on behalf of expert village my name is niallo'leary from the niall o'leary school of irish dance in new york city and today i'm demonstratingbeginner soft shoe irish dance. i'm now going to show you a combination called hop 1,2,3.we are going to do a hop and 3 steps. so the first hop your going to take your foot offthe floor and land your front foot with your knee above your knee. hop and then you aregoing to do 3 steps. so it's hop, front, back,

where to see irish dancing in dublin, front like that let's do that again. so youturn out, crossing your feet, up on your toes and you go hop 1, 2, and 3 and every otherhop your going to lift your back foot like this. hop 1,2,3 and then go back again withthe right foot back in front, hop 1, 2,3, reverse, hop 1,2,3 and you could go all theway home doing hop 1,2,3s.