FactivaFactivaDow Jones SE GO HD Step lively/ Students get their kicks from school BY Susan Warmbrunn; The Gazette WC 1557 words PD 16 March 2001 SN The Gazette SC CSP PG GO18 LA English CY (Copyright 2001) LP Matt Fitzgibbons's feet are flying hummingbird-fast, rapping a rhythm on the hardwood floor upstairs at Jack Quinn's Restaurant and Irish Pub. One moment, the 6-foot-tall, slender dancer almost hovers, the next his hard-heeled shoes pound down like angry hail. Tomorrow on St. Patrick's Day, plenty of people will be toasting the Emerald Isle, but for such students as 16-year-old Fitzgibbons of St. Brendan's School of Irish Dance, the green land of Eire influences their everyday life. TD Still, March is the busiest time of year for the students, who have more than 20 performances today and on St. Patty's Day. They'll be stepping out everywhere from retirement homes to country clubs, and on Saturday, they'll take to the streets during the St. Patrick's Day parade in Old Colorado City. St. Brendan's teaches Irish step dancing - don't call it clogging - the style that saw its popularity skyrocket in this country as a show called "Riverdance" created an Irish dancing craze in the mid- 1990s. But Matt says it wasn't "Riverdance" that started him stepping. Rather, it was his older sister, Megan, who began taking lessons at St. Brendan's more than three years ago. Matt followed her out on the wooden floor and now he has qualified to compete in the World Championships of Irish Dance, an international contest held yearly, in Ireland. (The championships were scheduled for April, but this week it was announced they will be postponed due to the outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in Europe.) He played high school hockey last year but the goalie gave it up this season to focus on treble jigs. He can see similarities between skating on a rink and dancing a jig. "In hockey, you've got frozen objects flying at you. In dancing, you have others' feet," the teen says, trying to talk over the loud music at Quinn's. And no, he says in answer to a question, "None of my friends mock me because I dance." Dancing leaves his calves sore, his legs aching, but it lets him lose himself for a few fast and furious minutes. "I get so involved in my steps, I forget about other things," says Matt. "When I'm mad at something I just go downstairs and beat the floor for a while - then I'm happy." On a recent Wednesday night, the dances performed by the students of St. Brendan's seem to embody a whole gamut of emotions. Three girls clasp hands up high as they do a three-hand reel, like they're dancing round a maypole. Other dances rap out distinctive rhythms - there's the common 2/4 time of hornpipes or the 6/8 time of double jigs or 9/8 tempo of slip jigs. During solo dances, upper bodies are held rigid but looking relaxed, arms straight at the dancer's side. But below the waist, legs snap at the air, feet practically whip up wind, kicking high in front of the face and behind the back. "We always say Irish dancers kick butt," says Vikki Beauprez, an adult student at the school. After Beauprez's now 15-year-old daughter saw "Riverdance" on video about four years ago, she became "relentless," begging her mom for lessons, Beauprez said. Beauprez made "a bizillion phone calls" and finally found Judy DeNapoli, who had a school in Denver and had just started holding lessons in Colorado Springs. Beauprez took her daughter to classes and watched from the back of the room. She started thinking: "I'm the Irish one. I can count to three and seven and not fall over. This might not be pretty, but I'm going to try it." She still takes classes today. "If you do it once, you're just kind of hooked," she says. Like Matt and Beauprez, DeNapoli fell in love with the dancing the first time she saw it at an Irish fest in Wisconsin about 15 years ago. She returned to Denver, started taking lessons, then began dancing competitively. About five years ago, she took the two-day test required to become a certified teacher of Irish dance. There are more than 400 certified instructors of Irish dance in North America, DeNapoli says. She taught adult classes with the Colorado Free University before starting her own school in Denver in 1997. DeNapoli started with about 20 students. Now she has 120 students in Colorado Springs and 110 in Denver, where she lives. About 20-30 people are on her waiting list. St. Brendan's students range in age from kindergartners to adults. DeNapoli says about 50 percent of her students are under 10, and the rest older, including students in their 50s. Some students decided to step-dance because of their Irish heritage; others see it as a fun form of exercise or a chance to follow the footsteps of Riverdancers. More than half of St. Brendan's students take it so seriously, they join in one of six Irish dancing competitions in the Denver area each year, DeNapoli says. This year, five dancers from the school qualified to compete in the Worlds. In the small world of Irish dancers, fame is coming to St. Brendan's, but you won't find the school listed in the Colorado Springs phone book. It's become so popular by word of mouth, it doesn't pay to publicize. But St. Brendan's doesn't exactly keep a low profile. The last Wednesday of every month, students perform at Jack Quinn's, as they have for four years, with the Mountain Road Ceili Band putting live music under their feet. They dance their way across the floors of pubs, libraries and fairgrounds. For DeNapoli, the day is a "celebration of all things Irish," a chance to thank a country more than 4,000 miles away for creating an art that could travel so far on foot. For more information about St. Brendan's go to the Web site: www.stbrendansschool.com[http://www.stbrendansschool.com/] or call (303) 771-1209. Classes in Colorado Springs and Denver have waiting lists. If you go WHAT: Ceili with the Mountain Road Ceili Band and St. Brendan's Irish Dancers WHERE: Youth Outreach Center, 1801 N. Union Blvd. WHEN: 7-11 p.m. March 24 TICKETS: $5 in advance at Jack Quinn's, Leprechaun Shoppe, Scottish and Irish Regalia Shoppe/$7 at the door/ children 3-12 $3. FOR MORE INFORMATION: Call St. Brendan's at (303) 771-1209 and leave a message on the answering machine. Parade Students from St. Brendan's School of Irish Dance will be among the entries in the annual St. Patrick's Day Parade at noon Saturday in Old Colorado City. It runs down West Colorado Avenue, from 19th to 27th. Who was St. Brendan? St. Brendan was an Irish monk born in the Middle Ages who, according to legend, embarked on a seven-year voyage across the Atlantic in search of the Garden of Eden. The adventurer and optimist became the patron saint of sailors. A wee history of Irish dancing The Irish probably have been dancing since they were known as Celts around the third century B.C. But few cultural histories survived centuries of invasions. The Anglo-Normans conquered Ireland in 1170. For centuries the English tried to suppress Irish culture, forcing some traditions underground. But by the mid- 1500s, different dances start popping up in the records. Some say the modern form of Irish dancing really began around 1750, when dance masters started traveling to Irish counties, spending weeks in a village teaching traditional dances. They taught in kitchens, in barns and at the crossroads. At the end of the 1800s, the Gaelic League was founded to encourage the revival of Irish culture. Then, about 35 years later in 1929, the Irish Dancing Commission was created to establish rules regarding teaching, judging and competitions. The commission created a book that recorded the details of the ceili dances, down to the number of beats a move should take. At competitions, dancers have to dance "by the book." Dance styles have changed over time, but the Irish live "with the way things have been," says Judy DeNapoli, the head of St. Brendan's School of Irish Dance. The modern costumes take many of their designs and colors from the Book of Kells, an illuminated manuscript of the Gospels created in the mid-eighth century that's kept at Trinity College in Dublin. Sources: "Irish Step Dancing: A Brief History" by Don Haurin and Ann Richens of the Richens Academy of Irish Dancing in Ohio; Judy DeNapoli of St. Brendan's School of Irish Dance. ART INFOBOX; BLACK & WHITE PHOTO; Caption: Photos by Molly Van Wagner/The Gazette - From left, Sarah Herman, Kellina Rogers and Megan Fitzgibbons Irish step-dance at Jack Quinn's on a recent Wednesday. Students of St. Brendan's School of Irish Dance perform at the pub the last Wednesdays of every month.; A step dancer from St. Brendan's School of Irish Dance entertains a crowd at Jack Quinn's. The school has students in Colorado Springs and Denver -and a waiting list for both cities. IPD ARTS & STAGE | Fitzgibbons, Matt | Beauprez, Vikki | DeNapoli, Judy AN Document csp0000020010721dx3g002wn SE News HD Illinois State awards 1,093 bachelor's degrees WC 1301 words PD 9 February 2009 SN The Pantagraph SC BLM PG A4 LA English CY © 2009 The Pantagraph. Provided by ProQuest Information and Learning. All Rights Reserved. LP NORMAL - A total of 1,093 students at Illinois State University completed requirements for the bachelor's degree at the end of the fall session. 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