How to Do the Cut Move: 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 combination is called treble cut, treble hop back. Here we're just using a move called a cut where you swing your heel up to your hip like this. This is not the best thing to do when you jump out of bed in the morning, you should stretch first. This is a good stretch. If you're trying it slowly, you could only get your foot up to here, but if you do it quickly you could get it that much higher. So the actual combination is treble cut, treble hop back. So you can see this time from the treble I'm not bringing it back here I'm bringing it up here and then the second time I'm bringing it. So it's treble cut, treble hop back. Treble cut, treble hop back."