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Articles about Shawbrook and Reviews of past shows
BALLET IN A BARN By Laura PetersIt started with a dance school in a grain barn for local and regional students. Now Shawbrook is also a hideaway and retreat centre for dancers from around the world . . . Read More European DANCE news.com September 2004
Backstage Theatre & Longford Festival of Dance, Irish Times, March 2005 by Belinda McKeon, 'Anica Louw, director of the Shawbrook, remembers the excitement of the Backstage group at the possibility of what they called a "real theatre . . .' Read More
Shawbrook Irish Times Reviews by Carolyn Swift Summer Show 2000 Summer Show 1999 Summer Show 1998 Summer Show 1996
INYD, Irish National Youth Dance, a lecture by Anica Louw. The only way I can feel personally successful as a dance educator, is if I can see a real link between dance education and professional dance . . . Read More
PAS DE DEUX BESIDE THE COWSHED Irish Times, 31^st August 1989 Definitely not the Bolshoi. Kathy Sheridan visits the Shawbrook School of Ballet, in Co Westmeath, the only residential summer school in the country and certainly the only one on a dairy farm . . . Read More
FROM SOUTH AFRICA TO LEGAN AND MULLINGAR Westmeath Examiner, 3 Sept 1994 The Berlin Deutsche Opera’s solo dancer and choreographer Marguerite Donlan, from Longford, received her initial ballet training from South African, Anica Louw, who runs a ballet school at Legan, in Co Longford. . . . Read More
Pigs Make way for farmyard ballet School. Irish Independent, Monday, July 29, 1996. By Willie Dillon Anica and Philip Dawson run a thriving ballet school - from a converted pig shed. Dance pupils – some from as far away as the US and Japan – learn their steps in a real working Irish farmyard . . . Read More
Article about Shawbrook's 1999 Africa Show, by Sean McConnell, Irish Times. Out of Africa and in to Ballymahon Longford students' show tells the personal story of a journey from South Africa to Longford . . .' Read More
Summer Ballet School closes with a flourish. By Geraldine Grennan Longford Leader, 25th August 1989 The Shawbrook School of Ballet in Legan brought their highly-popular Summer School to a close for another year . . . Read More
Shawbrook in the Eighties, by Diana Theodores 'It did not seem strange to receive a call from a woman with an Afrikaans accent from County Longford asking if I would come to a ballet recital on her dairy farm in Lenamore . . .' Read More
Before the showers and modern dorm were built Shawbrook students washed in the Inny River. This photo shows the summer course in 1985
RTÉ's Ear to Ground filming at Shawbrook in early Nineties.