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TEACHERS
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SCHOOL
BIO
WORLD
CHAMPION
HALL
OF FAME
TEACHERS
BIO
CLASS
SCHEDULE
NEWS
and EVENTS
LOCATIONS
PETRI
DANCERS RESULTS
FEIS SYLLABUS &
STAGE ASSIGNMENT
PETRI
FEIS RESULTS
THROUGH
THE YEARS
LINKS
PAST OIREACHTAS & WORLD
.1st. PLACE WINNERS
AVAILABLE FOR SHOWS
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Lisa
started dancing in 1973. She passed
her TCRG (TEACHING) exam, November, 1990 and the ADCRG (ADJUDICATOR)
exam in 1998. Lisa is a member of the IRISH DANCING TEACHERS
ASSOCIATION OF NORTH AMERICA, EASTERN REGION and
of AN COIMISIUN LE RINCI GAELACHA (THE IRISH DANCING
COMMISSION). Lisa was taught by 5 teachers during
her 18 years of competition, the last being Peter Smith in
Elizabeth, New Jersey. She also had the opportunity
to take classes from the Maguire/O’Shea Academy in London,
England during her college junior year abroad. Lisa competed
throughout the United States, Canada, Ireland, Scotland, Wales,
and England. Lisa won the U.S. Eastern Regional Dancing
Championship twice and placed second seven other times.
At the 1989 World Championship in Galway, Ireland, Lisa, representing
the U.S. Eastern Region, placed fourteenth to become the first
and only competitor in her age group from the Eastern Region
to ever win a World medal. Lisa graduated from Cornell
University in 1989. Lisa retired as a Vice President
in corporate lending for Fleet Bank in 1997, to teach dancing
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Karen
started dancing
in 1974. She passed her TCRG (TEACHING) exam, January, 1992
and the ADCRG (ADJUDICATOR) exam in 2000. Karen is a member
of the IRISH DANCING TEACHERS ASSOCIATION OF NORTH AMERICA,
EASTERN REGION and of AN COIMISIUN LE RINCI GAELACHA
(THE IRISH DANCING COMMISSION). Karen danced
for the same five teachers as Lisa. Karen spent the summer
of 1990 in London taking classes from the Maguire/O’Shea Academy.
Karen has won the U.S. Eastern Regional Dancing Championship
six times. At the 1987 World Championship in Limerick,
Ireland, Karen, representing the U.S. Eastern Region, placed
eleventh to become the first and only competitor in her age
group from the Eastern Region to ever win a World medal.
In 1989 at the World Championship in Galway, Ireland, Karen
again excelled and placed twelfth in her age group and took
home a second World medal. Karen graduated from Georgetown
University in 1991. Karen recently retired as an Associate at
Morgan Stanley Investment Bank to teach dancing full time.
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Lisa and Karen were the Eastern
Region Oireachtas Co-Chairpeople from 1995 to 1997. They recently
Co-Chaired the 2004 North American Irish Dance Championships held
in Philadelphia, PA. They are both presently on the Executive Board
of the North American Irish Dancing Teachers' Association-Eastern
Region and Lisa is also a Board Member of the North American Irish
Dancing Teachers' Association. In 2005 Lisa was elected Vice President of
An Coimisiun.
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