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- 2 August 2008 (Creation)
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28 pp.
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Chrysalis Dance is Ireland’s only neoclassical dance company, combining in its choreographies sophisticated classical ballet with sleekly modern elements of contemporary dance. The company emerged from a workshop held in June 2003 under the direction of Judith Sibley at Shawbrook School of Dance, County Longford to commence the research and development of an original neoclassical work. The company premiered its first work, Strings, in the Black Box, Galway in April 2004. Since then, Chrysalis Dance has toured Ireland with several well-received choreographies and has enjoyed sell-out runs at national dance festivals. The company has been resting since losing its Arts Council funding in 2013.
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Programme of the Flights of Fancy Festival, which comprised eleven performing arts events in eleven villages in county Leitrim between April and August 2008. One of the events was the performance of Soul/S by Chrysalis Dance at Cloone Community Centre on 2 August. The programme gives potted histories of the eleven villages in which performances were held, and background notes to the eleven events and their performers.
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- Béarla