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This archive contains ephemera from Northern Ireland dance groups, dating 1977-2002. It includes leaflets, programmes, photographs and magazine articles relating to Helen Lewis, Hoi Polloi, Community Dance ’96, Ulster Youth Dance, Adele Sloan’s School of Ballet, and Maiden Voyage. Documents of particular note in this collection include an article in the Arts Council of Northern Ireland publication: Just Dance…! about Jenny Elliott, a health professional and dance teacher/ choreographer who won the Belfast City Council Arts Award for Dance; and a large scale community dance project titled Community Dance ’96, initiated in 1995 by Anthea McWilliams, Martin Lynch, Kathy O'Connor, and Tura Arutura.

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Just Dance, 1996

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Sandy Cuthbert (photograph)

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Just Dance... Making an International Splash!

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Community Dance Project '96

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