Alessandra is an Afro-Brazilian contemporary dancer, Capoeira performer & instructor from Salvador, Bahia. A reference for Afro-Brazilian culture in Ireland, Alessandra has worked with major European choreographers since relocating to Irealnd. She is currently producing her debut solo show to be premiered at Dublin Fringe Festival 2024 and developing the first 'Quilombo Terra' - a resistance movement based on de-colonisation and embodied, afro-indigenous knowledge.

Yeman was born and raised in Tallahassee, Fl. In addition to receiving his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance from The Florida State University, he studied as a scholarship student at Ailey School and at The American Dance Festival. Theatre credits include Jagged Little Pill (Broadway), Dancin' (Broadway), and movement direction for “As Much as I Can” at The Public Theatre. Yeman has also been featured in music videos by Mumford & Sons, The Jonas Brothers, and Amanda Palmer. In addition to performance work, Yeman has led movement workshops around the world that encourage dancers and non-dancers alike to find joy in movement as a way of understanding our human experience. This is Yeman's first performance with IMDT

is a movement artist and choreographer specialising in contemporary dance. Inez trained with Dublin Youth Dance Company followed by  attending a full-time training programe at The School of Dance and Ballet Fouetté in Poznań, Poland, graduating with a diploma in 2021. She trained further at the Madrid Dance Centre in a professional ballet training programme working with choreographers like Ivan Bareto and Eva Martz before pursuing an MA in contemporary dance in The Irish World Academy of Music and Dance in Limerick. Inez has been working with Irish Modern Dance Theatre since 2022 in the creation process of “The Wanderer”, “Othello, maybe a dance” and “Divine Madness”. She performed in the Galway Cathedral in “Physical Semaphores”. Inez is interested creating her own choreography with a recent performance and co-creation with Kaini Zhao “Symbiosis performed at The Irish Youth Dance Festival and solo work “Explicitness in its object”. Inez is fascinated by movement exploration and endless artistic possibilities and likes to investigate this further in her visual and written work.

Born in Brazil in 1988, Yves Lorrhan is a dancer who has had dance in his life since he was 9 years old, and during these 24 years of movement, his technical base is ballroom dancing, but he brings physical experiences with dance. Contemporary, ballet and afro dance. He believes that we all have dance inside us and that through it, we can have a more humane society. This is Yves first performance with IMDT

Becky Reilly has danced with IMDT on and off  for over 15 years. The last piece she performed in was in 2020 Dances for Inside and Outside. She currently teaches creative dance to kids and works as an EMT. She is very happy to be involved in this work!

Kama is an Irish based contemporary dance artist who began her training with Dublin

Youth Dance Company from 2015 – 2022 under the directorship of Mariam Ribon 

In DYDC Kama worked with an array of established choreographers such as:

Liz Roche, John Scott, Philip Conaughton, Muirne Bloomer, guest international choreographers Toni Bravo (US), Juan Maria Seller (Portugal), Helen Wilson (UK) and with teachers Mariam Ribón, Justine Doswell, Karla Holden, and Kate Haughton. Kama has been working with Justine Doswell since 2019. Kama received a bursary Award through EMERGENCE and has shown her own work in Dancer from the Dance Festival.

Kama has been featured in dance films "Tasting an Organised Dream" by Alexandra Vostokova funded and in Adam O'Reilly's film "Oscillation". Kama has also taken a one year course in contemporary dance in PERA North Cyprus 2022 working with Fabian Thome, Penelope Morout, Yaghvali Falzari, Vittoria Ferrari, Rafaela Sahyoun, and Jean Abreu.

Kama now plans to begin creating her own works, develop her artistic practice, and network with interdispilary communities to broaden the scope of contemporary dance amongst artists in Ireland and abroad. ’This is Kama's first performance with IMDT

Alex Vostokova is an Irish dancer, choreographer, and director: working across live performance, improvisation and film. She has been awarded from Arts Council Ireland, dlr county council, and Dance Ireland to further both creation and artistic development.

Since 2017 she had been extensively involved with Dublin Youth Dance Company which facilitated her growth and development in contemporary dance. She continued her training across several dance hubs in Europe, most prominently in Berlin: engaging with contemporary, street dance, circus and physical theater practices.

Alex has performed in works by: Liz Roche, John Scott, Simone O’Toole, Pan Pan Theatre, Dance2Connect, Jessie Thompson and Kate Haughton in Ireland. This is Alex's first performance with IMDT.

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