Gig Harbor & Olympia Irish Dance Camps.

Gig Harbor Camps:  August 8 – 11, 2022

Beginner & New Student Camp:  9:00 – Noon each day   $220 ($175 if registered before 5/15/22)

Advanced Beginner Camp:  9:00 – 1:00 each day                  $280 ($225 if registration is received before 5/15/22)

Olympia Camps:  August 15 – 18, 2022

Beginner & New Student Camp:  9:00 – Noon each day   $220 ($175 if registered before 5/15/22)

Advanced Beginner Camp:  9:00 – 1:00 each day                  $280 ($225 if registration is received before 5/15/22)

Prizewinner / Prelim Camp:  1:00 – 5:00 each day               $280 ($225 if registration is received before 5/15/22)

Open Champion Camp:  2:00 – 6:00 each day                         $280 ($225 if registration is received before 5/15/22)

Register Now for the Gig Harbor & Olympia Camps at: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSerQfN7dwxABdUHq2jd_jNCYW15zvdB97iNmfyUGOUHkgFv2g/viewform?usp=sf_link

Full information see the 2022 camp brochure:  2022 HPID Camp Brochure

Camp Tuition Payment

You can pay your Gig Harbor & Olympia camp tuition in two ways:

Kirkland Summer Camps 2022

Beginner Camp

August 12th 13th and 14th

12:30pm to 3pm

This camp is for our dancers who are currently taking one of our beginner classes, or brand new beginners who are looking to learn about Irish Dance.  Bring your Friends with you to camp if they want to learn too.  We will be working on some Soft shoe steps, learning Hard shoe drills, some fun Skills and Strengthening, But Mostly FUN!!  We will be doing some games, crafts, and stories too.  I am really looking forward to spending time with our Champs of the Future with this class.  Each day will be 2.5 hrs long.  The fee for this camp will be $100.  I will have two of the teen champs teaching camp with me.  So if your kid is still convinced I am Bigfoot, there will be fun gentle coaches there too.

Please sing up at:  https://www.signupgenius.com/go/30E094DAFA629A7F85-beginner

Champ Camp – August 5th 6th and 7th

Prelim Dancers 10am to 1:30pm

Open Dancers 11:30am to 3pm

Each group will have 1.5 hrs alone to working on new hard shoe material.  They will combine 11:30 to 1:30 to do Soft Shoe, crafts, skills & drills, and eat lunch.

This camp will be for our Prelim and Open dancers.  Three days with 3.5 hours of camp each day for both the Prelim and the Open dancers.  There will be an overlap each day where both levels will work together on Soft shoe, Skills and Drills, Outside guest, and Crafts.  The rest of the camp will be taught separately learning Hard shoe material.  I will be teaching each group a Soft shoe and a Hard shoe that they are able to put in their Oireachtas material if they wish.  We will also take time to polish existing material and perfect different tricks and skills.  This is the “Work Hard” camp.  The fee for this camp will be $140 for dancers who attend the weekend.  $100 for dancers who can’t attend but want the material from camp.

Please sign up at https://www.signupgenius.com/go/30E094DAFA629A7F85-roberts

Ceili and Set Camp 

August 12th 13th and 14th.  

9am to 12:30 pm.

This camp is for our dancers who are in the higher grade levels and our champs.  You need to be able to dance hard shoes proficiently to attend this camp.  We will be working on different sets.  I will be teaching the Three Sea Captains to any prelim dancer who doesn’t know it yet and would like a set that is more technical than the Hunt. We will polish Planxty Hugh and Planxty Davis.  I will also be teaching the Molyneaux Blackbird.  The Molyneaux sets are a group of traditional sets that come from Kerry and Cork.  They have become more popular recently and many dancers are competing the Molyneaux sets.  They are interesting trad sets and have many challenging and interesting movements and skills in them.  Definitely fun to learn.  I will also be teaching some ceili dances.  We will learn a new 2 hand or 3 hand depending on how many dancers sign up.  I would also like to review the four hand and learn the second figure.  This would be important for any dancers who would like to compete the four hand at the Oireachtas.  If there are enough dancers signed up for this camp, we will even start to learn one of the eight hand dances.  There will be a lot of material, but this camp will be for fun and hopefully encourage team building and school spirit among the dancers.  This camp will be 3.5 hours each day and $125.

Please sign up at: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/30E094DAFA629A7F85-ceili