02/15/2025
We are so excited to share with you our final Adjudicator post!!
✨🎉Officially 2 more weeks till the feis🎉✨
Thank you to all who have registered!! If you happen to be interested, late registration with a fee is available for those of you who forgot to register by February 14th!
Read below to get to know ADCRG, Kristin Butke Zargorski:
Kristin Butke was born in
Akron, Ohio, and began Irish dancing when she was 4 years old. She trained under two- time world champion Tim O’Hare. While competing, Kristin achieved seven Midwest Regional titles, ranging from Under 8 to Over 21 and was the 2001 North American Senior Ladies Champion. Kristin placed 4th at the World Championships in 1993 and 1994, and took the bronze medal in 1997. After taking off five years to dance professionally, Kristin returned to the competitive scene in 2002, at the age of 25, to capture the bronze medal again at the World Championships and the silver medal at the All-Ireland Championships. Kristin’s professional experience begin in 1997 when she toured with the Lord of the Dance as a chorus member, then as the principle dancer in the role of Morrighan in Las Vegas and danced opposite Michael Flately in the role of Cleopatra in Feet of Flames.
In August 2003, she performed as Grainne in the Celtic rock musical Celtic Fusion with
former Riverdance star Liam Harney. Kristin has also performed with the Chieftains, the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, the Seattle Symphony Orchestra, the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra and the Memphis Symphony Orchestra. She has also toured and performed with the world-renowned all-female band Cherish the Ladies.
In 2002, after obtaining her TCRG certification, Kristin moved to Nashville, Tenn., and began teaching Irish dance to the Willis Family. Kristin coached four willis children to 9 regional titles in just 3 years. Jair Willis was her first student to win a
World Championship medal in 2004. Kristin has trained four teachers who successfully passed
the TCRG exam. In January 2007, Kristin passed her ADCRG (certified judge).
