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

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

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.