Adult Irish Dance Classes
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Six spacious dance studios in four locations including Greenwood, Wedgwood, Magnolia, and Shoreline.
About Our Adult Irish Dancing Classes
Irish dancing is fun, energetic, and highly aerobic. We’ll get you started in this wonderful Irish tradition that mesmerized the world through the River Dance performances. Beginning level students will learn the basic jig and reel steps and put them together into simple solo and ceili (group) dances. Intermediate level students will include more complicated patterning and preparations for hard shoe.
Non-Competitive Irish Dance Lessons for Adults
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Adult Irish Dance Class Schedule
Summer 2022 Class Schedule
June 27, 2022 - September 1, 2022
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Winter/Spring 2022 Class Schedule
February 7, 2022 - June 16, 2022
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Meet Your Irish Dance Teacher
Becky Leary
Becky started her Irish dancing career with the American Dance Institute as a young child in the late 90's after watching the highly acclaimed Riverdance performance over and over and over again on VHS.
Decked out in her Irish dance outfit.
Her fondness for Irish Step only grew from there and she remained an ADI student through high school.
In her down time Becky enjoys crocheting, playing board games, watching her husband barbeque, and reluctantly rooting on the Mariners. She works for a local non-profit that provides camps and programs for families impacted by childhood cancer.
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American Dance Institute also offers Teen Irish dance, Children's Irish dance classes for ages 8-12, and Kid's Irish dance classes for ages 5-7.
Six Seattle Area Dance Studios In Four Convenient Locations
Greenwood, Wedgwood, Magnolia & Shoreline
Greenwood: 8001 Greenwood Ave North, Seattle, WA 98103
Magnolia: 2410 32nd Ave West, Seattle WA 98199
Wedgwood: NE 7500 25th NE, Suite 1, Seattle, WA 98115
Shoreline: 1240 NE 175th Street, Shoreline, WA 98155, Phone 206-402-6561
Our Online Class Technology.
The Quality Online Class Room Experience - At Home
Dennis Landmesser
Testimonial
We asked Dennis Landmesser, how he liked his live streamed online dance class today with instructor Dakota Crist.
The dance class today with Dakota was more than I could have hoped to expect. I don't know what to rave about more, the quality of the production or the excellence to the class.
Her instructions were clear and complete and made perfect sense. The corrections were thoughtful and meaningful. Dakota is golden and to be highly valued.
Dennis Landmesser
What do adult students say about this school?
Testimonials
Adult ballet dance class students Ryan, Mat, and Jenay from the American Dance Institute share a few things they enjoy about their new dance classes, dance teachers, fellow students, and the school.

A pair of Ghillies, a special shoe for Irish and Scottish dancing. It laces along the instep and has no tongue, especially those used for Scottish country dancing.
Why Do We Dance?
A Survey Of New Beginner & Returning Dancers
We surveyed 150 discerning Seattle & Shoreline area dancers why they take dance classes. Here are their most insightful responses and you can watch them in the video too.
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