2025 weekly classes
Registration
Fall 2024
Old-Style Step Dancing “Signature Steps”
5-week session
In this class, I will share old-style Irish dance steps from my personal repertoire that I’ve collected or created over many years. This is an intermediate-level class — some step dancing experience is required. As always, I will include a warm-up, technique, personal background/context for these steps, and perspectives on musicality and performance style.
Online classes are scheduled for Eastern Time. A Zoom link will be emailed to you 24 hours before the start of the first class. (Please make sure I have your correct email address.) Each class in this series will be recorded and made available to students for one week, before the next class.
- Tuesdays
Sept 10 - Oct 8 - 6:00 - 7:15 pm
- Online via Zoom
- Class fee: $90
Mindful Movement (online)
5-week session
This 60 minute class invites students to come into deeper presence and awareness — with a movement experience that fosters grounding, release, creativity, and energy flow. Drawing from somatic practices such as Bartenieff Fundamentals, Polarity Yoga, and dance improvisation, this is a restorative and enlivening class — set to slow airs, waltzes, and other lyrical selections from traditional Irish and Celtic music. Come nourish yourself with a gentle reboot! No experience necessary!
Online classes are scheduled for Eastern Time. A Zoom link will be emailed to you 24 hours before the start of the first class. (Please make sure I have your correct email address.) Each class in this series will be recorded and made available to students for one week, before the next class.
- Tuesdays
Oct 29 - Nov 26 - 6:00 - 7:00 pm
- Online via Zoom
- Class fee: $80
Private Lessons and Instructional Videos
Private lessons in traditional and old style Irish step dance and sean-nós dance:
I offer private lessons in Boston, or online via Zoom. My rate is $85/hour (online or at my home), or $110 (in studio). Please email me if you are interested in working together one-on-one!
Instructional Videos
For Irish step dancing instruction, check out Footnotes, my living archive and online library of steps, with repertoire for all levels.
For an in-depth sean-nós dance tutorial, starting with beginner basics and moving into more complex rhythms, consider ordering my Musical Feet videos, which are available on DVD, or with streaming and downloadable options.
- Date: TBD
- $85 online or at my home
- $110 in studio
Dan Furey Step Dance Gathering (online)
An online gathering to dance through the old-style step dance repertoire of Dan Furey, James Keane, and Céline and Michael Tubridy. These gatherings are FREE, and they take place on the 3rd Saturday of each month with a rotation of teachers hosting from Ireland, the US and Japan. 9 am Eastern time / 2 pm Irish time
The Zoom link will be shared in Kieran’s newsletter before each monthly meeting.
- Saturdays
once per month - Online via Zoom No registration