Biography

Fearghus Ó Conchúir is an independent choreographer and dance artist. Brought up in the Ring Gaeltacht in Ireland, he completed degrees in English and European Literature at Magdalen College Oxford, before training at London Contemporary Dance School.

In addition to his own choreography, he has danced for other companies such as Adventures in Motion Pictures, Catapult Dance Company, Ciotóg, Claire Russ Ensemble and Arc Dance Company, where he was assistant to the choreographer, Kim Brandstrup.

He was the first Ireland Fellow on the Clore Leadership Programme and continues to contribute to the programme as a facilitator and speaker. He is a current Board member of Project Arts Centre and of  Dance Digitial and a former board member of Create and of Dance Ireland. He contributes to Imeall, TG4′s flagship arts programme.  He is one of the choreographers currently supported by modul dance, a network of European dancehouses.

His major creative preoccupation has been the relationship between bodies and buildings in the context of urban regeneration, a preoccupation that has manifested itself in film and in live performance in Europe, the US and China.  Recent projects include Tattered Outlaws of History – a 12-screen site-specific installation of films about the Martello Towers of Fingal, commissioned by Fingal Co Council Per Cent for Art Scheme; Dialogue – a collaboration with Chinese dance artist Xiao Ke, performed for the Shanghai World Expo; and Mo Mhórchoir Féin – dance film commissioned for RTÉ’s Dance on the Box series.  In 2011, in addition to premiering Tabernacle, he is collaborating with Dan Dubowitz to make  a new site specific installation in response to the Martello Towers of England’s East Coast that premieres in June.

Fearghus is part of Project Catalyst, the Associate Artist initiative of Project Arts Centre.

‘Ó Conchúir has an intellectual restlessness that pulls him in different directions, but his sure-footedness, … will ensure his ideas continue to be communicated limpidly’  Michael Seaver, Ballet Tanz Yearbook 2006

Michael Seaver writes about Fearghus in The Irish Times – Read Article