- Director Barbara Joyce

Barbara danced as a child in her native country, Ireland, until the age of eighteen. After she was married, she and her husband and two children moved to the U.S.A. to Kingston, New York. There, she joined an adult group of dancers and continued to dance. She then began to teach set dancing and ceili dancing. These styles of dancing are mostly for adults, but you will now find young adults and teen-agers enjoying them, too.

In 1996, Barbara moved to Atlanta and started teaching Irish Dancing just for fun until she realized there was a great demand for it. She then joined the Drake School of Irish Dance in Atlanta and assisted in teaching for eight years. Barbara now teaches in Carrollton, Douglasville, Newnan, LaGrange and Rome, Georgia. She teaches her students all three styles of Irish Dance, which is very rare: step dancing, set dancing, and ceili dancing.

Barbara is well known for her patient, kind, and nurturing style of teaching. Many of the student's parents have told her she has the "patience of a Saint". She has even taught two hearing-impaired to dance and become competitive dancers. Both of these girls competed and won at major competitions. The judges were amazed at their skill and at how Barbara could teach children who could not hear the music.