"Dancing is the only rational amusement wherein the man of business can wholly forget the manifold cares of an active business life. The social repast, when combined with delightful music, is a panacea for the innumerable ills resulting from a continuous strain on the heated and overtaxed brain.

Those who are constantly in the whirl of business excitement - it might be said the treadmill of fortune - when overburdened with cares, soul and body, take this prescription.

DANCE ONE OR TWO EVENINGS A WEEK, and the whole dancing profession will stake their reputation on the assertion that renewed strength, vitality and energy will be thereby generated in the whole system."

Professor A. C. Wirth, from the preface to Complete Quadrille Call Book and Dancing Master, 1902

This web site is dedicated to Irish social dancing, known as ceili and set dancing.  We have lots of good information so please take a few minutes to look around.

Interested in the health benefits of dancing? You'd be amazed at what good exercise it is. Check out these sites:

http://www.sixwise.com/newsletters/05/11/02/the_health_benefits_of_dancing_--_including_specific_benefits_of_different_dances.htm

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/434704/health_benefits_from_dance.html

http://www.learntodance.com/health%20benefits%20of%20dance.htm