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IDTANA HISTORY
The
Irish Dancing Teachers Association of North America (IDTANA)
was born in March, 1964 when Mae Butler, Fedelmia Davis,
Kevin McKenna, Peter Smith, Cyril McNiff and Anna O’Sullivan
met at the Irish Institute in New York City. They
came together with the goal of assuring teacher and
adjudicator competency, as well as standardizing the
ever growing number of feisanna throughout North
America.
The surviving founders of the IDTANA:
Anna O'Sullivan, Peter Smith, and Fidelmia Davis are
still active members and were recently voted lifetime
positions on the IDTANA Executive Board.
Since that small humble beginning, and
through the efforts of many dedicated Irish Dance Teachers throughout
the United States, Canada and Mexico, the IDTANA has
grown now to nearly 650 members - with over 100 members in Canada, 550 members in
the United States, and one member in Mexico. The
IDTANA consists of seven
regional branches: Mid Atlantic, Mid America, Western
US, Eastern Canada, Western Canada, New England and
Southern US.
The IDTANA operates in tandem with
An Coimisiun le Rince
Gaelacha in Dublin, Ireland. All members of
the IDTANA must be registered and certified as a TMRF, TCRG or ADCRG by An
Coimisiun. Additionally, North America currently has 23
voting members of An Coimisiun le Rince Gaelacha, which
includes the 7 Regional Directors along with two elected members
of each Region, the IDTANA Executive Board, and the elected
North American Vice Presidents of An Coimisiun.
The emphasis of the IDTANA is to promote Irish Dance
throughout North America. Through continued
cooperation with the North
American Feis Commission, each region regulates
Feiseanna in their area with a standardized syllabus of
competitions and rules.
Annually, the IDTANA
sponsors the North American Irish Dance Championships
during the first week of July. The "Nationals", as they
have become known as, is recognized as North America's secondary qualifying event for the
annual World Championships held each year around Easter
and sponsored by An Coimisiun le
Rince Gaelacha. The primary qualifying event for
dancers to qualify for the World Championships is their Regional Oireachtasi held in November and December each
year.
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2010 IDTANA Seminar and Workshop |
UPDATED
INFORMATION (here)
The
IDTANA will once again be hosting the 2010 IDTANA Workshop and
Symposium. The 2010 IDTANA Workshop and Symposium will be
open to all registered members and will be held at the New York
New York Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, NV on April 9-11,
2010. The Workshop will begin on Friday at noon (to allow for
travel into Las Vegas on Friday) and end before 3 p.m. on Sunday.
In addition, those individuals who are
looking to take their TCRG exam within the next 18 months are also
welcome to register and participate in the Ceili Workshop, the
Traditional Set Dance Workshop, and Injury Prevention Workshop.
Registration is necessary. Please
register here.
The goal of the Seminar has
always been to offer “continuing education” to the members of the
IDTANA and to prepare future teachers for their Exam - and to have roundtable discussions with our members to
improve dance throughout North America. This is the second full
Workshop that the IDTANA has hosted and we have made some
improvements from last year including offering a full new slate of
seminars and workshops – including a keynote address for all the
attendees.
Seminars will be held as
follows:
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Ceili Workshop
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Traditional Set Dance
Workshop
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Injury Prevention and
Stretching Techniques
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Adjudication Symposium with
North American Examiners for future ADCRGs
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Current Adjudication
Symposium
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NEW
- Grade Examiners Certification (limited to 35 participants)
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NEW
- Keynote Address and Presentation
In addition, to the
workshops, we are very pleased this year to offer a program for
those ADCRGs who wish to be certified by An Coimsiun le Rince
Gaelacha as a Grade Examiner. In order to further promote
Grade Exams and with the popularity of
Grade Exams in North America - the IDTANA, working along
with An Coimisiun, is happy to offer this certification program to
those who have been an ADCRG for more then 7 years (please
note, not 5 as previously announced). The program
will be conducted on Saturday April 10, 2010. In addition to
certifying new Grade Examiners, there will be a refresher course for
our existing Grade Examiners.
The keynote
address and presentation will be provided by Sean Connolly, a
renowned psychologist and presenter from Belfast who has worked with
many Irish dance schools throughout the world, and corporations such
as Bank of Ireland and the BBC.
To book hotel
accommodations, please use the following:
Online
Reservations:
Please use the
following link which will take you to the New York, New York
reservations website specifically set up for your group:
Online Reservations
Choose which date you
would like to check in and how many nights you will be staying and
click the "search availability" button. It will then take you
to what we have made available to you under your group rate.
If your satisfied with everything just click "book this room".
It will then ask you for your credit card information and give you a
confirmation code. Please keep this code as you will need it
upon check in.
Telephone
Reservations:
Reservations will be
telephoned directly to the Hotel Reservations Department at
800-693-6763 Option 2. In order to receive the group rate, callers
must make their reservations on or before the cut-off date of March
8, 2010 and identify their affiliation with SCIRIS0410. Rates cannot
be changed at check-in or check-out for guests who fail to identify
their affiliation at the time the reservation is made.
We are also please to announce a Workshop for future TCRGs where all
the Traditional Set Dances will be taught, and a review of all 30 of
the Ceili dances will be danced and taught. This program is
open to those who plan to take their TCRG or TMRF with An
Coimisiun within the next year.
Updated information is available
here. For more information, visit the
Vegas Workshop page where you
can find the link for Registration. Reservations at New Yor
New York Hotel and Casino will be available after February 1, 2010.
We encourage all members to attend.
If you have any questions, please
email IDTANA.
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2010 IDTANA Cyril McNiff
Scholarship Information and Applicaion |
Since the inception of the
Cyril McNIff Scholarship, the IDTANA has proudly awarded over $140,000
to dancers through out North America. The
Irish Dance Teacher's Association of North America is proud of the
accomplishments of all dancers - not only competitively and artistically
- but also academically.
To recognize the
accomplishments of these dancers who excel in the classroom and in the
dance studio, the IDTANA is proud to offer scholarships
totaling $20,000 in 2010 for high school senior students, and
those students who are already attending college.
Applications for 2010 are now available. Please note that
the application process for 2010 has changed and we ask that you
carefully review the information in the application packet for more
information. The Scholarships will be announced in early June,
2010 and a presentation of the scholarship winners will be held at the
North American Irish Dance Championships.
Michael Mullane ADCRG Russell
Beaton ADCRG
President, IDTANA
Scholarship Chairman
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2009 IDTANA Convention Minutes |
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The 2009 IDTANA Convention Minutes are
now available in the Member's Section. It is important that all
teachers read and take note of the minutes and acquaint themselves with
recent amendments.
Michael Mullane ADCRG
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2010 North American Irish Dance Championships
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The Irish Dancing Teacher's Association of North America, Inc. (IDTANA)
and the IDTANA-Mid Atlantic Region are proud to announce the dates and
location of their flagship world qualifying Irish dancing event for the
2010 dancing season. The North
American Irish Dancing Championships will be held:
THE WALT DISNEY WORLD SWAN & DOLPHIN
HOTELS, ORLANDO, FLORIDA
July
2 – July 7th, 2010
Schedule
and further information on
the competition is
available here. Room Bookings will be made on line through
the above website or by
telephone 1-800-227-1500 toll free or 1-407-934-2300 direct. Bookings
will open September 15th 2009 for teachers.
All other bookings open October 15th
2009.
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Recent Announcements
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Recent Announcements and
Information by the IDTANA can be found
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