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TWO students of Breakthrough Dance Company in Ennis have represented Ireland at the World Dance Cup and earned themselves respectable positions among the top-class finalists, writes Conor Clohessy. Leilani (14) and Saoirse Kent (12) had been taking contemporary dance classes with Breakthrough for several years before they decided to audition for Team Ireland in 2019 and were on-course to going to Rome for the Dance World Cup in 2020 before Covid restrictions prevented it. Instead, entries were taken in video format, and the girls entered a total of three categories; Leilani placed 19th in the world in the “lyrical” category, Saoirse earned herself 23rd place in the “contemporary” category, and the sisters combined their efforts to achieve 10th in the world for their contemporary duet entry. Laura Jane Allis, founder of Breakthrough Dance Company and their dance instructor, said: “The competition scene is relatively new to the school, it wasn’t ever something we had focused on in the past, but …
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