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Singapore in 31 years. McCuly had played Clara the last time it had been staged. In the same year, she choreographed for the Eurasian contingent at the 1990 National Day Parade. McCully choreographed for the 800-member combined schools choir at the 1994 and 1996
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December that she was perhaps the only local "full-time dancer", noting that she supported herself by giving private dance lessons, teaching English, appearing on television and choreographing for fashion shows and nightclub singers. She performed with the troupe in
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Singaporeans to "take up ballet seriously" in the 1960s and that in the 1970s, "whenever there was any dance show in TV, it was inevitably McCully dancing."
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22:(born 1949) is a Singaporean ballet dancer, choreographer and dance instructor. She founded the Sylvia McCully School of Dancing and has choreographed dance sequences for multiple
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reported that she was a "leading local ballerina". On 27 January, McCully, then a member of the newly-formed
National Dance Company, appeared on the back page of the
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