the group is led by chantelle mccormick, a leading voice in the challenges for the arts in ireland duringn terms of the performers, how much training, education, how much do they have to learn before they could do this? it's a long journey because it is a very highly skilled thing you need to get, and that was hard during lockdown because these artists need to keep their skills because they have to do it every day. we are kind of looking at ireland almost through a post—pandemic lands. —— lens. how can you see irish culture moving forward and progressing? are you seeing optimistic signs? when you are a company, a lot of the times i feel to be recognised as an aerial company or a dance company, it's like you have to go international and when you are international, then you can come back to ireland and then you are famous, and it's really interesting what this pandemic has taught us is we cannot rely on constantly going out of your own country to be this, so what is the riches inside of here, so this is the irish language, the dancers and the music and it's the area we now have, so i don't