Professional Class with Helga Deasy

Cultivating curiosity and presence, the class focuses on developing bodily awareness, expressivity and creative skills through play and relational practice.

We will explore the somatic principles of breath, touch and connectivity within the body and into the ground, investigating the relationship between movement and sensation.

Through structured improvisation frameworks, movement scores and playful tasks, we will experiment with composition, physical states and modes of expression. The class moves between guided structures and open-ended exploration, encouraging both precision and spontaneity.

Helga Deasy (Ireland/Germany) is a choreographer, dance artist and dance facilitator. Exploring themes of identity, belonging, migration and care through the immediate expressive potential of the moving body, her practice encompasses performance making, cross-disciplinary collaboration and socially engaged dance. It is grounded in choreological studies and her research into somatic practices and empowerment.

She feels passionate about the transformative potential of dance and works in arts and health settings, is a lead-facilitator on the Teacher Artist Partnership Programme and an early-years arts practitioner with Graffiti Theatre Company.

Supported by the Arts Council, Cork City and County Councils and Culture Ireland, she has created a body of work presented nationally and internationally including dance ensemble performance productions, choreography for theatre and site-specific works with a socially engaged focus.

Helga was Dance Artist in Residence with Uillinn West Cork Arts Centre (2017-18), Dance Cork Firkin Crane (2021-23) and Graffiti Theatre Company (2023-24).

In 2025 she was selected as a Creative Europe Artist for BABEL – The Art of Listening in TYA.

With kind support from the Arts Council, she currently researches native Irish trees and the Ogham Calendar in an embodied, co-creative process with nature.