Sunday 7 October 2007

Ceili dancing

The university prepared a lot of events for the international freshers during our first week. The event I like more is the Ceili dancing.

Ceili dancing is the traditional Irish dancing and relies also in the traditional Irish music. In our case, we had a little music band and one man explaining the different dances to all of us just before starting. That dances has some movements like some steps in some direction, turning, people making arcs or circles, kicking the ground and so on. After each loop, there are another movement that changes the groups of people that are dancing together. This is made in a way that is modular and endless (in theory). That part remembers me the algorithm dance, but this is much better ;)

Another advantage is that permutations helps yout to know more people - actually, only to say hello for a couple of seconds.

At the end of the day I was danced all the dances of the event! And I have a little video of one of the dances in which our row was resting during one loop.



6 comments:

Ed said...

Awesome!! xD

It's quite similar to Scottish dances we do our first week and yeah! it's very fun.

Onio said...

Eres de los pocos capaz de tornar la explicación de un baile en algo cuasi matemático/informático.
En cualquier cosa, siendo pasos tan fijos se te debe dar bien (es momento de no pensar que no hay flechas bajo tus pies)

Anonymous said...

Yes, like onio I think you would have been more sure of your movements with some arrows on the floor :)

Have fun there! Bye

Tonecas said...

The dance is very funny, but I would like see you dancing, with your odd style

Chus said...

Well I'm the third person refearing the same but... for a eigth feet champion like you that almost-algoritmical dance should be quite easy to learn.
Maybe that left you plenty time for aproach to some dancing-girls...

Sr. Rivera said...

Hey, the girl you say hello got a terrible sight, don't do things like that Sebas.