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THE BOLSHOI Ballet’s production of Tchaikovsky’s The Sleeping Beauty will be transmitted live in HD by satellite from Moscow to Galway.

BALLET AFICIONADOS will be delighted to hear that the Monica Loughman Ballet Company will bring its latest production, The Nutcracker, to Town Hall Theatre on Friday November 4 and Saturday 5.

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.

IRISH BALLERINA Monica Loughman is creating a junior branch of the Irish Youth Russian Ballet Company.

European Ballet, one of the most popular and exhilarating touring companies is presenting this colourful, most celebrated and world-favourite ballet Coppelia set to the irresistible score of Delibes in Mullingar Arts Centre on Thursday May 19.

Grainne Mulvey School of Ballet And Modern Dance (formerly Aedeen O’Hagan School Of Ballet) returns to the Watergate stage with three performances of ‘Adventures Under The Sea’.

The world of ballet will never seem the same again as Black Swan, a film which is both beautiful and disturbing, gives us Natalie Portman’s best performance yet as the perfection-seeking ballerina whose dream disintegrates along with her fragile mind.

IN A real treat for Galway ballet lovers, Ireland’s prima ballerina Monica Loughman brings her Irish Youth Russian Ballet Company to the Town Hall Theatre on Sunday February 20, with its production of the classic French ballet, Giselle.

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.