Violet Moore was born in Dublin Ireland into a large, musically talented family. Many of Violet's 12 siblings participated in Irish Dance, and as she recounts, she had to wait her turn to take lessons. Impatient to get started she would make her brothers and sisters teach her. Finally her day arrived and she joined the Genockey School in Dublin. Early on her talents for dance and teaching emerged. She enjoyed great competitive success as Irish Dance became the focus of her young life. Her adventures abroad began when she left home for Canada to help her sister care for her young children.
Violet began teaching Irish Dance in Winnipeg in 1957, shortly after arriving from Dublin. Teaching came out of a love of dance, but more importantly it eased the pain of being homesick for Ireland. That, and it kept her warm from the blistering Canadian winters.
A few years later, married and expecting her first child, she and her husband moved to Vancouver. As luck would have it,on her first day in her new home in Vancouver, the bells of St. Patrick's Church literally called her. There she found not only an Irish parish, but two parishoners who were Irish dance teachers. Serendipity!
Monica Dunne and Erin O'Daly just happened to be the two women responsible for all the Irish dancing that went on in the City of Vancouver. Erin hired Violet immediately to teach her students the slip jig, as Erin herself had never danced one. So it began!
On the six month anniversary of the birth of Violet's beautiful baby girl (September 29th,1963), Violet opened the doors of her own dance school, in the same Church, St. Patrick's, that had beckoned her just months before.
Violet has barely stopped to take a breath since that day. Hundreds of dancers have passed through her school,many staying for years. Violet is passionate about sharing her love of dance with children and adults alike. Her classes have gone from church basements, to parks, to community centres, to halls, and even to her own home. Where there are willing feet and hearts, she'll teach,no doubt for many more years to come.
Violet's love of dance began at a very young age. Pictured here (bottom row,left corner) age eight, with her Dublin dance school "Genockey.". Violet's brother Liam is standing behind her, second from the left.
* TCRG certification at age 19
* ADCRG certification at age 27
* Adjudicator to The World's
* Adjudicator, Nationally and Internationally at over 100 Feiseanna
* Examiner of TCRG, and ADCRG certifications
* In 1996, contracted to lead workshops for the Mainstage company of The Charlottetown Festival (Anne of Green Gables troupe)
* With great pride has lauched
the careers of a number of TCRG
certified Irish Dance Teachers
* Has had the wonderful privilege
of teaching Irish Dancing to
countless inspiring children and adults
