Irish dancers have no upper body movements when dancing Irish dance, their hands naturally droop and stick to their hips, and their feet in the lower body always keep a cross posture (45 degrees). Irish tap dancing is different from soft shoes and hard shoes. In soft-shoe dance, boys and girls dance differently, because the shoes of soft-shoe dancers are different. Girls are a bit like ballet shoes, and they don't make a sound, while boys' heels are hard and can make a sound.
Irish tap dance, as a traditional Irish folk art, really gained recognition and attention from the performance of riverdance. Those dancers who love this art have integrated more advanced tap dancing concepts into their national traditions, thus completing the sublimation of Irish tap dancing. In the Irish dance drama you see now, we can see that the dancer's upper body will move a little, which is improved by the dancer. In traditional Irish dance, only the lower body moves. Mike Frey, the king of Irish tap dancing, is the most famous Irish dancer. Riverdance, Dance of Kings, Dance of Flames and Tiger of Celtic are all famous Irish tap dance dramas, which are extremely wonderful!