Roberts Feis to be held April 29th

March 22nd, 2012   Filed under: Competitions, Roberts Feis Add Comment

The Roberts Academy are excited to announce that we are hosting a second feis in 2012 (in addition to the Southern Stars Championship). This will be held on April 29th at Thomas More College. Our adjudicator is Mary Grantham, ADCRG who is joining us from Melbourne.

This is being run mainly to give those dancers in the grades an extra opportunity to get up on stage and maybe get another first to grade their dances to the next level. Every effort is being made to keep the cost of the feis down for parents as we know how expensive Irish dancing can be!

Solo Sections: $4
Trophy Sections: $5
Hall Levy: $8 per family

The venue is the same one used for last years Southern Stars Championship, giving us plenty of room in the main hall, and an upstairs practice area for dancers to warm up. The raised wooden stage will be laid with AIDA flooring for dancer’s safety and comfort.

As usual, the parents of the Roberts Academy will be running a Canteen over the course of the day to keep hungry parents & dancers happy!

We hope to see you there for a fun feis!

Download: 2012 Roberts Feis Syllabus

RAID Invade the Gold Coast!

March 22nd, 2012   Filed under: Competitions Add Comment
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Earlier this month, a group of 9 dancers between the ages of 7 and 15 made the trip from Darwin to invade Queensland for their first comp of the year – the AIDA QLD March Feis. The dancers were accompanied by a “rent-a-crowd” of their family and friends who travelled all the way just to support and cheer on the competitors.

The dancers flew to Brisbane together on Friday night then made their way to the Gold Coast in various taxis and trains, with much fun on the way! Everyone even stayed at the same apartments, making for a great team environment.

The feis proved very successful, with the dancers taking home a haul of seven trophies and seventeen medals between them. Several dancers even placed first in their sections, qualifying them to move up to the next grade.

The dancers all had a blast at the feis, dancing their best and smiling all the way. 14 year old Shannon said the best part of the weekend was seeing all the dancers getting up on stage and having the time of their lives.

It wasn’t all just about the competition though. After a tiring two days of competitions, the group made sure to finish the weekend together with a fun team dinner on Sunday night – the perfect way to unwind and relax before the long trip home from a weekend of feising!

St Patrick’s Day Shennanigans!

March 20th, 2012   Filed under: Displays & Shows Add Comment

As usual, the Roberts Academy had a busy St Patrick’s Day weekend, taking part in Adelaide’s St Patrick’s Day parade as well as several dancing displays around the city at the Irish Club as well as Aged Care homes.

Our dancers were up bright and early on Saturday morning to meet in the city for the parade. We were honoured to be following Adelaide’s Rose of Tralee hopefuls. The parade winds along Gouger Street & King William Rd, stopping traffic along the way. Our dancers looked great in costume and entertained the crowd along the way with their dancing. Our first display for Saturday took place in a packed out Irish Club, with the audience having to squish back to make room for us! All our dancers were met with great applause.

It wasn’t all hard work though, as we found time in between to chill out with friends! All in all another fun and productive St Patrick’s Day for the Roberts Academy.

RAID dancers as Flag Bearers at Gaelic Football

March 12th, 2012   Filed under: Displays & Shows, RAIDing around Add Comment

Several of our young dancers had the honor of attending St Mary’s oval on Sunday to act as flag bearers for the Gaelic Football finals.

The dancers lead the teams onto the oval pre-match, carrying the Irish tri-color for the Irish and Australian National Anthems.

Connor and Lauren are shown with the Women’s teams for the afternoon match, while Aishlinn & Bernie were in attendance for the earlier men’s match.

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New site launched

March 5th, 2012   Filed under: Website Updates Add Comment

After several weeks of work, we have now migrated the entire RAID website over to the new servers & updating system. It may look pretty much the same as it was before, but the work we’ve done is going to make it much easier to keep the site up to date!

Keep an eye on the blog for the latest RAID News and info. And to all our RAID dancers and families – don’t forget to log in and check the Members Only Area regularly, as that is where we keep you up to date with key school info such as feis entry details, upcoming displays, class cancellations and other important news.

RAIDing the Remarkable Rocks

January 20th, 2012   Filed under: RAIDing around Add Comment

Ever wondered what your teacher & classmates get up to on their Christmas holidays? Take three Irish dancers to one of Australia’s natural wonders, and of course, they will dance on it. This fun video was shot on location at the Remarkable Rocks, Flinder’s Chase National Park, Kangaroo Island.

And guess what – we even got featured on the website for the Irish Independent – Ireland’s largest selling daily newspaper!

End of Year show was a success – and that’s it for 2011!

December 18th, 2011   Filed under: Displays & Shows Add Comment

Yet again our End of Year Show was a great success, with all our dancers taking to the stage for one last time in 2011. Thankyou to everyone who took part, from the youngest beginner through to our most experienced championship dancers, it was great to see everyone helping each other out and having fun up on stage.

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End of Year Concert preparations are in full swing..

December 2nd, 2011   Filed under: Displays & Shows Add Comment

Our students are currently hard at work learning and practicing their dances for our annual End of Year Concert. Every year we run the show to give our dancers the opportunity to show off their skills to family & friends on a non-competitive stage. The numbers range from the basic Beginner Reel from our youngest dancers, right through to rhythmical show-style troupe numbers from our Open students. Read More

New RAID News Blog launched

December 1st, 2011   Filed under: Website Updates Add Comment

After much coding, testing, and one or two ridiculously late nights, we have finally launched a brand new feature for the site – our new News Blog! And this is it! The Blog will allow us to add quick and easy updates to the site whenever we have something exciting to tell you.. so make sure you bookmark it. We are planning some more updates and changes to the site over the holiday season so stay tuned.