NAIL Your Stage Presence!
Riverdance Star Amymae Dolan Shares TIPS for Dancers on how to NAIL your stage presence!
Stage presence can be a mysterious thing, sometimes we watch a dancer walk on stage and we are immediately captivated, sometimes not realising why.
A dancer’s stage presence draws your eye and makes you excited to watch them; it also makes it very hard as an audience member to stop watching them!
When deciding to write about stage presence it got me thinking about specific dancers I adored observing, what had they all in common? Somehow by only watching them on stage I felt like I had an insight into their own individual personality and that I believe is one of the most important aspects of stage presence - allowing your unique identity to come through in your performance.
We often question whether stage presence is inherited, an innate power which we would all love.
In some ways this is true some dancers seem to naturally ooze a presence on stage whilst others must spend time developing and perfecting it. The good news is that, finding your individual stage presence when you don’t think you have one is very possible. One of the main aspects in which we can all, always grow is CONFIDENCE.
Pictured: Amymae during her competitive dancing days
As dancers, a lot of us have a great confidence in our every day lives. Dancing in-front of audiences and competing often helps us grow a confidence which has so many benefits to our lives outside of dance. However, put us in a large group of dancers and those with a strong belief in themselves and a greater confidence will stand out from the crowd.
There are many things we can do in our training to develop our confidence.
First being very comfortable with your choreography and believing you worked your very hardest. Also, knowing you have a strong stamina to get through an entire dance at the best of your ability and having adequately prepared your mindset so that nerves as well as other factors will not effect your confidence are all important in ultimately having a strong stage presence.
Read more ...
Lavin Cassidy Feis
Hosts "THE BELTS"
Feb 29th-March 1st
Irish Dancing Magazine announced today, January 17th 2020, their team is heading to Lake Geneva Wisconsin to cover the very prestigious North American Feis Commission BELT Championships. These coveted titles are in the minor, junior, and senior categories with dancers in multiple age brackets competing against each other for the overall titles. "If you want to be WOW'd by a world class competition then you really should see the BELT competitions," shared Denise Keane, Publisher of Irish Dancing Magazine.
Top champions from all over North America compete for these titles. "The BELTS are unlike any other competition in the world. It provides a rare chance for Open Champions who have won a first place in the prior 12 months to show their skills against the best of the best in North America. If you are a Open Champ dancer, this is one event you should absolutely consider entering."
Pictured: Last year's Senior Belt Winners - a tie between Mackenzie Mahler (left) of Blakey Irish Dance, Calgary, Canada and Orla Mullane Godley from the Mullane Godley Irish Dance Academy in Chicago.
Registration is open on feisworx.com through February 14, 2020 for this year's exciting competition. Dancers must have earned an Open Champ 1st by February 14, 2020 in order to qualify for the Belt competitions.
In addition to the regular feis which is open to all levels of dancers, the NAFC Championships has added other trophy competitions for dancers to enter. Be sure to check out the Lavin Cassidy Feis!
Read more ...
