It's pretty, it’s colorful but it sure is expensive. Long ago, when Irish dancing was all about the shoes, dancers were obliged to have the correct pair of shoes, be they hard or soft. Today the shoes ...

“Keepers of the Steps,” an Irish dance historical preservation, archive, and outreach program, has quickly grown to be a cornerstone program for the United Irish Cultural Center of San Francisco (UICC ...

As Ava Burroughs took her new dress for a spin around the studio floor at Millennium Academy of Irish Dance & Music, she couldn’t help holding her chin a bit higher and kicking her legs out a bit ...

Irish step dancers know how to make an entrance with their swift footwork, glittery costumes and pounding, synchronized movements. Step dancing, an Irish folk dance with different styles, is a series ...

WHITMAN – The Haley School of Irish Dance class was well under way in the basement of Whitman’s First Congregational Church on a Thursday night. A group of five girls in glittering costumes, holding ...

Sarah and mother Maria Taylor share a love of Irish dancing. Maria grew up in Northern Ireland with Irish dance and now Sarah, a freshman at Destrehan High School, does Irish dance. (Courtesy of the ...