Rinnceoirí / Dancers

Monica Loughman is regarded as Ireland’s best-known and most accomplished Ballerina.  She has four ballet schools in Dublin and other schools around Ireland have adopted her teaching model. Monica began her ballet training aged 4 training once a week in Dublin before moving to Russia at the age of 14 to train with the Perm…

Nic Gareiss has studied a broad variety of percussive movement forms from around the world.  At age eight he began taking tap lessons with Sam Williams at Vision Studio of Performing Arts in Mount Pleasant, Michigan.  Soon after, he was exposed to fiddle music and traditional dance at the Wheatland Music Organization’s annual Traditional Arts…