You're biggest OOPS moments feis/show wise

Posted by Alonso Perez Trevinho on July 23, 2007 at 8:32am in Dancing Chat, Tips and Advice

I was spending some quality time here in Diddlyi trying to get unbored and thought about starting a thread of our embarrasing moments @ feis, show, etc...

Personally I always find myself 'oopsing' in everything that requires my dances infront of an audience.

The biggest one was when my irish group and I danced in TV...LIVE. Only 6 million people saw us, coast to coast and all. I was at the time under a lot of school pressure and my mind was not into dancing at the moment. So why not we danced a coreography that was created only two nights before. Of course my ignorance and mistakes were widely broadcasted. Plus! You could also see them in different angles!

Fortunately we were a success and still got to go with 1000 USD each as a price!

I've always found myself to be lucky as every mistake seemed to be unnoticed. I even got to get the 1st place in a feis after inventing a complete step of a jig!

So everyone is invited to comment and tell us about those moments you just want to forget...or laugh about!

Cheers!

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Permalink Reply by natasha bennett on July 23, 2007 at 4:17pm: the most embarrassing mistake ive made is in my 10th lesson Catherine the teacher said we were going to dance baby reel together and i started a totally different dance because i wasn't really concentrating but luckily nobody noticed and i just joined in again.[laughs].; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Lydie on July 24, 2007 at 12:56pm: Ho ho ho!! So....i forgot my whole hornpipe for the Oireachtas in Vienna in november 2006. I had to improvise my steps and I saw my school mates being doubled up with laugher....and my teacher's eyes wide open.
so funny but soooooo stressful too!!; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Sarah W. on August 1, 2007 at 1:21am: I walked around a feis the whole day with a peice of toilet paper stuck to my hardshoe. SO EMBARASSING.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Ellianne Hindmarsh on August 2, 2007 at 9:32am: the most embarrassing mistakeive i made was when i forgot my slip jig at corby feis because ive never forgot any dance before; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Ellianne Hindmarsh on August 1, 2008 at 8:44am: and at school i had to dance my hornpipe and my reel and luckly my teacher did not go because i sliped on my bum in hard shoes

but i bet i will have more embarssing moments because im only 9
from ellianne
thats all i have i think
oh no i had one more in my slip jig at flie costello i had most of my new slipjig to music and my teacher had not tourt me the rest and the music went on for ever i just had to think of some slipjig moves qnd i got so confused
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Permalink Reply by Kaleigh McClelland on August 3, 2007 at 7:14pm: During my slip jig I kicked another dancer in the butt.. lol.. and I totally forgot the rest of my Reel so I just stood there like a idiot trying to remember what it was.. LOL!!; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by wallywow on August 6, 2007 at 2:54pm: ever try to dance a reel to a jig; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Emily Land on January 31, 2008 at 1:12pm: Turn that into a T-shirt and I bet you make a million at your next feis!; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Hannah on July 23, 2008 at 9:47pm: haha thats a good story I remember when I was in beginners level I danced the reel 2 light jig music was really interesting thing (;; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Cecile Greard on January 22, 2008 at 11:44pm: At a feis, the most embarrassing moment was when my cape started coming off my dress and it confused me so much I stopped in the middle of my dance.
At a gig, it's when my skirt started coming off (yes, I do have a lot of "wardrobe malfunctions", ah, ah!), fortunately I stopped dancing and went backstage before anybody could really see anything!; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Christina on January 23, 2008 at 3:05am: That's the one great thing about not dancer audiences watching: they don't know when you make a mistake! Even at a feis, if a judge doesn't know your step, you can just wing it and still do well.

I once had my soft shoe come untied during a parade and had to chase after my four-hand!

Luckily that's the worst of it for me.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Brigid on January 27, 2008 at 11:16am: I slipped during my slip jig at a feis once. It was embarrassing because I started to cry while on stage! I was younger then. I hope that never happens again!; ▶ Reply to This