Limerick students help their dance teacher get ‘crucial’ surgery
A GROUP of students have joined forces to help their dance teacher get the “crucial” surgeries he needs.
Students from the Limrockers Cru have appealed for help after their teacher, Barry ‘Baz’ Burke was injured.
Barry is a full-time dance teacher in Limerick with the Limerockers Cru, a hip-hop group located in Limerick city.
He teaches dance styles such as bboying (breakdancing), popping, locking and house.
“Hi, we're b-boy students of Baz (Barry Burke). We started this fundraiser so our teacher can undergo the crucial surgeries he needs to recover from knee and shoulder injuries gradually sustained during his 20 year legacy teaching kids and serving the community,” read their message.
Speaking of their teacher, the Limrockers Cru said: “Barry is an invaluable breaking and hip-hop teacher in the dance community throughout Ireland.
“He also created the syllabus for the Irish Olympic Breaking Organisation, providing specific training, hope and opportunity for the youth of Ireland to make Olympic level and represent Ireland someday.”
Speaking of the teacher's injuries, they explained: “Barry is a full-time dance teacher. As teaching is his only means of income, and he is self-employed, no external aid is available to him during times of need.
“The nature of these injuries will continue to worsen without intervention and render him incapable of continuing to teach or partake in this passionate sport.”
According to Barry's students, the dance community wouldn't be the same without him.
“This would not only be a massive loss and devastation to the dance community as a whole, but primarily the countless children who's lives he has touched, and continues to change for the better.
Please give whatever you can to help Baz towards his healing journey,” read their appeal.
If you wish to help Barry, you can donate here: www.gofundme.com/f/teacher-barr
y-burke-receive-crucial-surgery.