Last weekend a few of our dancers travelled up to Wolverhampton for Danny Doherty’s Wolverhampton Feis. We had a very successful weekend, most notably with Louis Cuddy who won the U9 Boys Championships. Congratulations to Olivia Cuddy who placed 8th in the U14 Championships, as well as Isadora Durkin who placed well in the grades and [...]
European World Qualifiers
On 6-7 November in Stuttgart, the Mainland European World Qualifiers took place. Dancers from 20 countries throughout Europe competed at the event, each vying for a place to represent Europe at next year’s World Championships. Our dancers did very well winning 3 championships: Lucas Matera -1st Senior Mens Championship Maciek Skwarek – 1st 18-20 Men [...]
Prague Dancers in Talentmania Finals
Our Prague dancers have been very busy and over the past few weeks in addition to attending the Great Britain Championships, they have also been competing in the equivalent of ‘Britain’s Got Talent’ for the Czech Republic. The performance group is known as Rinceoiri and you can see their winning Semi Final performance here: Talentmania [...]
Great Britain Championships 2010
The Delaney Academy recently competed at the Great Britain Irish Dance Championships in Butlins, Bognor Regis. A team of Irish dancers from London and Prague travelled to the event to compete against dancers from the UK, Europe, Canada, USA and Australia. The 4 day event, organised and managed by the Southern England Regional Council, is as much [...]
All Scotland’s Championships
A week before the Great Britain Championships, a few dancers travelled up to Glasgow for the All Scotland Irish Dance Championships run by Noreen and James McCutcheon. This year the championships was held at the Hilton Hotel on Williams Street, central Glasgow. The venue was fabulous with good size stages and excellent facilities. As always, [...]
World Championships 2010
The World Irish Dance Championships took place on 27 March to 4 April 2010 at the Royal Concert Hall in Glasgow. Dancers from all over the world qualified within their region in order to compete at this prestigious event. The competition was fierce and the nerves ran high for dancers, teachers and parents! The Delaney [...]
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