We’re continuing to build the Kate Spanos Irish Dance name (new website coming soon!) and this fall we were featured at two local Irish festivals. In September, we were invited to perform at the CCÉ Irish Folk Fest and last weekend we performed at the Maryland Irish Festival, celebrating its 50th year.
That’s a wrap! We had a great first summer dance intensive throughout the month of July. It was wonderful working with this group of students and I’m already looking forward to next year! The summer dance intensive gave advanced Irish step dancers an opportunity to build technique, style, and repertoire through exploration within a variety […]
Over the past few years, I have been honing my vision for the kind of Irish dance classes I’d like to offer and we are finally here. I feel bolstered by all the many teachers I’ve studied with and been inspired by over my 35 (so far!) years of dancing and I’m thrilled to now have a weekly opportunity to work with students on the aspects of Irish dance that I love the most.
Kate Spanos Irish Dance performed two original choreographies in Tysons Corner on St. Patrick’s weekend and will present festival style Irish dance at two Maryland music and dance festivals on April!
Photo credit: Heather O'Steen Photography.
I’m delighted to share that I will be teaching a six-week festival style Irish dance series starting Friday, October 6 at District Irish Dance Academy in Tenleytown, Washington, DC.
After three years of intensive conversations and writing, my colleague Sinclair Ogaga Emoghene and I are excited to announce the release of our book, “Dancing in the World: Revealing Cultural Confluences.”
Today is the day! Episode 1 of Sinclair Emoghene’s and my podcast, “Dancing in the World,” premieres today on YouTube and Spotify. In this first episode, we introduce ourselves and talk about our lives as dancers and academics, as well as the impetus for writing our book together. We also discuss how this podcast continues […]
Check out this wonderful in-depth article about my frevo master, Otávio Bastos, and his teaching method, Mexe Com Tudo. The article was written by journalist Paula Passos for Recife’s Revista Continente.
Photo credit: Pablo Regis de Oliveira.
It was a beautiful day at the Southern Maryland Celtic Festival in St. Leonard, MD on Saturday! I presented a solo showcase of festival style Irish dance, the latest step in my mission to celebrate and share this gorgeous style. I presented four soft shoe pieces and three hard shoe pieces, with little bits of […]
Photo credit: Malika El Kawkabi, IMF
Last week, my nonprofit EducArte presented frevo at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) / World Bank 2023 Annual Spring Meetings. I performed with fellow passista Guilherme Antonio da Silva and with musicians Brian Falkowski (sax, flute, arrangement), Matvei Sigalov (guitar), Jon Steele (bass), and Joe Herrera (trumpet). We presented classic frevo songs like “Vassourinhas” and […]