The Bay Agenda: Keepers of the Steps Preserving Bay Area Irish Culture

"Keepers of the Steps, the living archive and cultural program at the United Irish Cultural Center dedicated to preserving generations of Bay Area Irish dancers, teachers, and families. Through stories, images, and lived experience, we'll reflect on how dance carries lineage, identity, and community forward."

"Bringing together perspectives from cultural stewardship, theatrical living history, and multidisciplinary dance-making, the program explores how Irish and Celtic performance traditions continue to evolve on modern stages. Together, we'll consider preservation and innovation, place-making and performance, and what it means to keep tradition embodied, adaptive, and alive."

KALW and the United Irish Cultural Center present a program celebrating Irish step dancing as living history and cultural memory. Keepers of the Steps is a living archive and cultural program dedicated to preserving the Bay Area's Irish step dancing legacy across generations of dancers, teachers, and families. The program explores how dance carries lineage, identity, and community forward through stories, images, and lived experience. Perspectives from cultural stewardship, theatrical living history, and multidisciplinary dance-making examine how Irish and Celtic performance traditions continue evolving on modern stages. The discussion considers preservation and innovation, place-making and performance, and what it means to keep tradition embodied, adaptive, and alive.

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