Irish Dance Teachers Association of North America – Southern Region
ADJUDICATION INVITATION for the 2009 SOUTHERN USA REGIONAL OIREACHTAS IN DALLAS, TEXAS
It is with great pleasure that the IDTANA Southern Region extends this invitation to all eligible ADCRG members worldwide to adjudicate the 2009 Southern Region Oireachtas, which will be held on December 5-6, 2009, in Dallas, Texas.
Adjudicators selected to judge this event must not judge any feiseanna within the Southern Region USA from September 1 through December 5, 2009. The adjudicators must also comply with the current An Coimisiun directive regarding Criteria for Adjudication, attached below, and any future directives issued prior to the Oireachtas. This will be a two-day event with an honorarium of $250/day. Lodging and meal stipends consistent with current US rates will be provided beginning the day before the event through the morning after it finishes. Travel will be covered but must be booked through an agent designated by the IDTANA-Southern Region in a timely manner. Adjudicators interested in putting their names forward for consideration should complete and submit the form on the next page to be sent by mail or e-mail no later than November 30, 2008. The adjudication panel will be voted on by the regional membership at the IDTANA Southern Region annual meeting on December 5, 2008.
We look forward to hearing from you and hope to welcome you to the Southern Region in 2009!
Russell J. Beaton, ADCRG
Leas-Uachtaran, An Coimisiun le Rinci Gaelacha
Irish Dance Teachers Association of North America – Southern Region
ADJUDICATION INVITATION
for the 2009 SOUTHERN USA REGIONAL OIREACHTAS
NAME:_______________________________
EMAIL:_______________________________
ADDRESS:___________________________
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PHONE(s):____________________________
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CITY:________________________________
STATE/PROVINCE:____________________
REGION / ASSOCIATION:________________ COUNTRY:___________________________
I, ____________________________, agree to abide by all the criteria for adjudication at the 2009 Southern Region Oireachtas in Dallas, Texas, and wish to submit my name for selection. If selected, I will not judge any feiseanna held within the Southern USA region from September 1 through December 5, 2009. I agree to fully comply with the current An Coimisiun directive regarding Criteria for Adjudication, and any future directives issued prior to the Oireachtas.
Signed: _________________________ Date: ________________
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Return by MAIL to: Russell J. Beaton, ADCRG , 432 Carrollton Drive,
Frederick, MD 21701, USA
Return by E-MAIL (signed and returned as a pdf file or scanned) to: Scarpia3170@aol.com
*** Please include ALL information requested above. Email MUST be sent
from your email address as listed in the current An Coimisiun Liosta Oifigiuil.
1) The fee payable is US$250 per day. A food subsidy of US$40 per working day will also be paid for dinner. Lunch and breakfast will be provided by the Committee. It is not expected that overtime will be required, but will be paid at the rate of US$25 per hour. This will be paid after the first ten hours of judging each day.
2) Payment will normally be by US check. Requests for cash payments should be made in writing to the Chairman of the Oireachtas prior to October 1, 2009
3) Regardless of payment method, all individuals will be required to sign for receipt of remuneration. The IDTANA-Southern Region will provide the requisite paperwork to be completed.
4) Adjudicators must be available to judge the Oireachtas from the start of the Oireachtas on Friday, December 5, 2009, until your services are no longer required on Sunday. December 6 2009.
5) Adjudicators must be available to attend a pre-Oireachtas meeting on the evening of Friday December 4, and any other meetings as requested by either the Chairman of the Oireachtas.
6) The IDTANA-Southern Region will NOT pay for any personal expenses incurred by the adjudicator (e.g. travel insurance etc.)
7) The IDTANA-Southern Region will assist the adjudicator in making arrangements to extend their stay in Nashville prior to, or after, the Oireachtas, with the understanding that all costs involved are the responsibility of the adjudicator. The IDTANA-Southern Region will NOT pay for any personal living expenses incurred by the adjudicator during the period of engagement such as telephone calls or room service.
8) Should an Adjudicator require a partner to accompany them to the Oireachtas, this must be notified to the Chairman of the Oireachtas prior to 1st October, 2009. The demeanour and conduct of partners must at all times be appropriate to the event. The IDTANA-Southern Region will NOT be responsible for any costs incurred by a spouse or other guest who accompanies the adjudicator, including (but not limited to) hotel expenses, airfare, ground transportation costs, meals, telephone calls, or any other personal expenses.
9) Adjudicators must be present and ready to judge each competition to which they are assigned fifteen minutes before the time scheduled for the competition unless instructed otherwise by a Stage Director or by the Chairperson of the North American Irish Dance Championships.
10) Attire, demeanour, condition and conduct of adjudicators must at all times be appropriate to the event.
11) Adjudicators must not consult or communicate directly with each other on any matter during a competition or even give the impression of doing so – should necessity for contact between adjudicators arise in the course of a competition this will be established via the Stage Steward.
12) Each adjudicator, in accepting the engagement, agrees to comply in full with any instructions that may be issued in advance of or during the Oireachtas as to: -
Ø What is, or is not acceptable, in céilí or figure-dancing competitions and undertake to judge accordingly.
Ø How they should proceed in the event of falls or other mishaps that may occur in team or step-dancing events.
Ø What matters (apart from judging) are the responsibilities of the adjudicators and what are the responsibilities of the stage officials in the running of a competition.
Ø What systems of marking, determination of recalls and finalisation of results must be followed.
13) Each adjudicator must ensure that he or she has a detailed knowledge of each of the céilí dances on the Oireachtas syllabus and refresh that knowledge in advance of the event.
14) It is the responsibility of adjudicators (and not of the stage officials) to ensure that dances performed in a competition are those prescribed in the syllabus. Adjudicators must also ensure that movements of céilí dances are danced in the order in ‘Ár Rincí Foirne’ and otherwise performed in accordance with that book except where instructions issued in advance may otherwise direct.
15) The adjudicators on any competition until the result of that event has been formally announced must not:
Ø discuss their results with, or reveal them to each other;
Ø discuss the competition with, or reveal their own results or, if known to them inadvertently, those of any colleague, to any other person.
A breach of this provision, if proven, will result in the removal of the adjudicator involved.
16) Adjudicators must not discuss in advance any competition or dancers taking part in it with any of their fellow adjudicators.
17) The only papers, books or documents adjudicators may have on their tables will be those provided by the Oireachtas officials.
18) The use of mobile phones is strictly prohibited during the course of any championship that an adjudicator is officiating at. The duration of a championship is deemed to be from the scheduled starting time until all results have been surrendered and adjudicators released by tabulation.
19) Adjudicators, when not judging, may of course associate freely with their fellow adjudicators.
20) The Oireachtas will entail two days of almost continuous work and close concentration by the adjudicators. Therefore, while they are entitled to and deserve an opportunity to relax following a day’s work, adjudicators must not socialise to very late hours so that they may be able to function at their maximum capability the following day.
21) Adjudicators are not permitted to arrange exchanges between themselves in their judging assignments. Any changes made in the allotted schedules will be decided by the authorised Oireachtas officials and then only for good reason.
22) An adjudicator is not eligible to judge at the regional Oireachtas if in any competition the competitors include: a dancer or team whose participation in such competition, by way of relationship and/or association with the said adjudicator, may give rise to an objective conflict of interest on the part of the adjudicator. This would include, but would not be limited to, the following: -
Ø The adjudicator’s son or daughter, niece or nephew or first cousin either as a solo or team dancer;
Ø A dancer or a team taught by the adjudicator’s husband or wife, son or daughter, father or mother, brother or sister, mother-in-law or father-in-law, brother-in-law or sister-in-law, or by a person acting on behalf of any of the relatives listed;
Ø Any dancer (solo or team) who the adjudicator, or a person acting on his or her behalf, has in the previous two years taught or coached (either in person or by video or other means) other than a workshop open to all classes and organised by An Coimisiún or by one of its subsidiary bodies.
Ø Pupils (solo dancers or teams) of a teacher who either himself or herself or a person acting on his or her behalf, has in the previous two years taught or coached (either in person or by video or other means) pupils, either solo dancers or teams, of the adjudicator;
Ø Pupils of a class whose members the adjudicator has in the previous two years assessed (either in person or by video) other than at an official Dancer’s Certificate examination of An Coimisiún.
Ø Any dancer (solo or team) who the adjudicator himself or herself has taught in the previous two years. This is to include all dancers who are no longer being taught by the adjudicator for whatever reason. However, any child who has transferred from the class of the adjudicator, and been subject to the 6 month suspension period is exempt from the above ruling, as in the interest of the child under the laws of natural justice a child is not subject to two separate rules running consecutively.
Ø Any dancer (solo or team) whose teacher has in the previous two years assessed (either in person or by video) pupils of the adjudicator other than at an official Dancer’s Certificate examination of An Coimisiún.
Ø Any pupil of a school where the adjudicator forms part of a partnership, regardless of whether or not the adjudicator has at any time provided tuition to that dancer.
Ø Any pupil of a dance class attended by the adjudicator’s son/daughter while he/she is attending that class or for two years after the son/daughter has left the said class.
23) In the case of Rule 5.2.9 (see Rule Book) the opposite also applies i.e. An adjudicator who teaches the children of another registered teacher/adjudicator will not be permitted to adjudicate the dancers of that adjudicator.
24) Please also take note – Any person, whether registered with An Coimisiún or not, who gives a workshop in any form to a class should be regarded as being associated with that class and any dancing school in which they have an involvement, whether directly or indirectly. All classes associated with such a person should be regarded as being connected by association.
25) The onus is on a person invited to judge the Oireachtas to ascertain as far as possible if any dancers who might affect his or her eligibility to adjudicate the event are likely to be taking part in the Oireachtas and not to submit his/her name for consideration in the case of such a conflict.
27) As all adjudicators engaged for the Oireachtas must be free to judge all events on the syllabus, an adjudicator cannot request to be left off a competition so that a dancer whom that adjudicator is not eligible to judge because of any of the provisions of point number 22 may take part in that competition. Such requests, if made, will not be entertained.
28) Where deemed necessary a meeting of authorised officials will have authority to remove any adjudicator from a competition.
29)An emergency meeting of the Oireachtas and regional officers will have authority to remove an adjudicator from judging further events at the Oireachtas.
31) An adjudicator who agrees to judge at the Oireachtas must, at the time of receiving the written offer, declare his/her agreed engagements to judge and must also not judge any feiseanna held in the southern region beginning from September 1 until after the event, even if invitations to do so have been accepted.
33) An adjudicator must not have adjudicated at the Southern Region Oireachtas in 2007 or 2008 to be eligible to adjudicate at the event.
Having carefully read all of the above conditions, I hereby wish to submit my name for consideration to judge at the Southern USA Region Quaifying Oireachtas 2009 in Dallas, Texas.
Signed____________________________________________________________
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