Is an Irish river dance and an Irish line dance the same thing?

If you really want to learn you have to take classes. You could search on the Internet for a school.Once you learned a number of dances you can compete at a feis (irish dance competition).I have been...

Being Irish myself I can safely say "technically" no. Well the main majority don't anyways BUT we ALL can fake it very very well. We can fake it well enough so that non-Irish people don't notice the...

A reel is a type of Irish dance and it is danced in soft-shoe. A treble reel is the hard-shoe version, with the same type of music.

I know all this because I have been doing Irish dance for several years and have seen the River Dance.     I should know. I do it. :)