New dancers and "old hands"!

Sunday at the NSW AIDA St Patrick's Day Premiership and Graded Feis

 The canteen is ready, a new batch of chocolate crackles have arrived - and been quality tested by ChaosCentral - and the day will be underway in another 30 minutes.

This morning we have the smallest and youngest memners of the Irish Dancing community, many in their first competition, while others are old hands, having competed last year!

As I keep saying, it is these age groups that are the future or Irish Dancing in Australia and it is important that all of us support them, their parents and teachers to ensure that they enjoy the dancing and keep going.

The feis is over for the day!!

We will be online again at 10:00 tomorrow, look forward to seeing you then :)

Results - 14 Years

1st 198 Sarah Robinson Aisling
2nd 84 Siobhan Hamilton Maher
3rd 17 Mollie Brennan Walton
4th 56 Briana Dragisic Walton
=5th 143 Jayde Mason Halloran
=5th 204 Thea Ross Aisling

Results - 13 Years

1st 164 Jonty Moore Aisling
2nd 243 Jordan Walter Halloran
=3rd 55 Maggie Devine Maher
=3rd 20 Kieran Bryant Halloran
5th 65 Charlotte Fletcher Walton
6th 187 Sinead Podesta Maher
7th 140 Alex Makin Halloran
8th 133 Kirrily Lippmann Halloran

14 Years Premiership soft shoe round about to start

Last section of the day!!

Tomorrow we start at 10:00, so LiveCam and LiveCommentary will once again be online around that time.

13 & 14 Years called to marshalling for their soft shoe round of the Premiership

Results and presentations after that!

Feis update

There has been an extended pause due to a dancer slipping and some problems with dancers not being ready.  However, the show is now back on the road with the 14 Years in stage doing their hard show dance in the Premiership.

9 Years Premiership dancers now in marshalling

And very excited they are too :)

The remaining warm-up sections have been called to marshalling

Feis update

We seem to be running on time and, as ChaosCentral has a little spare time, it has been used getting the photos into some order for their appearance on www.swoose.net later tonight - certainly after 2200!

Whilst doing this we suddenly noticed that it was quiet, the adjudicators weren't ringing the bell other than for the end of a dance.  Searching the horizon, and LiveCam views have the same view as your humble correspondent, the place is somewhat empty as there are only the families and support groups for the last age groups of the day.  Much quieter indeed :)

The warm-ups have only another five sections to dance, then on to the Premierships, results and presentations.

13 & 14 Years now on stage

Doing their warm-up dances

Results - 10 Years

=1st 163 Danae Moore Aisling
=1st 175 Christina O'Connor Dwyer-Whelan
=3rd 172 Ashling Munro Halloran
=3rd 16 Daniel Brennan Walton
=5th 99 Alexandra Hennings Carey
=5th 131 Will Limbrey Carroll
7th 235 Rachel Vella Maher

Results - 9 Years

1st 203 Natasha Ross Aisling
2nd 195 Grace Reid Halloran
3rd 252 Mikayla White Halloran
4th 192 Genevieve Price Currie-Henderson
5th 136 Natahni Lonergan Walton
6th 96 Roisin Hayes Halloran

9 & 10 Years Premiership has finished

Dancers going to the Worlds have been invited to come on stage to practice their sets!

10 Years Premiership about to start

9 & 10 Years hard shoe round finished

Soft shoe round about to start, followed by results and presentations.

It is cooler in the hall now, even though there has been an influx of 13 & 14 Years dancers getting ready and generally spraying glitter and hair product around the place.

More smiling faces

 The 9 Years Premiership dancers are on-stage now.

Warm-up dances have finished

9 & 10 Years Premiership is about to get underway

9 and 10 Years

Just starting Section 55 Elementary reel 9/10
Looks like we are about 15 minutes behind schedule.  Which in Irish parlance is an insignificant deviation from the norm.

More feis faces :)

9 & 10 Years now on stage

They are working their way through the warm-up dances and there is also a lot of toe-tapping going on in the hall!

Today's gourmet food was provided by the Maher School, tomorrow will be another school trying to uphold the high standard set today.

9 & 10 Years now marshalling

As the "more experienced" age groups head towards the stage, the audience has again been asked to please keep the noise down.

Those watching LiveCam at http://www.livestream.com/australianirishdancing will notice that the hall is quite full and that the audience are fanning themselves.  It is warm out there today and no means of cooling the hall other than opening doors to allow the breeze in :)

Results - 8 Years

1st 109 Ashleigh Kelly Walton
2nd 207 Aillie Russell Fenagh
3rd 87 Rose Hanratty Halloran
4th 31 Mitchell Carroll Halloran
5th 226 Connie Sutton Aisling
6th 18 Erin Browne Halloran
7th 113 Olivia Kennedy Halloran
8th 221 Erin Stinten Maher

Results - 7 Years

1 208 Imogen Ryan Fenagh
2 93 Eloise Hawse Creer-Harvey

Feis update

7 Years Premiership now on stage!

Feis update

ChaosCentral has been joined by a member of Scoil Rince Aisling who is now giving editorial advice to this LiveCommentary.  In her opinion (anonymously), we need to blog more detail of what is happening, so here goes....

The adjudicators have requested quiet as we are in a school hall with wooden floors that amplify the sound.  The organisers have asked the public to try to be quiet and they complied - for about 30 seconds.

So, all the news that is fit to print, anonymous advice giver.

Happy now Thea?

Feis faces

 And the final dancers in the warm-up sections have been called to marshalling.  The Premiership dances will start soon!

Feis update

Lunch was glorious and even as this is types, we are enjoying a sausage sandwich.  Note to self, clean keyboard later.

7 & 8 Years are now doing their warm-up dances, which will be followed by their soft shoe and hard shoe Premiership rounds.  Lots of dancers in these sections and quite a few new faces as well!

For those arriving later or tomorrow, there is plenty of parking at the school and the venue is the school hall - down the driveway and the building on the right.  Also, there is no airconditioning in the hall, so dress comfortably as it can become warm and humid :)

Results - 12 Years

=1st 39 Luke Chaumont Walton
=1st 64 Isabella Fitzpatrick Halloran
3rd 178 Bridie O'Neill Carey
4th 53 Annie Devine Maher
5th 75 Isabelle Geeves Ni Piobaire
6th 15 Oisin Braddock Hanratty Walton
7th 37 Alana Chapman Walton
8th 114 Caitlin Kersivien Maher

Results - 11 Years

1st 13 Roisin Bolwell Halloran
2nd 134 Siobhan Lo Fenagh
3rd 108 Isobel Kanaley Dwyer-Whelan
4th 169 Isabella Mosser Aisling
5th 1 Jade Abbey Carey
6th 14 Ellie Borg Carey
7th 73 Maddison Gardoni Halloran
8th 239 Katherine Wakeling Maher
9th 138 Niamh Mack Carey
10th 245 Chanel Wardini Halloran
11th 199 Georgia Robinson Carey
12th 144 Michaela Mason Wollongong

11 & 12 Years dancing has finished

Results soon!

Premiership dancers now on stage

12 years now doing their soft shoe dance

A little break

We are about to start the Premiership section, but the adjudicators are furiously scribbling away, so I guess there will be a small delay until they are ready.  At least they are well supplied with cups of tea, water and entertainment!!

Feis scenes

More feis updates

We are now back to hard shoe dances, with the anticipation of set dances to come.  Until we fix a small Picasa bug, there won't be any photos on LiveCommentary - but we are working on a solution :)

Gourmet food update:
The food from the canteen looks marvellous and ChaosCentral was gifted several chocolate crackles this morning that seem to have made good their escape!

Feis update

There is nothing like onsite, real time, real world testing to show that all the best plans can come undone!

ChaosCentral is back online, having found that the equipment that tested perfectly acceptably in Castle Chaos decided that it wasn't interested in working on the banks of the Nepean.  Having uttered many stern words and removed all electrons from the offending devices, we are now back in the real, or Irish Dancing, world :)

The 11 & 12 Years are still dancing their soft shoe round and we look to be on-track with time too!

he dancing is underway

The 11 & 12 Years are doing their warm-up dances, the stage is producing a great sound and the audience can hear every treble :)

Premiership competitor numbers

• 6 Years - 3
• 7 Years - 2
• 8 Years - 12
• 9 Years - 8
• 10 Years - 12
• 11 Years - 22
• 12 Years - 14
• 13 Years - 16
• 14 Years - 9
• 15 Years - 18
• 16 Years - 13
• 17 Years - 12
• 18 Years - 7
• 19 Years - 10
• 20 Years & Over - 12

Welcome to the AIDA St Patrick's Day Premiership Graded Feis

A beautiful, and dry, Sydney Autumn day beside the Nepean River at Emu Plains.  The feis is held at Nepean High School in their hall, which has great seating and a stage that can be seen by all.

The vendors are here, there is a wonderful canteen promising chocolate crackles and also hot and cold food and drinks.

The Adjudicators are:

• Monica Poulton ADCRG (VIC); and
• Christine Ayres ADCRG (VIC)

Our dancing program is as follows:

SATURDAY 10th MARCH
9.00am: 11 & 12 years Graded
10.45am: 11 years & 12 years Premierships
12.00: Results & Lunch
12.45pm: 7 & 8 years Graded
2.15pm: 7 years & 8 years Premierships
Results
3.15pm: 9 & 10 years Graded
4.30pm: 9 years & 10 years Premierships
Results
5.45pm: 13 & 14 years Graded
6.30pm: 13 years & 14 years Premierships
7.30pm: Approx finish

SUNDAY 11th MARCH
10.00am: 6 years & under Graded & Premiership
11.00am: Results
11.30am: 17 years & over Graded
12.15pm: 17 years & over Premierships
2.00pm: Results & Lunch
3.00pm: 15 & 16 years Graded
3.45pm: 15 years & 16 years Premierships
6.00pm: Results
6.30pm - 7.30pm: Debut Practice

NSW AIDA St Patrick's Day Feis starts tomorrow!

At the St Pats Feis this weekend there will be a canteen running on Saturday and Sunday. Saturday's menu includes sausage sandwiches, toasted sandwiches, cakes, slices, muffins and (of course) chocolate crackles. Also tea/coffee, soft drinks, poppas and water. Lolly bags for the kids (both big and small). There will be no fried food on Saturday.

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.

Feis update

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 :)