What is your idea of perfect happiness?
A healed planet.
Which historical figure do you most identify with?
BFG.
Which living person do you most admire?
Madonna! Not always though.
Which is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
Self absorbed.
What is your greatest extravagance?
My camper van and wedding dress.
What is your favourite journey?
To Gweedore beaches in my campervan, with my daughter, for wild camping with my family, and listening to loud, banging, music.
On what occasion do you lie?
When I’m caught.
Which living person do you most despise?
Donald Trump.
What or who is the greatest love of your life?
My husband.
When and where were you happiest?
On a beach, surrounded by water and sun.
Which talent would you most like to have?
To really fly with wings.
What is your current state of mind?
Unsettled.
What do you consider your greatest achievement?
Bringing and growing aerial dance/arts to/in ireland.
If you were to die and come back as a person or a thing, what do you think it would be?
A white horse that can run and fly on the waves of the ocean.
What is your most treasured possession?
My new fridge that gives me ice for my GnT’s.
What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
Isolation.
What is your favourite occupation?
My job as creative director of Fidget Feet.
What is the quality you most like in a man?
Honesty.
What is the quality you most like in a woman?
Honesty.
Who are your favourite writers?
Adi Da Samraj.
What is your motto?
“True art is healing”.
Chantal McCormick is the creative director and co-founder of Fidget Feet Aerial Dance Theatre, which presents A Handful of Dreams as part of Galway International Arts Festival 2021 until Sunday September 12, outdoors at the commercial boat club, Woodquay. For more information and tickets see www.giaf.ie
