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Isabella and Fearghus will perform Tearmann Aiteach/ Queer Sanctuary 

Dance Limerick, 14 September, 7:30pm BOOKING HERE

Dublin Fringe Festival at Project Arts Centre, 19 – 21 September, 3:30pm & 6:15pm,  BOOKING HERE

Dance Cork Firkin Crane, 11-12 October 7:30pm BOOKING HERE

12th – 15th June, 9am – 3pm, Stryx Gallery, Jewellery Quarter, Birmingham

18th – 21st June, 9am – 4pm, Norwegian Church Arts Centre, Cardiff

25th – 28th June, 8.30am – 5pm, Royal Society of Arts, London

As part of Pride Month 2024, Micro Rainbow is celebrating the creativity of LGBTQI refugees and asylum seekers with its first ever exhibition of dance art made as part of its innovative Body and Movement programme.  In 2015, Fearghus initiated the programme with Micro Rainbow as part of The Casement Project.  The programme which is now led by a team of  dance artist-facilitators and an independent producer has expanded from London to Birmingham and Cardiff with the support of funding from Paul Hamlyn Foundation

Dance Your Freedom team:
Leo Menezes, Exhibition Curator
Kevin Lloyd Exhibition Graphic Designer
Sam Williams, Film Maker
Heidi Chiu, Sound Designer
Kate Green, Photographer
Fearghus Ó Conchúir, Artistic Lead
Louisa Borg Costanzi Potts, Producer
Bethany K Knowles, Exhibition Production Manager
Kate Wakeling, Project Evaluator

The Creative team is:
Angela Dennis, Fearghus Ó Conchúir, Osian Meilir Ioan, Devon Nelson, Gerrard Martin, Poppy Norwood, Jerry Lee Dawson, Oluwaseun Olayiwola
Johnny Autin, Shivaangee Agrawal, Kate Taylor , Stephanie Schober, Takeshi Matsumoto.

Dance Ambassadors: Lister M & Hiba N

3-7 June,
Dance Limerick

Fearghus and Isabella will continue the developing a new performance of their Tearmann Aiteach/ Queer Sanctuary practice at Dance Limerick.  They will be working with theatre maker and designer, Choy Ping Ní Chléirigh Ng, lighting designer Gearóid Ó Hallmhuráin and fashion designer Gregor Pituch to prepare events for the autumn with details to be announced soon.

Ceist Residency
Dance Cork Firkin Crane
25 – 29 March

Sharing on Friday 29 March at 6pm.

Tearmann Aiteach / Queer Sanctuary is a choreographic process exploring how to make welcoming spaces of queer sanctuary that support flourishing solidarity and spritely sparkle.
Isabella Oberländer is a dance artist whose choreography and performance practice have aligned her work with a range of queer and feminist art-making in Ireland. Fearghus Ó Conchúir is a dance artist whose work has investigated the politics of gay experience in Ireland.
Isabella will teach a class on Thursday 28 March 11am – 12.30pm, tickets €5
Isabella and Fearghus will present a free end of residency Sharing on Friday 29 March at 6pm. Please email boxoffice [at] firkincrane.ie if you would like to attend.
Developed with the support of the Arts Council, Dance Limerick, Dance Ireland and Dance Cork Firkin Crane.

Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris
Thurs 7 March 2024
Opening/Vernissage from 6.30pm to 9pm

Admission free

Exhibition open until 7 April:
Mon-Sun: 2pm-6pm
Wed: 2pm-8pm

For the opening of CCI’s Project Space #3, Fearghus will perform with visual artist Gabriel Schmitz in an event of live dance and live drawing. Throughout the first half of 2024, in the run-up to the Paris Olympics, the CCI’s main exhibition room is transformed into an evolving space dedicated to experimental projects: installations, performances and conversations will follow one another over the weeks and months in order to explore the links between artistic and sporting expression.
The Project Space will also feature Fearghus’s GAA-based dance video works, Match and Abú

Northern School of Contemporary Dance CONFERENCE 2024
ARTS & CITIZENSHIP: MOVING & BELONGING
Thursday 11th January 2024 – Friday 12th January 2024

As part of the NSCD Conference on Arts & Citizenship, Fearghus and Micro Rainbow Dance Ambassador, Lister will present on the Body and Movement programme for LGBTQ+ refugees and asylum seekers. The programme was initiated as part of The Casement Project and has developed into a Paul Hamlyn Foundation funded four year programme with NGO Micro Rainbow, in London, Birmingham and Cardiff, led by a group of LGBTQ+ dance artists.

This conference seeks to address how notions of arts citizenship can bring new agendas to research.

Short Films Programme 2: Imprints
Lightmoves Festival
November 10 2:30pm
Dance Limerick, St. John’s Church, John’s Square
Book here

As part of Lightmoves Festival 2023, Abú will be screened alongside five short films.

Tearmann Aiteach/Queer Sanctuary
National Dance Platform Ireland Showcase
Tipperary Dance Festival
STAC Chapel, Davis Road, Kickham Plaza, Clonmel
17:00, Fri Oct 13, 2023,
Book here

The National Dance Platform Ireland showcases performances by emerging and established Ireland-based artists. This year, Zoë Ashe-Browne, Magdalena Hylak, Isabella Oberländer & Fearghus O Conchuir, Liz Roche, Amir Sabra and John Scott are all invited to showcase an extract of a piece, or work in progress of their brand new work.

The Art of Sport
Kilkenny Arts Festival 2023
12 August – 10 October
Butler Gallery, Evans’ Home, Kilkenny
Free

Abú, Fearghus’ work for Step Up 2022, will be screened as part of The Art of Sport, an exhibition curated by Butler Gallery director Anna O’ Sullivan that explores how artists have captured the spirit of sport in their work conveyed through . The exhibition features an eclectic fusion of both Irish and international artists that will populate the Main Gallery with works in disparate mediums such as video, photography, painting, print and sculpture. The exhibition is presented as part of Kilkenny Arts Festival 2023.

Riverine
Step Up Dance Project 2023
Dance Limerick, St John’s Square
2 and 3 August, 19:30
Book here

‘Riverine’ explores the concept and realities of rivers. Drawing on the vital importance of the river Shannon for the city of Limerick, choreographer Maria Nilsson Waller has worked with the company of this year’s Step Up Project to cast a wider net that examines the idea of flow, of embodying a place and collaborating with nature.

The structure of the piece follows the journey of streams joining together, forming themselves into the River Shannon. In a flow of constantly falling, rolling and circling it hits Limerick under the moonlight, taking inspiration from everyday life and mythology. Eventually it dissolves into the ocean, only to return to land again with the wind and new dawn.

Step Up is a programme of professional development for recent dance graduates from Ireland or based in Ireland. Curated this year by Fearghus Ó Conchúir, it introduces audiences in Ireland to a group of fresh dance talent that will enrich the country’s dance ecology for years to come. Since it began in 2011, the project has helped over 70 talented young dance graduates to bridge the gap between dance education and professional contemporary dance practice, and to assist them in building networks that support a professional career.

Choreographer Maria Nilsson Waller presents Riverine, a Step Up 2023 piece to be premiered at Dance Limerick
Choreography Maria Nilsson Waller
Performed by Ghaliah Conroy, Fionnuala Doyle Wade, Saoirse Lambkin O’Kane, Ben Sullivan and Jessie Thompson
Step Up curator Fearghus Ó Conchúir
Rehearsal director Lucia Kickham
Music Stace Gill and Ross Dowling / The Sei
Costume design Ella Daly
Photography Maurice Gunning
Production management & Lighting design Gearoid O Hallmhurain
Sound engineering Jacob Woulfe
Communications Leonor Miralles

The Step Up Dance Project is a collaboration between Dance Limerick, the Irish World Academy, Dance Ireland and the Arts Council of Ireland.