The Celtic Spirit Feis was held on May 4th, 2014 at the Wisconsin Center in Milwaukee, WI.
Editor’s Note:
Back to back feiseanna were held at the Wisconsin Center this weekend so the summaries and scores for Venue, Food and Vendors here are the same for the Saturday feis. Scores are below. Full descriptions can be found here.
This review is for the PC/OC portion of the feis. If you have comments for the Grades portion of the feis, please contact me and I can share them in a separate post, thanks!
Venue Score: 7 | Food Score: 7 | Vendor Score: 9
Judges
I actually had an issue with the judges for day 2, or more specifically, one judge. This particular judge during the time I watched, seemed to focus on a particular dancer if they noticed something they did not like about the other dancer. It came across as a snap decision, ‘nope don’t like that dancer, not going to look for anything good about them.’ Just gave me a bad impression and therefore did not like the judging on Sunday as much as the judging the previous day. This was on Stage 1.
Judge Score: 7
Music
Actually, the setup of the musicians and the issues I encountered with that setup on Saturday, remained on Sunday, so the score is the same.
Musician Score: 7
Results
Awards were in the same large area as the day before so there was plenty of room, but the time from the end of the comp to the announcing of results was a little slower on Sunday at just over 2 hours.
Results Score: 8
Feis Flow
I can sum up the flow like this, by 1p.m. it looked like over 95% of the comps had finished, and there was dancing on very few stages. That feis moved along. Great job!
Feis Flow: 10
Scoring
Two part scoring with a Feis Score consisting of Judging, Music, Results and Flow, and then the overall consisting of everything.
Feis Score: 8 – Not quite as good as the day before due to poorer Judge and Results scores. A better Flow score helped.
And the WTF Rating is 7.86… not terrible, and definitely worth another chance..
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