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Courses and Master Classes

The Irish National Youth Dance Company( NYD): classes for 16 weekends (one night residential) from January to June towards a performance in Backstage theatre . . . click here

Shawbrook Summer School : Week long residential dance courses providing classes in Ballet, Jazz, Contemporary, Choreography, Theatre craft with a performance in Shawbrook theatre at the end of the week. From age 10 up in July.

Course E: Week-long residential course for full time dance students and professional dance artists, exploring choreography and including a composer workshop.

From 29th July 2007 to 4th Aug - final performance at Backstage Theatre, 4th Aug, 8.30pm (Booking . . .)

Full-time students accepted 2007: L O'Donoghue, L Boyes, D O'Meara, A McAtemney, L Hynes, S Dufresne, J Griffith.
Facilitator: Cathy Sharp, assisted by dancers from Cathy Sharp Dance Ensemble.

Past Course E choreographers include:

Sonia Rafferty

Master Classes: During St Patrick's weekend and the first weekend after Easter dance master-classes are given by international dance teachers/mentors to 15 students of vocational and professional standard in ballet/jazz/contemporary dance .

Previous Master-class mentors:

Sharon Donaldson( Phoenix)

Dollie Henry

Eric Carpenter ( Nprthen Ballet)

Nail Macmahon

Paul Bayes Kitcher( Birmingham Ballet)

Lorena Randi( Michael Clarke)

Ann Martin ( Conservatoire, Lyon)

Sarah Reynolds ( NDT1)

Sara Lourenzo ( The Hague)

Jean Nuckey ( RAD vocational examiner)

Fiona Chadwick( Royal Ballet)

Wendy Greene RAD vocational Examiner)