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 Emily Land on January 31, 2008 at 1:17pm: So far I have had only one feis. There were 3 of us in the Adult Beginner Hornpipe. I thought I would be better off dancing alone because I feared hearing the other person's steps would throw me off. I started out ok (not great) and then made the mistake of making eye contact with someone I knew in the audience. Stopped Deat Flat. Counted 5,6,7 and took off again. Came in 3rd out of 3 (no surprise there). The judges comments were funny (timing off). She didn't look up most of the time so I'm guessing she never noticed anything but a interruption in the rhythm.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by StefanS on January 31, 2008 at 11:17pm: At one feis......when I was dancing a slow jig.....I swear......that musician slowed down when I slowed down and speeded up when I speeded up. I got sick of it and stopped and grunted at the musician and the judge. The judge laughed and he made me do the whole dance anyway. I swear....it was the musician :-) (*pulling an angel-face*); ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by StefanS on January 31, 2008 at 11:36pm: show-wise.......during redcoats.....my left shoe was not tied properly and was falling off! That was the HARDEST moment to prevent my shoe from falling off!!! Just imagine!!! After that, I put 5 or 6 elastics over the laces to prevent that from ever happening again!!!; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Magda on February 2, 2008 at 9:21pm: I can't remember my biggest 'oops', but last year, when I was helping at the City of Dublin Championships, a boy in the championship clicked his heel off in his reel... Couldn't fix it, and all the stalls were already closed, so he couldn't buy a new pair. He quit the competition :(.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Sylvie on February 10, 2008 at 10:33am: I totally forgot my hornpipe once at a feis ... very embarrassing. Funny thing was though, EVERYone in that competition either messed up or fell (nobody got hurt though), so the judge let us all dance again!!

I once also (it wasn´t in a competition though) confused a hornpipe with a fast heavy jig ... it felt ever so fast to me and I got very worried because I couldn´t do my step that fast ... haha! God, I´m just such a dork!; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Jeannie Quall on July 24, 2008 at 1:05am: During a Holiday afternoon recital we were dancing with little kids and I was suppose to partner with one to dance off stage and my partner was nowhere to be found so I was just going to dance off and I was in the middle of the stage and someone called my name and I turned around and stopped right in the middle of the stage and said 'What' and no one but me was on stage and no idea who it was or why they called my name and finally I turned around and danced off the stage before we came back on again. The night show went fine and I got the DVD of both shows and during that part of the dance on the afternoon show, the video people spliced in that part from the night dance, otherwise is was the afternoon show.
Not sure what the audience thought but it wasn't my greatest moment in my dance life.
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Permalink Reply by Josefine Cairns on July 27, 2008 at 12:56pm: Haha.
I remember at a festival in Germany pretty near my house and some people i know came there and then in a dance where my friend and I were alown on stage my skirt started falling off my body .. and i kinda didn´t notice until i saw my mum telling me with her hands that i shoudl pull my skirt up while i was dancing .... kinda awkward moment .. but i can laugh about it now .. ;D; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Mara on July 27, 2008 at 7:19pm: Mine wasn't actually during a show or a competition. We went to a restaurant about a month ago and at one point I go to the bathroom with another girl in my dancing class and we discover a big ceiling-to-floor-mirror on a wall. It's really tempting, so we start humming and dancing St. Patrick's day when this guy comes in, sees us and he's like: "Huh?!?" and starts laughing and grinning at us immediately. We haven't danced in a public restroom ever since! :D; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Kim on July 29, 2008 at 5:08pm: Hmmm to me one of the worst things in front of an audience was dancing the St Patricksday together with 2 others. We'd only practised it with the 3 of us together the class before... and all 3 of us actually messed up the dance, mostly at different times.

Great experience, first time on hard shoes for an audience and messing up that badly!; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Aaron on August 8, 2008 at 6:53pm: I was doing my novice reel at a feis once and I was one of the last ones to go. Anyways, I noticed that the judge was looking at me for a while so I tried to make every click as high as I can. I was wanting to get 1st so bad but turns out that I made one of my clicks too high and I fell onto my back. But hey, as ironic as that sounds I still got 2nd place so I'm happy.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Anita Koorn on August 8, 2008 at 8:51pm: For some reason I always screw up my trad. set dance at a feis. The class before it's fine, the moment I get on stage, I end up doing stupid things, like ending with the wrong leg etc. Unfortunatly, judges will know when you screw up your trad. !

At my school's End of Year show my group had severe wadrope malfunctions: loosing head bands, shoes etc. plus half of the group didn't have the slightest idea of what they were supposed to do (mmm....maybe they should have been ther more often.....); ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by reel treble maker on August 11, 2008 at 4:51am: once, when i was in Pu11, i broke my growth plate in my heel, yet i still danced a 3 hour class( we diddnt know then, but when my shoe didnt fit, we knew sumthing was worng:0) then i danced at my school f eis and my friends dad taped my foot up soo much that it was turning colors( but it fit into my shoe!) during the hardshoe, everything was fine, until the very last thing in my last step, which was a huge stamp. i forgot about my hurtin foot, and slammed down on it! u could say i got a wake up call! lol. then during the slipjig, i danced against another girl in my svhool, so we were trying to stay away from each other. some how we ended up next to each other at the end and i was slightly in front of her. well we did a kick to end our step and she hit my arm and it swung around in a complete circle!! everyone was hysterical, even the judjes, especially the one we did it right in front of!! i never knew your arm could do that in a solo dress!!that went down was one of the best feis' in awhile!!; ▶ Reply to This