Dancing the Tune
Saturday 14th September | 1.00pm - 3.00pm | Sibéal Davitt and Úna Monaghan
A joyful and dynamic workshop exploring the possibilities for traditional Irish tunes within the body, moving the focus from the feet and expanding to full bodied movement. With live improvised music by Úna Monaghan. The second half of the workshop will focus on the use of interactive technology to expand the awareness of sound and the body.
About the Artists
Sibéal Davitt is a dance artist, performer and teacher from Dublin. Her style of dance is influenced by contemporary, classical and Irish traditional sean-nós dance, having trained in all styles from an early age. In 2019 Sibéal was one of five recipients of An Chomhairle Ealaíon’s inaugural Markievicz award. She was Dance Ireland’s Associate Artist in 2020 and used these supports to develop new works. Her acclaimed solo dance show Minseach (she-goat) premiered at Dublin Fringe Festival in 2021 and is currently touring venues around Ireland. In May 2024 she was commissioned by CoisCéim Dance Theatre and Waterways Ireland to make a short site specific work entitled Bench#3 which premiered at Dublin Dance Festival.
Úna Monaghan is a harper, composer, researcher and sound artist. She collaborates, improvises and performs with poets, visual artists, computers, writers, musicians, and others. Úna has held artist residencies at the Centre Culturel Irlandais Paris, the Institute for the Public Life of Arts and Ideas Montréal, and Atlantic Music Festival, Maine, USA. She performs solo with harp and electronics and with new sextet Stone Drawn Circles. She has released two albums of her compositions, most recently Aonaracht, for solo traditional musicians and electronics. Úna received the inaugural Liam O’Flynn Award from the Arts Council of Ireland and the National Concert Hall Dublin, and held the Rosamund Harding Research Fellowship in Music at NewnhamCollege, University of Cambridge from 2016-2019. She is a lecturer in Sound and Music at Queen’s University Belfast, where her research examines the intersections between Irish traditional music, experimental music practices, improvisation and interactive technologies.
Gallery
Image credits: Úna Monaghan by LostLensCap and Carrie Davenport; Sibéal Davitt in Minseach - images Simon Lazewski
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Ticket Prices
- Performance tickets - £11 / £8.80 concession each including booking fee
- Workshops - £5.50 including booking fee
- Exhibition - Free
Booking
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Accessibility information
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Festival Supporters
Produced by Echo Echo Dance Theatre Company in partnership with University of Limerick.
Echo Echo Festival Presents 'Tradition and Beyond 2024' is kindly supported by the Department for Tourism Culture Arts Gaeltacht Sport and Media Co-operation with Northern Ireland Funding Scheme.
Echo Echo Principal Funder is the Arts Council of Northern Ireland and The National Lottery through ACNI. Echo Echo is supported by Derry City and Strabane District Council and the Garfield Weston Foundation.
