Ballet Chancers
6 x 26min series for RTÉ One
Ballet Chancers is an RTÉ One series factual entertainment series first broadcast Autumn 2008 where Ireland’s premier ballerina, Monica Loughman, embarks on the ultimate challenge. She takes a bunch of streetwise hip hop dancers and teaches them to become elegant ballet dancers in four short months. Months of gruelling rehearsals, tears, tantrums and injuries culminated in a performance of the Nutcracker Suite to a packed audience in Dublin’s Helix theatre last December.
Ballet Chancers rated an average of 26% share, was well-received by critics and has received an IFTA nomination in the best factual category at the 2009 IFTA awards.
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