Hey dancers!

Here are the rehearsal time slots for those who are taking part in Maynooths' Best Dance Crew!

Good morning guys! 

Reminder of classes today! 

12-1 Heels choreography with Leah! This class welcomes all levels of dance and heels are 100% optional!

HELL WEEK HAS ARRIVED!

 12-1PM 2-3PM 3-4PM

SEE YOU ALL IN THE HALL!

Have an amazing Monday everyone!

- Leah (PRO) x

Happy Monday everyone !

Today marks the first day of @maynooth_su “Mind Yourself” Mental Health campaign week! We hope you are all feeling okay today, and remember that it’s okay to not feel brave. If you ever need to talk to someone do not be afraid to message us, any of our committee, or any of our dancers! We welcome everybody with open arms!

Today we have a very special Body Positivity Heels workshop with Leah, this class will be specifically tailored for body positivity and confidence, and will be super fun! Heels are 100% optional! 

Today we have the AMAZING Robyn Keogh with Jazz choreo 2-3PM! Come on down for some amazing training! 

2-3PM in the Small Sports Hall today we are collaborating with Maynooth Africa Society, they will be coming in to teach us some Afrodance! You don’t wanna miss this! 

We are thrilled to have Meabh back teaching today! She will be Hip Hopping her way into the Small Sports Hall 3-4PM today for some Hip Hop! 

Cannot wait to see you all at classes! 

- Leah (PRO) x

Happy Tuesday everyone! Reminder of classes today! 12-1 Stretch and Flex with Rebecca & 1-2 Heels with Leah!  ALL PROCEEDS GO TO ATAXIA FOUNDATION IRELAND!

Have an amazing day beautiful people!

 - Leah (PRO) x

Happy Tuesday everyone! 

Today we have a special collaboration class with Media Soc to present to you.. OUR FIRST EVER FILMING CLASS! Media Soc have very kindly agreed to come in and film our routines and make sick videos for us! This class will be a heels class taught by Leah, and will be promoting body confidence and wellbeing as part of MSU’s “Mind Yourself” Campaign week! 

We hope to see you there! 

- Leah (PRO) x

Happy Tuesday beautiful people! Today we have two AMAZING classes for you!

 1-2PM Heels with Leah!

3-4PM Hip Hop with Aine!

Have an amazing day everyone! - Leah (PRO) 

Happy Tuesday everyone! Reminder of classes today! 12-1 Stretch and Flex with Rebecca & 1-2 Heels with Leah! ALL PROCEEDS GO TO ATAXIA FOUNDATION IRELAND! Have an amazing day beautiful people! - Leah (PRO) x

TIMETABLE NOTICE! 

Heels 1-2PM with Leah has been cancelled, it will now be an OPEN INTERVARSITIES SLOT for all Inters crews to come and practice! 

Today we are joining forces with the amazing Yoga Society for a pre- inters Yoga class!  They have very kindly arranged for those competing at Inters to go for free as it can be a stressful time for all! 

Hey everyone! 

Today 3-4PM we have Hip Hop (Beginners) in the Small Sports Hall! This class will be taught by the phenomenal Richie and is beginner friendly! Why don’t you pop down and give it a go? You never know where it may take you! 

Hope you all have a lovely Tuesday! 

- Leah (PRO) x

Happy Tuesday beautiful people!

Today we have two AMAZING classes for you!

1-2PM Heels with Leah!

3-4PM Hip Hop with Aine!

Have an amazing day everyone! - Leah (PRO) x

Get fit with Jordan 3-4PM in the Hall today for Dance Fitness! What an amazing and fun way to get fit before Inters and the summer! 

Hope to see you all at classes today! 

Reminder if our Bake Sale in the Arts Block 11-5PM! We cannot wait to see you all! 

Have an amazing day! 

- Leah (PRO) x

Get fit with Jordan 3-4PM in the Hall today for Dance Fitness! What an amazing and fun way to get fit before Inters and the summer! 

Hope to see you all at classes today! 

Reminder if our Bake Sale in the Arts Block 11-5PM! We cannot wait to see you all! 

Have an amazing day! 

- Leah (PRO) x

Today we have Jazz 12-1PM with Emma in the Small Sports Hall! 

This class welcomes all levels of dance! 

Today we have the AMAZING Emma with Commercial Jazz 12-1PM! All class are €2 and located in the Small Sports Hall in Phoenix! Pop down and dance with us! 

Today we have the amazing Elaine with advanced Irish 12-1PM! 

Come and bop down for an amazing class! 

- Leah (PRO) x

HELL WEEK DAY 3! 

So proud of everyone putting in copious amounts of work into these rehearsals! Intervarsities is exactly ONE WEEK AWAY and we cannot wait to perform and represent our University! 

Today we have 

12-1PM

4-5PM 

Come on down and rehearse if you don’t have class! 

- Leah (PRO) x

Good morning beautiful dancers!

What better way to start off your Wednesday morning with a stretch! Brought to you by our amazing Stretching and Flexibility teacher, Rebecca! Make sure to keep your eyes out for advanced stretches for those who are already fully comfortable in their splits! ?

Here are some beginners tips from Rebecca: -

All stretches should be held for 20 seconds while taking deep breaths. It is EXTREMELY important to warm up properly before stretching! Important note to keep hips facing front rather than twisting to the side and keeping yourself in an upright position during lunges and splits to let all your weight drop through the middle. 

 - Each stretch should be repeated on the other leg.

Make sure to tag us, message us, and keep us posted with your stretching progress! We hope you are all keeping safe and active during this difficult time, our DMs are always open if you need to chat! And dont worry... you’ll see us again VERY soon? Have a lovely day guys! ?????? - Leah (PRO) x

Good morning beautiful dancers! 

What better way to start off your Wednesday morning with a stretch!

Brought to you by our amazing Stretching and Flexibility teacher, Rebecca!

Here are some advanced tips from Rebecca:

- All stretches should be held for 20 seconds while taking deep breaths. It is EXTREMELY important to warm up properly before stretching! Important note to keep hips facing front rather than twisting to the side and keeping yourself in an upright position during lunges and splits to let all your weight drop through the middle.

- Each stretch should be repeated on the other leg.

- For advanced stretching, these stretches are only for people fully comfortable in splits, all stretches should be held for 20 seconds while taking deep breaths. The stretch bands can be replaced with a dressing gown tie or even a T-shirt or something! The wall split stretch can also be done in a doorframe.

Make sure to tag us, message us, and keep us posted with your stretching progress! We hope you are all keeping safe and active during this difficult time, our DMs are always open if you need to chat! And dont worry... you’ll see us again VERY soon! Have a lovely day guys!

- Leah (PRO) x

Today we have Lyrical with the fabulous Emily! 

This class welcomes all levels of dance, and is surely not to be missed!

We are holding a Dance class in the SU Venue in collaboration with Mental Health Society and Young Mentality Movement. 

This class will be taught by Leah, and in the dark! The aim of this class is to create a fun, relaxed, and non pressured environment amongst people, as we understand that dance class can be a little overwhelming at times. This class is open to all, and welcomes all levels of dance!

We cannot wait and we hope you are excited as we are!

4-5PM today we have Rebecca with Beginners Lyrical! Open to all levels! All classes €2 and located in the Small Sports Hall in Phoenix! 

Today we have Musical Theatre with the fabulous Claire! 4-5PM in the Small Sports Hall! 

All classes €2! 

Presenting...our annual Ice Skating trip! Taking place on Wednesday the 18th of December, we have organized a bus to and from Blanchardstown Ice Rink, and it will be leaving at 5PM SHARP from the SU on the Wednesday evening ?

This trip is 15 euro per person,
this 15 euro includes your return bus to and from Maynooth, and your Ice Skating pass?

Please bring with you:
Money for food beforehand in wetherspoon? if you plan on getting some!) Warm clothes
Optional christmas jumper (?) Please note: For insurance reasons, all members planning on coming Ice Skating with us, must be a member of Dance Society on MU Life! (otherwise you cannot attend!) Tickets can be purchased online through our eventbrite link (in bio) otherwise you can arrange to meet up with one of our committee members if you wish to pay by cash (BEFORE Tuesday evening) we will NOT be accepting any 15 euros on Wednesday.

We hope to see you there! Help us finish off the year with a BANG ?? (and a fall on the ice ?) - Leah (PRO) x

Hey Dancers! 

TODAY 1-2pm we have Break Dancing with Darragh in the Small Sports Hall!

This is a brand new class and we are sooo excited for Darragh to show us how to Break Dance! 

All classes 2 euro! 

Have an amazing week all x 

TODAY we have Stretching and Flexibility at 12-1PM with the amazing Rebecca!

This class is specifically tailored for improving both your strength, and flexibility which can really help with dancing!

We hope you are as excited as we are!

SMALL SPORTS HALL PHOENIX

ALL CLASSES 2 EURO

- Leah (PRO) X

Today we have a fab Stretch and Flex class from Rebecca 12-1PM in the Small Sports Hall! Come on down and stretch with us! All classes €2 and all levels are welcome! 

- Leah (PRO) x

Sore muscles? Need a stretch? Come on down to the Small Sports Hall 12-1PM today for a fab Stretching and Flexibility Class with our very own Rebecca! €2 per person with all donations welcome to Ataxia Foundation Ireland! 

Have an amazing day dancers! 

- Leah (PRO) x

Today we also have a Contemporary Hip Hop class from Shanise 1-2PM in the Small Sports Hall! Come on down and dance with us! All classes €2 and all levels are welcome!

- Leah (PRO) x

We are THRILLED to have Jodie come back to teach us a Commercial Class today! 1-2PM you DO NOT want to miss this! 

All classes €2 with all donations welcome! 

All proceeds go to Ataxia foundation ireland! 

- Leah (PRO) x

Come and finish off charity week with us with an amazing lyrical class with Rebecca! She is so amazing! This class is specifically tailored for beginners, but welcomes all levels as always! 

Have an amazing day as always guys! 

- Leah (PRO) x

Hey everyone!

Along with our weekly dance tutorials and demos, we are going to be making daily lockdown to do lists, as we have gathered that something as simple as a short “to do” list can really help shape your day, and keep your brain ticking during these difficult and challenging times.

Here is todays to do list!

We hope you can get some sort of positivity from this, and we hope you have the best day!

- Leah (PRO) x

Hey dancers!

We hope you and your families are all keeping well during these uncertain and difficult times. We are all trying to remain positive here in the Dance Soc world by staying connected, staying active, staying positive, and staying hopeful. 

We are really enjoying some online dance classes that many dance schools and dancers have been providing on various platforms. 

Here are some accounts that we would highly recommend you follow for weekly live online FREE classes in which you can keep dancing and keep active! 

1. @flydancestudio on Instagram, Fly Dance Studio are Irelands leading dance school, they are currently providing weekly online Instagram live classes, live meditation sessions, and livestreams in which you can chat with everyone and remain connected. 

2. @dcu_dance (Instagram)  - Our lovely friends over at DCU Dance are providing some really challenging and amazing challenges and dance classes in which everyone can get involved in! They had a commercial class over on their Instagram live this evening in which was super fun!

3. @royaltdancers (Instagram) are doing amazing body positivity heels classes live on their Instagram feed every week!

4. @monstersdance have an amazing Youtube and Instagram account with some amazing and challenging FREE dance tutorials in which you would pay big money for physically!

We hope you are staying active and positive x

With love, 

MU Dance xx

Throwback Thursday to our Mixed Piece crew being crowned 3rd place winners at Intervarsities last week! What an incredible moment! 

Stay tuned on our MU life page and our other Social Medias on how you can stay involved during self isolation! 

- MU Dance 

Instagram: @mudancesoc

Facebook: Maynooth Dance Soc

As we all isolate at home, we reflect on what we experienced this time last week at Dance Intervarsities. We are so unbelievably proud of every single one of our dancers who competed last week at Intervarsities, regardless of results you all did MU Dance so so proud on that stage!

Not to mention we came THIRD place in mixed piece! Congratulations to our mixed piece crew who cane 3rd place, it was such a tough competition on the day and we are so so proud of you all!

We are so blown away by the level of professionalism, sportsmanship, and talent in which we witnessed over the few days, you were all so supporting of each other and of other colleges, I didn’t think it was possible to morph into an even bigger family than what we were, but there is always room at the in...for anyone. We hope you are all resting up, washing your hands, and minding yourselves at this difficult time, we have so so much hope that we will all be reunited super super soon.

With love, MU Dance X

Hey dancers! 

Since we will be away in Galway from Tuesday to Thursday competing in Dance Intervarsities, there will be NO day classes this week! We will resume with classes once reading week is over! 

Have an amazing week and we will see you when we are back! 

Best of luck to all of our Intervarsities crews competing and representing the University this week, you have all worked so so hard & we are so unbelievably proud of every single one of you! 

Lets go MU dance! 

Hey Dancers!

This week, to facilitate Intervarsities Rehearsals there will be NO DAY CLASSES from the 2nd - 6th of March. (As Intervarsities takes place next week) For Intervarsities crews... IT’S HELL WEEK! HELL WEEK TIMETABLE SLOTS ARE FOR INTERVARSITIES CREWS ONLY! NO ACADEMIC CLASS? COME TO THE HALL AND REHEARSE. THIS IS YOUR LAST WEEK TO NAIL DOWN ROUTINES BEFORE INTERS. Please co operate with your choreographers this week by rehearsing in the hall when you are free, we have worked super hard up until now and its time to give it one last final push before the competition!

This is also your LAST evening rehearsal, so please make sure you attend. Every minute of practice goes a long way. A committee member will be available at each slot to provide the speaker. Note for crews to be kind with the speaker and share it, we are all in the same boat. Well done to all choreographers and crews for working so hard, we are at the last leg of it now so its so important that we give it our very best with practise. If you cannot attend any hell week slots that your choreographer wants you to attend, please text them and explain before the rehearsal slot. Happy hell week and happy dancing!

- Leah (PRO) x