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Sat 04 Apr 2007The sweet steps of a masterOn The Town:The Butler family were out in force for the opening of the first solo dance programme, Does She Take Sugar?, from Jean Butler at the Project Arts Centre in Dublin this week. Two slim, red-haired women turned out to be the dancer's younger sister, Cara Butler, and her mother, Josephine Butler, who grew up in Ballyhaunis in Co Mayo. They were joined at the first night by other family members."I took her to dancing when she was in America because I wanted her to keep the culture," said Josephine, recalling her own mother, who also took her to dancing lessons when she was a child growing up in the west of Ireland. Mae Byrne, who died last year, was aged 99, she said.