Australian Irish Dancing Photography Live Commentary: May 2013

Sunday, 19 May 2013

Results - 11 & 12 Years

	11 Years Premiership
1st	Rachel	Vella	Maher
2nd	Charlotte	Smith	Wollongong
3rd	Holly	Cividen	Reilly
4th	Sophie	Liang	Halloran
5th	Cait	Roche	Halloran
6th	Madeline	Osborn	Fenagh
7th	Emma	Farrell	Reilly
8th	Molly	Kingham Convey	Walton
9th	Tara	Slowey	Maher
10th	Brodie	Billotta	Halloran

	12 Years Premiership
1st	Rachel	White	Halloran
=2nd	Michaela	Mason	Wollongong
=2nd	Erin	Burt	Creer
4th	Jade	Abbey	Carey
5th	Sian	Hamilton	Creer
=6th	Ashleigh	Rollason	Creer
=6th	Kate	Wakeling	Maher
=8th	Ellie	Borg	Carey
=8th	Gabi	Irving	Creer
10th	Alannah	Frawley	Wollongong
11th	Any	Mountford	Creer
12th	Ysabel	Hardge	Maher
13th	Elizabeth	Wakeling	Maher
=14th	Bridget	Kirwin	Dwyer-Whelan
=14th	Georgia	Jose	Creer
16th	Christina	Miralles	Walton
17th	Chloe	Schulze	Wollongong

Dancing for the day has finished, and so has the feis!

Presentations will start soon and later, some time after 20:00, photos will be available on www.swoose.net

Many thanks to Karen Heggie, our inscrutable scrutineer, who supplied ChaosCentral with the results that meant you, dear viewer, could see them more quickly :)

Technology update

Well, the assorted hardware has hung together quite well this weekend, only a few minor glitches for which we apologise. Multiple computers, multiple internet feeds and new camera equipment is proving to be stable and usable.

So, the next experiment, or as we like to call it at the ChaosCentral Research Advancement Plant "product experience" will be to see if we can LiveUpdate photos to some site or another - in other words, as soon as we take it, you see it. No waiting for the Special Delivery Elves to load LiveCommentary or www.swoose.net, just a simple feed of RAW images in real-ish time.

Consideration of how to *actually* do this will be undertaken over the next few weeks....

And in feis-related matters, the soft shoe round of the Premiership is progressing nicely and we anticipate presentations before 1800.

We are nearly there!!

Dancers are milling around in marshalling, resplendent in their soft shoes. This can only mean one thing, that we are marching steadily to the end of the feis and then onto presentations!!

Also to go home and rejoin the real world, leaving the reel world behind for another few weeks... :)

11 Years called to marshalling for their soft shoe round

12 Years Premiership first round now on stage

They are dancing two at a time and; it is becoming dark outside and the lights are feeble inside, so ots just as well the dresses have lots of bling!

Friends…..and marshalling for the Premiership rounds

Premiership rounds about to start - we are early!!!

Feis update

The 11 & 12 Years are dancing up a storm as the late afternoon sun finally fades from the northern windows of the hall. The temperature will one again drop as the strip heaters are continuing their sulk from yesterday. The vendors are packing up, but the canteen is still providing all sorts of hot and cold foods and a staggering array of home-made slices and cakes - really home made, not in some factory "home"!

The feis is running on time, a fact appreciated but not vocalised by the very full hall. It is, once again, standing room only, which can only mean that Irish Dancing is still strong in NSW, especially as there are many beginner and primary sections with good numbers.

More updates as they come to hand, except this one; the warm-up dances are still underway :)

	13 Years Premiership
1st	Annie	Devine	Maher
2nd	Naoise	Champion	Walton
3rd	Oisin	Braddock-Hanratty	Walton
4th	Holly	Gibson	Halloran
=5th	Alana	Chapman	Walton
=5th	Matt	Lambert	Carroll
7th	Isabelle	Shelley	Halloran
8th	Caragh	Hayes	Halloran
9th	Isabelle	Geeves	Ni Piobaire
10th	Clare	Sultana	Ni Piobaire


	14 Years Premiership
1st	Sinead	Podesta	Maher
2nd	Niamh	Kennedy	Walton
3rd	Caitlin	Pellizzon	Maher
4th	Erin	Kavanagh	Creer
5th	Megan	Donnelly	Wollongong
6th	Bryanee	Jarrett	Bird
7th	Jade	Kyte	Derwent