How to Do the Treble Shuffle in Irish Step Dancing

Video Transcript

"My name is Niall O'Leary from the Niall O'Leary School of Irish Dance in New York City and today I'm demonstrating intermediate Irish step dance. This is intermediate Irish step dance and now we're wearing the hard shoes. If you've done any kind of tap dancing you may be familiar with this type of move. In tap dancing it's called a shuffle, in Irish dancing there's a number of different names for it, it can be called treble or batter or valley or even 123. So what am I doing exactly? I'm striking the floor twice and I'm getting a little bit of ankle in there as well. The important thing is that I end with my foot in the air ready to do something else. So it's....like this, it's two sounds and as you can see it's not just tapping my foot, I'm actually striking the foot. So the faster you strike the floor, the louder the sound."