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NEXT WEEKEND sees the latest instalment of Music For Galway’s annual midwinter festival. This year’s offering is entitled Intimate Voices and offers a varied musical programme, ranging from the 17th to the 21st century, as well as a unique combination of artistry involving voice, dance, literature, drama, and visual art, as well as two internationally renowned quartets.

INTIMATE VOICES, Music For Galway’s annual January festival, will not only appeal to chamber music fans, but enthusiasts of the visual artists, dance, and jazz.

INTIMATE VOICES, Music For Galway’s annual January festival, promises something quite different, and an unusual and exciting way to start 2012.

EIGHT GIFTED Galway dance students, members of Corrib Dance Academy and Youth Ballet West, have recently secured placements on elite courses at prestigious schools in the UK and mainland Europe. The eight dancers are Stephanie Dufresne, Mary Walsh, Elspeth McKeever, Rebecca Lee, Caitlin Langan, Jessica Nolan, Brigitte O’Reilly and Gemma Brook. To have so many dancers from the region progressing to these blue-chip establishments is a truly remarkable achievement, as Youth Ballet West director Judith Sibley explains; “Normally each year there would be four young dancers from all of Ireland going away to these top vocational colleges, so to have eight going from Galway city is phenomenal. And these are hugely competitive courses, one school I spoke to had 4,000 people apply for just 25 places.”

Shannon Dance Academy is delighted to announce it has a fantastic new website. For information on the academy, wonderful images, and an insight into the ethos of Shannon Dance Academy, visit www.shannondanceacademy.com.

GALWAY DANCE company Chrysalis Dance have had their piece Connect For included in this year’s Dublin Dance Festival.

LITTLE RED Riding Hood, the Sugar Plum Fairy, and Goldilocks will all come to life on the stage when Youth Ballet West perform at the Town Hall Theatre next week.

3 PIECE Suite, a new show from Chrysalis Dance, featuring a triple bill of world premieres - Turn Out The Stars, The Other Way, and Connect For - will be performed in Galway this month.

Shannon Dance Academy based in St Mary’s National School, Athlone, re-opens its doors on September 6.

Shannon Dance Academy presents An Evening of Dance, on Saturday March 27 at 8pm and Sunday March 28 at 3pm at the Dean Crowe Theatre, Athlone.