2010 Performers

Kennelly School of Irish Dance
The Kennelly Irish Dance Company performs in both traditional and modern styles of step dancing. Critics have compared the dancers' precision to the Rockettes, their grace and style to the American Ballet Theatre, and their audience rapport to a private house party.

The Kennelly Dance Company is directed by Patricia Kennelly, world-renowned Irish dance teacher, choreographer and musician. The group holds titles from competitions across the United States, Canada and Ireland and has appeared with Cherish the Ladies, De Danan, Arcady, the Black Family and the Chieftains.

www.kennellyschool.com

Caper Duck
Two hundred years ago, settlers from the Scottish Highlands and Western Islands immigrated to Cape Breton, an isolated island off the tip of present-day Nova Scotia. They brought with them a form of hard-shoe dance then performed in Scotland. These steps have largely died out in the old country but have been preserved in the kitchens and living rooms and on the dance floors of Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada. Similar to clogging, Irish step, and tap-dance, they are performed to fiddle or bagpipe or even puirt-a-beul (singing without instruments).

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Contra Dance Workshop & Celhid Dance Workshop