Monica Loughman is an Irish ballet dancer, writer, and television personality. She has featured on Ballet Chancers, a 2008 television series which saw her attempt to train six young people, schooled in hip hop, to appreciate the art of ballet.[1] Loughman has also co-written a book on her experiences as an Irish child in Russia. She has appeared in numerous publications including The Meath Chronicle, The Sunday Business Post and Woman's Way, as well as numerous other television shows such as Dustin's Daily News, The Podge and Rodge Show, Tubridy Tonight, The Cafe and The Panel,The Late Late Show many in February 2007.
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Loughman left Ireland at the age of fourteen for Perm Sate Ballet in Russia, becoming one of the few Westerners to dance for the prestigious Perm State Theatre of Opera and Ballet.[2] Monica also has her own ballet school and ballet company , The Irish Youth Russian Ballet Company.
“If a teacher hits you, it means they're paying attention to you. It was better to be hit than to be ignored.”
Loughman has co-written a book, The Irish Ballerina, with County Meath-based author, Jean Harrington, who helped the former Dublin prostitute Martina Keogh write her story in Survivor. Published in 2004 by Maverick House Publishers, the book discusses her childhood Russian experiences performing ballet.[3] The book was reviewed in The Meath Chronicle[4] and The Sunday Business Post[5] and Loughman was interviewed for the magazine Woman's Way in December 2004.[6]
On 21 September 2006, Loughman appeared on Dustin's Daily News.[7] Loughman appeared on the twenty-fourth episode of the third season of The Podge and Rodge Show, alongside the celebrity solicitor Gerald Kean on 11 February 2007. On 15 February 2007, she appeared on young chat programme, The Cafe, alongside celebrity weatherman Dáithí Ó Sé and Luan Parle.[8] On 17 February 2007, Loughman appeared on the primetime chat show, Tubridy Tonight, alongside Bill O'Herlihy, Fionnula Flanagan and The Waterboys.[9] On 4 December 2008, Loughman resurrected her sequence of guest appearances when she appeared on The Panel alongside the journalist Niall Stanage.[10]
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