Welcome! While the online learning platform for traditional percussive dance tutorials is in development, we're using this site as a space for Irish step, sean-nós, and clogging teachers around the world to share a few steps for you to learn and enjoy this Saint Patrick's Day season. We hope you enjoy!

Homegrown Sessions

Dancers from around the world have been grounded,

so we're coming together to share

some of our favorite simple moves with you

while we all enjoy an unusual at-home Saint Patrick's Day season.

beginners welcome!

Since all of our teaching and performing engagements canceled for the foreseeable future, we're so grateful we get to connect with you here. Please consider making a donation to the dancers who have made this experience possible.

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Meet the dancers

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Evie Ladin

Banjo player, singer, songwriter, percussive-dancer, choreographer and square-dance caller, Evie grew up steeped in traditional folk music/dance, and brings a contemporary vision to her compositions and choreography. Evie’s performances, recordings and teaching reconnect Appalachian music/dance with other African-Diaspora traditions, and have been heard from A Prairie Home Companion to Lincoln Center, Hardly Strictly Bluegrass to Celtic Connections. Based in Oakland, CA, Evie tours with Keith Terry and the Evie Ladin Band; and has produced 8 CDs and two flatfoot clogging instructional DVDs. In the percussive dance world, she is Executive Director of the International Body Music Festival, directs the moving choir MoToR/dance, does educational outreach with Crosspulse, and is an ace freestyle flatfooter. In the trad world, Evie teaches clawhammer banjo and harmony singing at the infamous Freight & Salvage, online at Peghead Nation and numerous camps and events. She leads rowdy square dance parties, getting every body easily dancing. In the songwriter world, she just writes great songs, subtitling her own band “neo-trad kinetic folk." In 2019 she released two CDs, celebrating both of her musical sides: one totally trad fiddle/banjo duets with 17 different fiddlers, Riding the Rooster, and her fourth of adventurous originals, Caught On A Wire. A highly entertaining performer, Evie enjoys facilitating arts learning in diverse communities. Clogger Evie Ladin set the house afire. –DANCE MAGAZINE www.evieladin.com

Anna Lethert

Anna is a dancer from Minneapolis, specializing in Irish sean-nós dance. She has recently returned from living in Ireland for nearly a decade, where she worked as a dance teacher and performer. Anna has performed at festivals in the USA, Ireland and Europe, with acclaimed artists such as Altan, Lankum, Liz Carroll, and Paddy Keenan. In 2016/17 Anna was presenter and performer with the Tunes in the Church traditional/folk concert series in Dublin. Anna regularly performs with her husband Danny Diamond, and previously guested on his 2014 debut album, Fiddle Music. In the Twin Cities, Anna collaborates with her lifelong friend and fellow dancer, Danielle Enblom.

Siobhan Butler

Siobhan Butler is an acclaimed performer and teacher of sean-nós and set dancing. She has been featured in many settings including RTE and TG4 in Ireland and the prestigious Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, TN. Siobhan has performed and collaborated with many leading traditional artists including Kevin Burke, Cherish the Ladies, Nic Gareiss, Tony DeMarco, Kieran Jordan, Patrick Ourceau & Tony McManus, Atlantic Steps, as well as a European tour with the renowned Irish dance show, Rhythm of the Dance. With over 20 years of experience, Siobhan’s dancing has been described as musical, joyful, and exciting. Her expertise in Irish dance traditions is showcased through in-demand workshops, demonstrations, and lectures. She has taught master classes internationally at The University of Limerick, Gran Bal Trad Vialfre, Boston College, Villanova University, Milwaukee Irish Fest, and Sean-Nós Northwest to name a few. Siobhan is a graduate of Goddard College, and the University of Limerick, where she received a BA in Anthropology and a MA in Ethnochoreology, respectively.

Danielle Enblom

First and foremost an Irish step dancer and sean-nós dancer, Danielle grew up dancing competitively in Irish dance and studying ballet and modern
dance. She is influenced by her studies with dancers from many practices and paradigms, most notably Peggy McTeggart in Country Cork a direct component of the nineteenth century Cork dancing masters, and sean-nós, Cormac O'Shea of Dublin and the original Riverdance cast, and Kieran
Jordan of Boston, MA. Danielle holds a Diploma in Traditional Irish Music from University County Cork and a MA in Ethnochoreology from the
Tralee Institute of Technology.

Jackie O'Riley

Jackie O'Riley spent her formative dance years in the Irish set dancing community in Boston, MA. Over the past decade and a half, she has ardently sought out old-style or traditional step dancing, sean-nós dance, and set dancing and is now a respected performer and teacher, with a unique repertoire that includes older steps she’s collected from masters and field footage, and original material she’s composed. Jackie performs and teaches in the US, Canada, and Ireland, was an original member of the touring sean-nós dance show Atlantic Steps, and recently performed at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin as part of Na Píobairí Uilleann's production, "The Sound of Ireland". In 2019 she released a ground-breaking and first-of-its-kind visual album of Irish dance titled From the Floor. She founded, directs, and teaches O’Riley Irish Dance, a unique, non-competitive dance program for youth now in its 10th year, and is the co-recipient of a 2017 grant for choreographers through the Boston Foundation. Above all, she believes in prioritizing musicality in dancing, being a part of the wider musical and traditional community, and maintaining the joy that drew her to the tradition in the first place.

Samantha Harvey

Samantha Harvey, originally from California but now residing in Sligo, is a prominent traditional music and dance performer. Highly-skilled in step dancing and also as an instrumentalist on piano and accordion, Samantha has performed throughout the world with groups such as Téada, Ireland The Show, Irish Christmas in America, and Celtic Journey. This performance work has involved concerts, festivals and teaching in Japan, Taiwan, Malaysia, Europe and the United States. Samantha was privileged to perform as seannós dancer in RTÉ’s Centenary 2016, broadcast live on television from the Bord Gáis Energy Theatre in Dublin.