Dancers have waited ’many, many years’ for new studio and it’s finally here

‘We’ve waited many, many years for this’

Dancers have waited ’many, many years’ for new studio and it’s finally here

A cloud of tulle and the whisper of pink satin slippers dispelled the gloom of a January afternoon yesterday as a flock of tutu-clad ballerinas pirouetted into Skibbereen’s spectacular new Arts Centre.

Some of them as young as two years of age, the 100 or so dancers — all members of the Alan Foley Academy of Dance — were thrilled by their first sight of the state-of-the-art dance studio that awaited them in the five-storey, €3.6m Uillinn-West Cork Arts Centre building.

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