Soleil Gray's hands had been lean and strong from the rigors of her athletic stage dancing.

I loved dancing the night away on the dance floor, and that led to stage dancing in clubs, she said.

It freewheels in a non-purpose-built space, with the audience on stage dancing at the beginning, and latterly standing for the 90-minute show.

With Sir William Davenant as patentee and manager of the Duke's Theatre, stage dancing and singing acquired a more distinguished position among theatrical entertainments.

Bonfires blazed in nearly every village and town in Wexford, and, from every pub and stage Dancing.