So here is Irelands performance on Saturday's Eurovision Dance contest.
On Saturday the 6th of September, fourteen couples took the floor to compete in the second Eurovision Dance Contest. Each couple included professional dancer and a national celebrity and the couples had just two minutes to show the world what they could do and convince us to vote for them!
Ireland's entry, Gavin O'Fearraigh & Dearbhla Lennon, came 11th out of 14. Not as good as we had hoped for here at IDM!
We haven't had a chance to talk to the couple yet to get thier reactions but here are a few of our initial observations:
1. It was nice they tried to incorperate the traditional steps into thier dance, to show a bit more of the Irish culture- many of the other countries did tango, or latin, and didn't bother to incorperate any national steps into their dances!
2. We loved the costumes ( see below) but the IDM fashion crew think that Dearbhla should have worn dark tights. All the other dancers in the competition wore high heals but our guys were obviously wearing hard shoes which in comparison to the others, looked a little strange. For those of us familiar with the shoes they look normal, but to the rest of the world they looked a bit clumpy in especially when set next to a set of 4 inch glittery stilettos! Dark tights would have hleped to disguise the clumpy nature perhaps??
3. Why didn't the guys go for a full on Irish routine. The music sounded Turkish even though it was by IDMs fave Irish band Kila?? As we all know, when full on Irish dance is done well, it looks amazing! The guys watered down the routine with other styles and it didn't have the same wow factor! Shame!
4. But all in all we are so proud of Gavin & Dearbhla! Well done guys!
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