I very confidently ask incredibly stupid questions sometimes. If you could have a super power, what would it be? What advice would you give your 18-year-old self? They drove us home in the back of their cop car and I’ve never been in one since! When the police stopped us in the street, I thought it was about the candy, but it wasn’t. We stopped at a store and tried to nick some peanut M&M’s. When I was in second grade, I ran away after school with my friend. What’s been your closest brush with the law? What’s the last TV show you binge-watched? We need to look after our dance in the same way. Traditional music has an entire building on Merrion Square. The fact that there is so little formal video and audio documentation on Irish dance was incomprehensible to me. I wish I could interview him for the Our Steps Oral History Collection and Archive, which I started in 2018. The late Ted Kavanagh, a great dancer and dancing teacher who taught in London and was one of the most influential teachers of the day. ![]() ![]() What character from history would you like to have met? I’d like to believe in life after death, but I’m not holding out much hope in reality. I always light a candle for my mom, grandma, and people I know it would mean something to, but I don’t believe in God. I really like going into churches, not to pray, but to be quiet and still. Surround yourself with really smart people. What’s the best piece of advice you’ve been given? My most treasured new thing in my life has to be our dog, Breac. I’ve never been big on ‘things’ or having a lot of stuff, though I am quite attached to my books, which I have a lot of. I don’t identify with Miss Julie, Hedda Gabler, or Nora Helmer, but I remember studying these plays and being amazed at how women were written by men and how societal pressures shaped their lives because of their gender. Which fictional character do you most identify with? My grandmother from Mayo who is no longer with us, my husband’s father who I sadly never had the chance to meet, and after that, Merce Cunningham, Virginia Woolf, and Anthony Bourdain. ![]() Who would you most like to go for a pint with?
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