When the first iteration of Sky Dancers was presented soon after, it was only 15 minutes and three scenes long and it involved just a few dancers. "It started really tiny, like a seed," Diabo says.
Diabo enlarged her work over several years, thanks to grants such as the $120,000 she received from the NAC s National Creation Fund, which since 2018 has provided about $3 million annually to support new theatre, dance and music projects.