Dancing Became Poetry Comments

It's called the "Feis, ' a Gaelic word pronounced "fesh." It's a dance contest held annually in different cities in the United States. It's the "Super Bowl" for young Irish step-dancers. When I competed in the Feis back in the Fifties, there were dancers there from the United States, Canada, Australia, Ireland and other countries. They took planes, trains and buses to get there to compete, usually in a stadium or some other large venue.

The best Irish fiddlers provided the music. The judges were old men, retired dancers themselves, serious as clerics, sitting in trios at scoring tables in front of the platforms where the contestants competed.
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