Making a scene: Panto chorus members describe their work

From luxury cruise ships to teaching dance classes and pantomimes, it's all part of keeping shipshape for a busy showbiz career

Dancer Leah Hilton and Callum O’Brien are performing in Red Riding Hood pantomime at the Everyman this winter.

Being at sea on a luxury cruise ship may sound glamorous, but for dancer Leah Hilton, it’s far from glitzy. Hilton (28), one of the ensemble dancers in the Red Riding Hood pantomime at the Everyman, says working on cruises is hard work with basic living conditions that see two dancers sharing a small cabin, usually without windows.

But this English dancer, who moved to Cork over a year ago to be with her partner, Dayl Cronin (of the Dayl Cronin Dance Academy), also adds that her cruising experience was good fun and an opportunity to see places she normally wouldn’t have visited.