Breaking up with your Irish dancing heavy shoes is hard to do! You are SO comfortable together now, so used to one another that you don’t even mind the worn leather, split seams and worn-out tips.

How is Irish dancing with jig shoes different than American tap dancing? A: Irish dancing is much more intricate and syncopated. There's also way more steps — probably 2,000 different steps.

LAGUNA HILLS – The small south Orange County studio echoed with the thwack of hard black shoes as dancers shuffled and tapped their way across the room.As they traversed the hardwood floor re… ...

The sets, performed in heavy shoes, are danced to a selection of traditional music and are the showcase performance for each dancer. In many ways, Irish dance has become a team sport.

HAMILTON — It’s a Thursday night at St. Raphael School, and a small group of students, some in leotards and soft shoes, are ready to learn simple dance moves from three instructors ...

Two Quebec teens used a science project to show why Irish dancing can lead to ankle, knee and hip injuries — and their results may help manufacturers build a better shoe.

The other round is heavy shoe, which is a percussive style of Irish dance with loud, intricate rhythms. Dancers who place in the top half then do a third dance.

Zachariah McLaughlin beat all but one of the dancers he competed against in Killarney last month, taking second place in the under-19 category of the An Chomhdhail World Irish Dance Championship.

As with many things Irish, step dancing has a long history. It is believed to have evolved more than 2,000 years ago, when Celtic druids danced in celebration of oak trees and the sun, according ...