St. Pat's Senior Troupe

Senior troupe, St. Patrick's Day 2013
Photo by Alex

Vic and Pat - Senior sound team
Photo by Alex

Sound team at Dr. Peter Centre
Photo by Hanna

Kali, Jessica, Alex and Natalie
Waiting for the Canada Line, heading downtown to the Blarney Stone
Photo by Hanna

Five of our senior and retired dancers joined forces last weekend to make up the St. Pat's senior troupe. It was a treat for the "Senior" sound team, Pat (dad of Kali) and Vic (dad of Hanna), to accompany the "Senior" dance troupe! Collectively these 5 dancers are students at UBC (Hanna, Jessica and Natalie), BCIT (Alex) and Kwantlen (Kali). Thank you ladies!

A note from Hanna, team captain:

It was wonderful to get the chance to combine some current and former senior NPIDA dancers for St. Pat's Day shows again this year! Hats off especially to Allie (Alex), who danced all 7 shows in 24 hours with us despite having her wisdom teeth out only a couple of days before and feeling extremely ill. Also, special thanks to Natalie and Kali for temporarily coming out of retirement again to do shows this year, and to Jessica for driving our team all day! And of course, thanks to Vic and Pat, who we were lucky enough to have with us at all of our shows this year!

Jessica, Natalie, Alex, Kali and Hanna
St. Pat's 2013
Photo by Moira

Still More St. Pat's Photos!

Catalina and Caitlin
Getting ready for the Global TV performance

Catalina, Laurel and Camryn
Getting ready for the Global TV performance

Catalina and Camryn at Global TV

Catalina with guest dancers Emily L and Olivia C

Rhiannon and Olivia
Team Cairdeas Co-captains

Amalie, Thea, Olivia, Veronica, Sarah and Alannah
at The Raven Pub in Deep Cove

Thea and Olivia at The Raven

Rhiannon and Sarah
Tired after a long day of dancing!

Thank you to Catalina (photos #1-4) and Rhiannon (photos #5-8) for submitting these St. Pat's  photos! (These are not their Photo Contest entries, which have been submitted separately).

Below is a photo taken by Jennifer of the Shamrock Shakers troupe and a very nice note addressed to this troupe from Cara F, mom of Reese, who was a guest dancer for the first time during St. Pat's weekend:

The Shamrock Shakers troupe
Back (in red): Alison, Anna, Maria, Gemma, Raven, Emma and Rachel
Front (in black): Robyn, Lindsay, Claire and Reese

I just wanted to thank you all for making Reese and I feel so welcome this weekend.  Reese had such a great time and really felt a part of her team.  It didn't matter that she was wearing the black outfit, or that she had never performed with Eire Born before.  She probably had more fun than she’d ever had dancing before.  The team leaders were all great and even took extra time with Reese so that she could learn and dance in Hey Julie with them.

I hope it won’t be too long before Reese can dance with Eire Born in earnest but in the meantime I just wanted you all to know that we both had a blast this weekend!

Thanks again,
Reese and Cara

More St. Pat's Troupe Photos

The Crew troupe
Emma, Laurel and Camryn at Hollyburn Sailing Club
Photo by Nicole

Young "Crew" dancers Katelyn and Samantha
At The Cellar in Vancouver
Photo by Nicole

Emma, Camryn, Laurel, Jayne and Mackenzie
On the Celtic Fest stage
Photo by Nicole

More young Crew members
Holly and Ciara at the Raven Pub
Photo by Nicole

Mackenzie, Emma, Jayne, Camryn and Laurel
At the Raven Pub in Deep Cove
Photo by Nicole

Jayne with hair flying; Thea; Olivia
At a joint show with The Crew and Team Cairdeas
Red Lion, West Vancouver
Photos by Nicole

The Crew and Team Cairdeas
At Amica Seniors facility in West Vancouver
Photo by Nicole

Team Cairdeas dancers Sarah, Megan, Adreanna and Olivia
Photos by Mark

Team Clovers in Richmond
Photo by Connie

Sydney - Team Clover dancer
Photo by Connie

Support team: Rosalie, Jennifer, Emma, Jodi and Catherine
Photo by Connie

Shamrock Shakers troupe
Photo by Jennifer

Emma, Gemma and Raven at Sunrise Senior Living facility
Photo by Jennifer

Team lunch for the Shamrocks troupe;
provided by Sheryl and Cara
Photo by Jennifer

Shamrock troupe
Anna, Alison, Emma, Gemma, Cara and Sophie
with guests Pixie, Leila and Malia
Photo by Jennifer

Shamrock dancers with green hair bows made by Emma
Photo by Jennifer

Senior troupe 2-Hand: Jessica and Hanna
Amica Arbutus Seniors facility, Vancouver
Photo by Moira

Kali (foreground) and Jessica (far right): Senior troupe in action
At Mahony's UBC
Photo by Moira

Tradition Meets Technology!
Senior dancers Jessica, Natalie, Hanna and Alex
The end of a long day, after the final 10:00PM Buck show

Many thanks to those parents who have submitted photos from the various St. Pat's shows this past weekend!

St. Pat's Troupe Photos

Cairdeas Troupe
Back: Rhiannon, Thea and Olivia
Middle: Alannah, Sarah, Adreanna and Amelie
Front: Veronica and Megan
Photo by Gillian

Rhiannon, Olivia, Thea, Alannah, Megan and Sarah
Photo by Mark

Cairdeas Troupe
Photo by Mark

Olivia and Rhiannon
Photo by Mark

Team Fetch
Kyra, Josie, Emma, Kyla and Avery
Photo by Kim

Mini-Fetchers Avery and Olivia at the Buck
Photo by Kim

Team Clovers
Photo by Connie

Olivia, Jessie and Morgan
Photo by Connie

Team Clovers with Courtney
Photo by Connie

Jennifer - Sound Team member
Photo by Connie

Shamrock Shakers Troupe
Back: Allsion, Anna, Maria, Gemma, Raven Emma and Rachel
Front: (In black): Robyn, Lindsay, Claire and Reese
Photo by Jennifer

Anna, Emma, Gemma, Maria, Raven and Rachel
Photo by Jennifer

Shamrock Shakers at the Raven Pub
With members of the North Shore Celtic Ensemble
Back: Allison, Cara, Sophie, Maria and Gemma
Middle: Reese, Emma, Anna and Claire
Front: NSCE members Gabe, Erik and Jesse
Photo by Jennifer

Shamrock Shakers
Green hair bows made by Emma H for her troupe!
Photo by Jennifer

Anna and guest dancer Robyn
Photo by Jennifer

Senior Troupe
Hanna, Kali, Alex, Natalie, Jessica and guest Catalina
At the 10:00PM Buck & Ear show
Photo by Moira

Seniors getting airborne at Arbutus Amica Seniors Home
Photo by Moira

Senior troupe at the Buck & Ear
10:00PM March 17 - final show of the night!
Hanna, Jessica, Natalie, Kali, Alex and Catalina
Photo by Moira

Senior Sound Guys Pat and Vic
Photo by Moira

A BIG THANK YOU to all of our dancers, team captains, guest dancers, sound teams, Nora and Courtney, and parents who participated in St. Pat's shows this weekend!

Many thanks to those parents who took time to submit photos yesterday - greatly appreciated! I'll post more over the next few days, and please do continue to submit your St. Pat's troupe photos. We need some from "The Crew" troupe particularly!

Dancers: the deadline to submit your photos to the 3rd annual St. Pat's Photo Contest is Saturday March 23. Remember: submit a maximum of 5. You could win a $25 gift card and have one of your photos included in the 2013 Ceili slide show in May!

Parents and dancers: Please submit all St. Pat's photos to pickettlineblogAThotmail.com
Don't forget to include the names of the dancers in your photos; especially younger/newer and guest dancers. Thank you!