Dancer from the Dance Festival of Irish Choreography is a series of mixed programmes or gatherings of Irish and Irish-identifying choreographers, crossing borders of ethnicity, dance practices, generations, genders and dance styles from Contemporary to sean nós to classical ballet. Now in its 8th year, the festival features over 22 choreographers performing short exciting dance works celebrating the strength and diversity of the Irish identity and the Irish dance landscape.
Partners include Dance Ireland, Project Arts Centre, IFI Irish Film Institute, Dublin City Council, Galway Dance and Millenium, Année européenne des Normands.
'Dancer from The Dance' Festival of Irish Choreography
6th - 8th July
Monday 6th July 2026
10am - 1pm
Dance House
4.30pm – 5.30pm
Project Arts Centre
The Irish Dancing Body – Who Gets to be Irish in Dance?
Moderated by Seona MacReamoinn
Panellists include Louise Costelloe, Dr Ebun Joseph, Ghaliah Conroy
6.30pm
Irish Film Institute
Shawn Fitzgerald Ahearn & Emilie Leriche / One & One Other (Part I)
Ghaliah Conroy/ Sunken Works/Don’t Bite,
Jessie Thompson and Luca Truffarelli/ The Floor is Yours,
Amir Sabra, Stereo 48/ False Awakening,
Alex O’Neill and LA Feeney/ Chapter 1
Adam O’Reilly, RÓIS x hhH/Did ye ever get the Ride at the Wakehouse?
Ingrid Nachstern/ PINS IN HER EYES,
Laura Sarah Dowdall/ Luisne,
Natasha Bourke /The Sang Bowl
8pm
Project Arts Centre
Rory Fitzgerald - CROSS Contamination (Choreographer); dancers: Santiago Novo, Raphael Lacombe, Rory Fitzgerald, Natalie Fabiola Gustavsen, Giacomo Liam Durante
Julie Lockett - LANDGUT (Choreography, performance and text)
Magdalena Hylak - Standing (Choreographer); dancers: Roberta Ceginskaite and Magdalena Hylak
Favour Odusola - Way (Choreography and performance)
Rosie Mullin, God Love Her (Choreography and performance)
Ruaidhri Maguire - Nocte Angelli (Choreography), Dancer Callum McGregor
Grace Cuny - SPACE CADET (Choreography and performance)
BBOYALEON - Solo (Choreography and performance)
Workshop with Dr Christopher Roman
Dance House
10am - 1pm
Dance House
6pm - 6.50pm
Alessandra Azeviche/ Cosmophobia (Performer & Choreographer, Producer Karen Aguiar)
Dylan McGloin & Brian Francis Devaney/ Bog Ballet (Performer & Choreographer)
Kelly Keesing/ Speak to Me (Performer and Choreographer)
LA Feeney/ The Animated Identity (Performer & Choreographer)
Subhashini Goda/ Mallari - Iteration 1 (Performer & Choreographer)
Tadhg Quigley Brennan/ Grief Waving (Performer & Choreographer)
8pm
Project Arts Centre
Ashley Chen (Company Kashyl) - Tumble (Choreography and performance)
Safire Hikari and Yves Lorrhan - Stray (Choreography and performance)
Alex O’Neill - Toss The Feathers (Choreography and performance)
Zoë Ashe Browne - Sibling (Choreographer); dancers: Christina Guieb and Toon Theunissen.
Astrid Sweeney - Work in Progress: Unhinged (Choreographer and performance); soundscape and live performance: Moss Kissing
Fiona Quilligan - Signals (Choreography); music: Fergus Johnston; performers: Dominic Harrison, Niamh O’Flannagain, Jiyeong Kim, and Mirela Romano
BBOYALEON - BBOYALEON Solo (Choreography and performance)
10am – 1pm
DanceHouse
Irish Film Institute
6:30pm
Featured Choreographers
Lucia Kickham
Tobi Omoteso
Dylan Quinn
Edwina Guckian
The screening will be followed by a Q&A with Nicky Larkin hosted by John Scott (Director, Irish Modern Dance Theatre).
8pm
Project Arts Centre
Aneta Dortová - Bolero (Choreography and performance); bandoneon: Agustina Taborda
BBOYALEON - BBOYALEON Solo (Choreography and performance)
Josué Reis - ABIIM: A Body in Internal Motion (Choreography); dancers: Talita Lima, Ikaro Cavalcante and Josué Reis
Subhashini Goda Mallari Iteration 2
Oona Doherty - Almost Blue (Choreography and performance)
James Greenan Finding my Feet
Rory Fitzgerald/ CROSS Contamination
Tobi Balogun/ Di:Aspira (Choreography and performance)
Justine Doswell / Monologue II (Choreographer, in collaboration with Axelle Sechao); text: Marina Carr; performers: Axelle Sechao and Justine Doswell
Cristian Emmanuel Dirocie / Balance
Jessie Thompson / Bench
'Human Geography' , Galway International Arts Festival
13th - 26th July
Human Geography is a community-led dance and storytelling project created with Galway’s migrant communities.
Led by choreographer John Scott, known for working with diverse casts exploring migration and trauma, and performer Alessandra Azeviche, it brings participants together to share personal stories.
Through workshops, lived experience becomes movement and performance, mapping journeys of arrival, identity and belonging. Blending dance, spoken word and ensemble storytelling, it offers a powerful portrait of a diverse, contemporary Galway shaped by shared experience.
In partnership with Galway City Council.
'HYPERACTIVE' , Mermaid Arts Centre, 30th September 2026
HYPERACTIVE is a high-energy human dance installation for five virtuosic outstanding male dancers with wild street energy - dancing styles from Broadway to Jazz to Afro-Brazilian. Athletic, high-energy, funny and exciting, the dancers dive into relentless, physically demanding routines that leaves them visibly exhausted, adding a sense of raw,
vulnerable honesty to the stage. It functions as a "sugar rush" of dance energy that seamlessly translates the raw electricity of street dance into a highly conceptual theatrical setting.
HYPERACTIVE shows a snapshot of contemporary Irish masculinity. Incredibly dynamic, stretching horseplay and dance to the limit and suitable for all, commissioned by Galway International Arts Festival and Dublin Dance Festival, touring internationally to Festival Racconti di Altre Danze, Italy, Espace Culturel Hermine, France and La MaMa Moves Dance Festival, New York.
