior Figure Champions 2011 Simpson ACT!

Open Age Mixed 8 Hand Ceili Champions 2011 Simpson ACT!

Open Age Girls 8 Hand Ceili Champions 2011 Christine Ayres VIC!

Under 19 Girls 8 Hand Ceili Champions 2011 Scoil Ard Rince QLD!

Open Age Mixed 4 Hand Ceili Champions 2011 Simpson, ACT!

Open Age Girls 4 Hand Champions 2011 McAleer VIC!

Under 19 Girls 4 Hand Ceili Champions 2011 Halloran NSW!

Dancing is complete!

The dancing for the 2011 Australian National Irish Dancing Championships has now finished. Results will commence shortly.

Feis Update

3 figures left!

The Senior Figures are now on stage!!!!

Team 101 has withdrawn... so we will be commencing the Senior figure section with team 102. Awaiting the adjudicators taking their seats - the panel for this section will be all six of our judges.

Feis Update

All the Open Age 8 Hand teams are complete, and now we are continuing with the Senior Figures. The Senior Figure is the last event for this years nationals!