‘For Helen, dance was life. Pure and simple.’ - The Irish Times

Helen Lewis: Shadows Behind the Dance by Maddy Tongue was recently covered in The Irish Times, discussing Helen’s experiences in Terezin during the war, and her prolific dance career in the years after the war.

Tongue, a pupil of Helen’s at the Belfast Modern Dance Group, remarked that,

“It’s important to remember that her life in Northern Ireland was fully about dance. It was not about the Holocaust. She didn’t like being described as a Holocaust survivor and she didn’t talk about it. Yet in her dance there were constant echoes of what she had suffered. Her choreography always concentrated on relationships or loss or being shunned by society.”

Read the full article on the Irish Times website.

Helen Lewis in her home, 1992.