Jean Butler: ‘When that show closed, I wasn’t sure if I would ever dance again – it felt like such a public failure’
As she returns for a TG4 lifetime achievement award, the dancer looks back on her career
‘I’m not in the business of talking about myself,” Jean Butler says somewhat uncomfortably.
We’re speaking because Jean is receiving a Lifetime Achievement at the Gradam Ceoil TG4 awards in May. She’s sitting in her office in the New York home she shares with her husband Cuan Hanly, an elegant sun-filled cream room. The woman herself is wearing a black polo-neck and black glasses, her red hair poker-straight.
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