Look at you go, goal crusher!
You work your butt off every day in the studio. You go home, you do your homework, you practice some more. You tap your feet under your desk all day at school. You skip the sleepover with your friends. You spend hours, days, weeks, even years focusing on your health and your goals for three minutes on the stage. You miss by a point. You pick yourself up, you work even harder, and you try again.
You realize through it all – the heartbreak and the triumphs – that there’s more to it than the trophies on the shelf. At the end of the day what truly makes you love this sport, is everything you hate about it too. Your friends at school don’t understand what it’s like to wear a wig for 13 hours. Your blisters aren’t “gross feet”, they’re a badge of honor.
And you never come home with nothing from a competition. At the very least, you come home with memories with your teammates. So in 20 years when your children ask, or in 10 years when your hips are too sore to do a click, or even at school on Monday, how will you remember what it TRULY means to be an Irish dancer?
Let’s document this season of your dance career to show what it’s really like before you take the stage.
I have one photo I genuinely cherish from my 20+ years of competing. The reason is obvious. What this image doesn’t show? Everything that went in to winning that globe. It doesn’t tell the story of waiting until 10pm for awards to start with the butterflies still going strong. It doesn’t show the size of my ankle from spraining it three days before in my solo round. It doesn’t show the tears, the state championship I missed my high school win while I was at the studio, or the amount of times we had to do that stupid lead around on a Sunday morning.
My biggest regret of my entire dance career is not having pictures to look back on that reignite the emotions of training. Anyone can pose with a trophy, but it’s the journey behind the scenes that makes your dance career, yours.
The Slowey Photography Irish Dance Experience – Documenting This Season Of Your Dance Career
Irish dance sessions with Mary are individually designed sessions meant to capture what it’s really like to be an Irish dancer. Beyond the trophies and expensive dresses. We capture the strength and perseverance you’ve put in to your dance career. Plus we’ll capture that gorgeous dress before it goes out of style, too. Once you choose to work with Slowey Photography, you’re sent a Welcome Guide that will jump start the planning process. You’ll also fill out a questionnaire, where Mary will get to know your goals, favorite parts of the sport, and accomplishments you’re most proud of. Based on your answers, we’ll work together to design a session experience that will give you images that truly encapsulate your unique relationship with the sport you love so much.
Your Investment
The session fee for The Slowey Photography Irish Dance Experience is $200. This includes the hands on help designing your session including styling, location suggestions, and approximately 2 hours for the shoot where we will photograph both in training clothes and full costume.
Prints and products are sold separately, and you will choose exactly what fits your needs at your viewing session – whether it is a beautiful canvas for the walls of your practice space or a keepsake box full of prints to reminisce for a lifetime. Orders are on average $800.
Ready to capture the memories? Book now! Or Contact Mary with questions.
More About Mary…
Hey! I’m Mary – the girl behind Slowey Photography. If you’re trying to find me in a crowd, I’m the one with the camera wearing something leopard print. There’s very likely crystals in my fanny pack, over 300mg of caffeine in my bloodstream, and an extra jacket tied around my waist for when I inevitably start complaining about being cold.
Now it’s your turn! Contact Mary to introduce yourself and learn more about The Slowey Photography Experience. Then, head to my Instagram below and slide in to my DMs to say hey!
