Welcome to the Friends of McGahan Lees Irish Dance Academy website.
This site is intended for Irish dancers all over the world -- from pre-feis beginners to world championship contenders. Family and friends of dancers, and anyone thinking of starting Irish dancing lessons, should also find it of great interest -- especially the beginners area. Have a good look round!
Please note that this site is maintained by dancers' parents - NOT a qualified dance teacher (click 'read me!' on the top menu bar for more details).
We have just emailed our final timetable out to teachers, and it is available for download from our Open Feis page.
The timetable has only changed slightly to reflect entries received over the last week or so. It is now based upon 100% recall in both the Open and Preliminary Championships.
Wellpark Scotland will be filming a documentary about Irish Dancing at the McGahan Lees Open Feis on the 14th of March with full permission from the organisers and An Comisiún. If you are present and do not wished to be filmed, please make yourself known to a member of the production team.
We are proud to announce that Debbie Leavens (née McGahan) has passed her TCRG exam. Everyone who knows Debbie will already be aware of her dedication and love for Irish dancing, and her ability to pass on her own skills to the next generation of dancers. Debbie is well known within our community, both as a world-championship standard dancer, and as a long-term member of Riverdance, and we are sure that everyone, both within and outside the McGahan Lees Academy, would want us to pass on their congratulations to Debbie.
Our 2010 Syllabus is now available, and we are emailing it to teachers at the moment, region by region. For more information, see our Open Feis 2010 page.
We are receiving a number of membership requests that are obviously from people who have nothing to do with Irish dancing, and we are just as obviously rejecting these. However, the only way we can judge whether these requests are genuine or not is by looking at the chosen username and the email address supplied.
A bunch of McGahan Lees dancers met up on Saturday for a brilliant day letting off steam at Thorpe Park. We're still waiting for pictures of everyone who went, but this crazy bunch is probably representative.
CLICK THE PICTURE!
We now have our new photo gallery up and running -- see the link beneath the banner heading, above.
We've sorted out a few of the photographs from the old site, but we really need good, new pictures of McGL dancers -- any age, any grade -- so if anyone has any to send us, please email them.
A small reminder -- wherever you see a photograph on the site, clicking it will usually bring up a larger version.
We love this pic of two pairs of sisters at the North American Irish Dance Championships. Click the 'Read More' link to find out who they are, and click the picture to see a larger version!