Recent News

April 22-29 is Canada’s National Dance Week! This year, Rising Tide took part by sharing why we dance. Enjoy our compilation video below. For more on National Dance week, browse through [...]

Local Irish dancer, Erin Welsh, will represent Nova Scotia at the prestigious World Irish Dance Championships in Scotland later this month. “I can’t believe I’m on my way to worlds in less than a [...]

Registration is now open for the 2016 Winter term. This term begins Rising Tide’s second year of operations and we could not be more grateful to our customers, supporters and friends who [...]

World champion Irish dancer Emily Penner In just a few days, Rising Tide’s competitive dancers will have the opportunity to learn from one of the best, literally. World Champion Irish dancer [...]

We’re pleased to share that our fall registration is now open. This fall we’ll be continuing all of our children’s and competitive programming and starting two new adults [...]

Summer is officially here, which means sun, fun and the North American Irish Dance Championships! The North American Irish Dance Championships (NAIDC) are the premiere Irish dance competition on [...]

We are very excited to celebrate with our friends and family all of the dancing accomplishments achieved at Rising Tide Irish Dance Academy this year. Please join us on June 19 at the Canada [...]

April 22-29, 2015 is National Dance Week in Canada. We LOVE Irish dancing at Rising Tide so we made a little video to celebrate. Enjoy.

Irish dancing requires great physical skill and mental concentration, but it also requires artistic performance – something many Irish dancers struggle with. As Irish dancers we train our [...]

Former six-time world champion Irish dancer Lauren Early has just released her first podcast. For anyone dancing at a competitive level, we highly recommend listening. Lauren answers questions [...]