Weekly Professional Class with Siobhán Ní Dhuinnín

Siobhán’s class focuses on generating mobility and heat through somatic, contemporary and improvisation techniques. With a focus on movement explorations that attend to what movement feels like, rather than imitating an ideal form, she aims to make class accessible for all physicalities. These classes offer a space to build and hone skills and to move with other artists.

Suitable for experienced dancers.

Siobhán Ní Dhuinnín is a dance artist from Cork, Ireland. The primary focus of her work is on place-based and site-specific dance film and live performance. Siobhán enjoys a multidisciplinary and collaborative approach and has created work with sean-nós singers,
poets, geologists, boat-builders and visual artists. Her main curiosities include; multi-lingual working environments, intergenerational gatherings, community structures and finding ways to connect through the body to our surroundings. She often asks ‘why do people dance?’ Participation is a key strand of Siobhán's work, her intention is to facilitate performance projects that give people from all walks of life the opportunity to dance and perform. Most recently she directed and facilitated Country OK, a participatory project with anintergenerational cast of 22 dancers, which premiered in Cork Midsummer Festival 2024. Siobhán’s work has been shown nationally and internationally including at Dublin Dance Festival, Tipperary Dance Platform, Echo Echo Festival of Movement and Dance, Dance Limerick, Folkestone Fringe (UK), Florida State University (USA) and Kaunas Biennial (LT).

Siobhán trained at Northern School of Contemporary Dance (UK) and subsequently completed a Masters in Contemporary Dance Performance, Irish World Academy of Music and Dance graduating in 2012. She has performed with Joan Davis, Jessie Keenan, Junk Ensemble, Laura Murphy, Mary Nunan and Mary Wycherley. Siobhán was also a member of Croí Glan Inclusive Dance Company performing works by Fearghus Ó Conchúir and David
Bolger. Siobhán is an Arts Council Next Generation Award recipient. She was Associate Artist at Dance Limerick and the Irish World Academy, University of Limerick (2021-2022). She often works bi-lingually in Irish and English and was Dance Artist in Residence, Ionas Cultúrtha an Dochtúir Ó Loingsigh 2018-2020.