Customer Reviews

Celtic Feet [VHS]

5 star:		(9)
4 star:		(4)
3 star:		(5)
2 star:		(7)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

If you want to learn the basics of Irish dance, this is not a good choice. Colin is an extremely gifted dancer and his moves are impressive. However, he flies through the steps far too quickly and you will find yourself hitting rewind over and over and OVER to pick up a step.

If you are already familiar with all the basic steps, this could be a good tape to practice along with and enhance what you've learned elsewhere.

Incidentally, the quality of the video isn't great - the lighting is poor and it seems more like a home video than a professional recording.

I think Celtic Feet is helpful, even if you don't know anything about Irish Dancing. Using both hard and soft shoes, Colin Dunne introduces three basic steps, then gives you lots of opportunities to try them out. If you're looking for your first Irish Dance video, and you're over six years old, I recommend you consider this one.

I was looking forward to this video. Knowing nothing of how to Irish Dance (except for my free imitations done watching others), I bought this video thinking I might learn how to do some basic steps. Unfortunately, this is not a good video to learn by. Learning videos need a little bit of a boring quality, that is, watching from one camera angle one full practice step done slowly to rythm. But we never see the beginning steps done simply to rythm by one person; we jump from Mr. Dunne to the right, to the left, full body, just the feet, the others, which makes all of this more confusing. It seems like the director did not know if he was going to teach or entertain. However, if you are already an intermediate to professional Irish dancer already, I recommend this video. Or, if you want to enjoy watching how Irish dance is learned by professional dancers, but have no intention to get out of the sofa and try it, I recommend it.
p.s. - Do you think you could make another video called "Jig for Dummies"? That I would buy

If you've ever bought an instructional video and felt cheated that you paid a lot for very little information, you won't have that complaint with this one. Some of the reviewers of this video complain that it goes too fast, but that's why we have pause buttons on our VCRs! Each 5 minutes of this video will take a beginner one month to master, but each of the steps is done sufficiently slowly to allow it to be diagramed and repeated. You will spend 6 months to one year on this one-hour video if you are serious. I highly recommend it.

I have both tap and modern jazz experience under my belt, and I still had a very hard time following this tape. He only demonstrates each move once and then puts it with very fast paced music. It takes alot (and I mean ALOT) of rewinding and repeating to get these steps. If you are really serious about learning this style of dance, and put in the time and effort, then this tape will probably be useful. If you're just curious, then this video has some great performances.

I own Celtic Feet. Colin is a very attractive man and a very good dancer. But his instructions are for people who already have experience. He shows you a step slowly, explains it once and then his and his background dancers' feet are a blur of too fast to follow motion. This is not a beginners tape by any means, despite what he says. If you have already studies the dance and are just refreshing yourself, then it is nice. Otherwise, I'd just watch the tape to see what I should look like when after have I already learned.

I have had this video for years. I only did it for six months. The moves are hard to learn, and if you don't have the proper shoes and the proper floor to practice on, you WILL injure yourself! I got pretty good at the moves but the stomping resulted in Achilles' tendonitis for me, which I still suffer from. If you truly want to learn Irish dancing, take a class from an instructor in a proper setting. Don't risk injury with this video.

This video is absolutely marvelous! I had always wanted to learn Irish dancing and I found Celtic Feet to be the best instructional video; and it's taught by Colin Dunne - the best male Irish dancer! This video teaches dances in both soft shoe (ghillies) and in hard shoe. Though some of the Celtic Feet dance company looked rather rigid and kind of nervous, it was still very instructional and could not have been taught better. The steps are gone through once and then shown in the normal speed. You will need to practice these steps a lot more than once before you can get it right, so you'll need to do a lot of rewinding. This video is recommended to anyone who is at all interested in Irish Dance. Just don't overdue it or you'll get shin splints.

I wouldn't recommend this video if you've never taken Irish dance before as it does move quite fast. But if you've taken it before, you shouldn't have any problem following along. It's fun!

I highly recommend this instructional dance video. I would, though, recommend this for people who have had some experience with tap dancing but it is excellent.