The Phoenix Halloween Feis October 2011

This feis was my very 1^st competition back in 1994.  It has always been a community feis, no school affiliation & volunteers came from not only all the local dance schools but also from the Irish community.  In recent years it has been run by the Celtic Dance Acadamy, now part of the Maguire Academy.  Tempe is a great location & the feis is held at the Tempe Palms Hotel, next to Rula Bula Irish Pub & Mill Ave.  This year was the 1^st time that the feis was a “Halloween” feis.  The medals & trophies were cool & costumed volunteers (some innappropriate for a family event) were handing out candy.

Here is how Emma did:

U7 Novice           Reel         3^rd out of 8

U9 PrizeWinner  Light Jig                 4^th out of 12

U7 Beg 2              SlipJig      4^th out of 11

U9 Novice           SingleJig  2^nd out of 18 (moved up to Prizewinner)

U7 Beg 2              TrebleJig  2^nd out of 6 (moved up to Novice)

U7 Beg 2              Hornpipe  7^th out of 8

U7 Beg 2              St. Pats      3^rd out of 8

U9 Beg 1/2          SJ Spcl       5^th out of 16

My biggest issue was that the Older dancers running the stage had a hard time counting the girls off in the Slip Jig.  It got to the point where the judge had to ring her bell to get the TCRG who was running the rooms attention.  It threw the poor U7s off!

Emma had a great time and enjoyed the time she could spend with her friend Garnet, from Albaquerque.