Irish Step Dancing
Created | Updated Jan 28, 2002
Irish Step Dancing is the traditional dancing done in Ireland and now throughout the world. Step dancing is done mostly on the toes and with ones torso and arms kept straight and vertical. There are many different types of dances: like jigs, reels, hornpipes, treble jigs, set dances and slipjigs. Some of these dances are for hard shoes and some for soft shoes (called gillies{the shoes not the dance!}). Traditional dance is not exactly like Riverdance. In traditional you dance dances that have been around for hundreds of years while Riverdance's dances were chreographed especially for them.
