10th August 2017
We are setting up a new Physical Dance Theatre group in Belfast for boys aged 8 – 10 years, led by dancer/choreographer Kevin Murphy. The group will meet at the Girdwood Community Hub on Saturday afternoons from 2-4pm starting 23rd September.
If you are interested or know somebody who is and want to book a place, or you want more information, please contact us on 9033 0956 or email.
3rd August 2017
We are delighted to announce that we have been awarded 2 grants from BBC Children in Need for work over the next 3 years. The main grant award will help support our new Carers Project which is being delivered in partnership with Barnardo’s NI, while the small grant fund will help continue our work with Sutemos in Dungannon. Thank you Children In Need for believing in us and our work. Can’t wait to get started!
10th July 2017
In July & August we are hosting fun, lively, taster dance activities for young people wanting to get involved in dance & performance in Dungannon and Ballymoney.
Everyone welcome, all abilities. Get in touch if you want more information or drop us a message to confirm your place.
Alternative Energies Summer Camp – Ballymoney
31st July – 4th August, 2-5pm
Ages 12-18 years old
Joey Dunlop Leisure Centre, Ballymoney
Cost: £10 p/p which includes a group trip on Friday 4th August to Crannagh Activity Centre in Coleraine.
This work is supported in kind by Causeway Coast & Glens Borough Council.
Sutemos Summer Camp – Dungannon
Monday 28th August – Thursday 31st August,1-5pm.
Ages 8-18 years olds.
Dungannon Youth Resource Centre
Cost: Free
This work is supported in kind by Dungannon Youth Resource Centre.
29th June 2017
DU Dance & Beyond Skin showcased music and dance from across the world to help celebrate World Music Day and International Refugee Week. The performance at the Braid Theatre featured a dance performance with young people from Ballymoney which had been specifically created for the event & music performances from artists representing Syria, South Sudan, Poland, Greece, Ireland, Slovakia, Ghana & South Africa.
This unique event celebrating Féte de la Musique was a collaboration between DU Dance NI & Beyond Skin and was funded by Arts Council of Northern Ireland. It was a brilliant night, with such a strong feeling of unity. Congratulations and thank you to everyone involved.
In May/June DU Dance teamed up with Beyond Skin to deliver part 1 of Building Bridges – Care. With the support of Lisburn Central Library the team delivered a series of music, dance and storytelling workshops with local young people, which resulted in pop-up performances across Lisburn City Centre. The performances marked World Refugee Day 2017. The sun shone, the shoppers boogied along and the fun was mighty….
Well done to everyone involved. Watch out for parts 2 & 3 of this project which could be in your area!!!
DU Dance (NI) with Beyond Skin present, Building Bridges, an intercultural arts performance arising from an exciting new venture exploring human stories through music, storytelling and dance with young people aged 12 to 18 years in the Lisburn and Ballymena areas.
This outreach project led by a team of four professional artists – Thomas Annang, Ghanaian drummer Nandi Jola, South African Storyteller with contemporary dance artists and choreographers Mags Byrne and Conor ‘Doke’ O’Kane from Northern Ireland will culminate in two special, free, public events on Tuesday 20th June in Lisburn Market Square and on Wednesday June 21st at The Braid Arts Centre, Ballymena to mark World Refugee Day and World Music Day with performances also by Orchestre des Réfugiés et Amis.
The “Refugee Orchestra” is an intercultural music project developed by Beyond Skin to create shared welcoming spaces for musicians with Refugee or Asylum status to collaborate, socialise and creatively express their culture with a diversity of professional musicians. The group has sparked much curiosity and is the inspirational sound of humanity at its best.
The event is funded by Arts Council Northern Ireland.
Building Bridges Showcase – World Refugee Day
Tuesday June 20th
Pop-up performances from 3pm-5pm – Lisburn, Market Square – Phone: 028 9033 0956
Music Day Showcase
Wednesday June 21st
Show starts 7.30pm Ends 9.30pm – The Braid Arts Centre, 1-29 Bridge Street – Phone: 028 2563 5077 – Tickets here.
18th May 2017
In May we had two brilliant days at our annual Primary Dance Festival, which took place at Belvoir Players Studio Theatre, with schools across Belfast. Big thanks to the pupils and teachers from Belmont, Donegall Road, Elmgrove, Glenwood, Holy Rosary and Holy Trinity Primary Schools. It was a brilliant celebration of many styles of dance and we are already looking forward to next year! Thank you to Debs, Elizabeth, Jane and Sheena for your support. Photography by Joe Fox, full album available on our Facebook.
DATE FOR YOUR DIARY – the Primary Dance Festival 2018 will be on 16th & 17th May, again at Belvoir Players Studio Theatre, Belfast. All Primary Schools in the Greater Belfast area are welcome, it’s free so come and join in the fun.
9th May 2017
In April/May Mags was in Gaza working alongside choreographer Royston Maldoom on a production for Ayam Al Masrah (Theatre Day Productions). The resulting performance, Identity, was truly beautiful and well received by audiences all over Gaza and the West Bank.
Mags would like to say
“A huge THANK YOU to Royston and all at TDP for an amazing experience. It was a total pleasure to work with you all”.
TDP was establishment in 1995 to work towards increasing access to creative activities for children and youth in an attempt to create the foundations for peaceful development in Palestine.
25th April 2017
Big thanks to everyone who joined us for Unanimous 2017 at the Lyric Theatre, Belfast, including; Alternative Energies (Ballymoney), Brona Jackson Dance Company (Derry/L’derry), Company B (Dublin), Connect Youth Dance (Fermanagh), Dublin Youth Dance Company, Inchicore College (Dublin), Moongate Dance Theatre (Galway), Sutemos Youth Dance (Dungannon) & Wicklow Youth Dance Company. Thanks also to our MC Conor “Doke’ O’Kane and our photographer Joe Fox. It was a brilliant night and the standard of work was fantastic.
Well done to Company B for their subsequent performance at the U.Dance festival in Birmingham.
DATE FOR YOUR DIARY …….Unanimous 2018 will be on Sunday 8th April, again at the Lyric Theatre, Belfast. We hope to see you all again there!
18th April 2017
Are you aged between 14 – 24? Have you got a passion for dance or the performing arts? Not afraid to speak out?
We are looking for people to represent the Greater Belfast area on our existing Youth Steering Group. The current group of 14 members help to inform and develop DU Dance NI’s work and represent us at events locally and further afield.
Think that sounds like you? Get in contact with info@dudanceni.com or by messaging us on Facebook
