LEARN BLACKBIRD - Jerry Molyneaux - GRADE EXAM 6

[@mistermeaney]

Thanks for breaking this version down so well! This is the best taught version I've seen! 👏

[@MJPAcademyIrishDance]

Wow thank you! I am SO glad you could get something from it. :))

[@clairebillington7097]

I am going to learn this version. Mine was a little different, but I love the footwork in this set. I haven’t danced for 15 years and waiting for my new jig shoes to arrive. Thanks for posting.

[@AlainaRaven]

omg i was never able to get this when i first learnt it and this makes it so much easier thank you!!!

[@MJPAcademyIrishDance]

I am SO pleased to hear that I could help you!

[@MJPAcademyIrishDance]

I forgot to say: Feel free to post yourselves dancing this after you learn it on Social Media and tag us (MJP Academy) so we can see your progress!

[@chikoinbj2007]

😻Thank you thank you! I’ve always wanted to learn a Molyneaux version. 🙏🏻

[@MJPAcademyIrishDance]

You are very welcome!! I am so glad it helped!

[@jenniferstjohn2122]

Thank you! I've always wanted to learn the Molyneaux and they don't teach it in schools!

[@MJPAcademyIrishDance]

You are very welcome!

[@nicoledevona8207]

Omg! I want to learn this! So amazing!

[@hectordeleon4124]

Your teaching style is nice and clear! I don't suppose you'd want to post the Cork version of King of the Fairies? I'd love to learn that one!

[@MJPAcademyIrishDance]

Thank you SO much! I was planing on doing all the trads but we got pregnant and now we have a little one. If I get more time in the future I’ll for sure do them.

[@Jeffeffery9]

Thank you ... this video is wonderful. Unparalleled rhythm and great style. Lucky students. I have a misc question as an Irish dancer of almost 18 years now. Trad sets were always advertised to me as having the same choreography no matter where you went. Of course years later, I found out there are not only sometimes one but multiple versions of the choreography for every trad set. Why is this? The choreography in this video is like I have never seen for blackbird! I like it a lot. I'm wondering if this is a competition legal version of blackbird ? Cheers

[@MJPAcademyIrishDance]

Thank you SO much! Great question. There are quite a few different versions of each Trad Set. I think that St. Paddies is the only one that is the same world wide. The "normal" Blackbird seems to be the same until halfway through the set. And then Job, seems to have different sets. And then all the rest seem to have variations throughout the whole dance. This particular version of Blackbird was learned from "traditional Irish dancers" in Ireland. We do "Irish Step Dancing". So we have now incorporated this into our own repertoire. I teach in CLRG (Commission) and this version is allowed in competitions. I don't know about CRN or Chomhdhail.

[@Jeffeffery9]

I'd love videos for Jockey to the Fair and Job of Journeywork ... If you have them !!! Thanks

[@MJPAcademyIrishDance]

So would all my students! Haha. I was pregnant this year and now have a 4 month old. Once I can dance again I will see if I can get time to create and edit more Trad Sets. :)

[@jimhaniganT1D]

Do you still post beginner Urish dance steps on line

[@gracexx2383]

do u have any tips for clearer and louder trebles?

[@MJPAcademyIrishDance]

Try this video, hack #4 it can help. Ill try to include more loud/clear tips in the next video :) kzbin.info/www/bejne/l4PXfpuPhtyJhrs

[@gracexx2383]

@@MJPAcademyIrishDance thank u, that would b great! I’ll try that now x

[@VinothKumar-vm2wg]

I love this dance... But language problem no understand 🤯

[@MJPAcademyIrishDance]

Do closed captions work? I can upload english ones to help you.

[@MJPAcademyIrishDance]

I've updated the subtitles for you so that they are more accurate. Now if you use the "translate" function it should work better.

[@marcusuadonnghaile1855]

Upyahgurlyah!!! 😀

[@robertgabriell7690]

Sorry, Mollineux versions are not allowed with CLRG

[@MJPAcademyIrishDance]

They are permitted and used regularly.

[@janettedavis6627]

You kicked your heel with your toe Yes! Thats the real way .

[@Wafaloo]

What does Grade Exam 6 mean…?

[@MJPAcademyIrishDance]

There are grade exams that students can take in Irish dance in CLRG. There are 12 grades and then a teachers exam. Many of my students take these exams so I label the dances they need for each exam with the grade level for convenience. Or for anyone else from other schools that might be taking their grades and looking for videos of the dances.

[@Wafaloo]

@@MJPAcademyIrishDance is this new because I’ve never heard of this before

[@MJPAcademyIrishDance]

@@Wafaloo Grades have always been around. But weren't popular in North America until around ..I wanna say around 2009? Are you with CLRG? Or a different organization? Here is a link to what grades are and when they are offered. www.idtana.org/events/clrg-grade-exams-2/

[@Wafaloo]

⁠@@MJPAcademyIrishDanceoh okay. Yes I’m CLRG, but I’d stopped dancing in the very early 2000s and this wasn’t a thing back then. At the very least, it was very uncommon and I never heard about it. I’m also getting back into it after many years away so it’s interesting to see how things have changed.

[@allroundmusic6438]

Coming from an Irish girl who has been dancing all my life this is not the traditional version. Nothing in this version is in the original and most of the steps are way to modern.

[@MJPAcademyIrishDance]

Hi, it all depends on what kind of Irish dancing you do. If you do Irish step dancing like we do, then this is not the Blackbird that was originally used onstage for step dancers. But this is the version that was created by Jerry Molyneaux and was passed down by the “traditional Irish dancers”. I learned this in Ireland when I was studying there at Limerick University from a traditional Irish dancer. I changed a few things by crossing them over d tightened the arms. But you would be surprised by the crazy moves they do!