15th September 2016

Sutemos and Suteminis are going to be performing ‘the Butterfly Effect’ at Culture Night Armagh on September 16th 2016. The groups have been working hard on their performance and will be performing at the Mall Shopping Centre at 6.30pm and at the foyer of the Market Place Theatre and Arts Centre at 7.30pm. For more information head over to the Market Place Theatre and Arts Centre’s Facebook. Be sure to check it out if you are about.

9th September 2016

Alternative Energies Youth Dance group have started back with their classes every Friday at the Joey Dunlop Leisure Centre in Ballymoney. They are working towards an inter-generational Dance Hall Extravaganza project at St. Patrick’s Parish Centre on October 22nd. All newcomers are welcome to classes and no experience necessary!

8th August 2016

Our Artistic Director, Mags Byrne, has recently returned from Granada where she was working with the wonderful Madrid based company, Psico Ballet, as part of the Manuel De Falla International Festival of Music and Dance. 20 young people and 8 dance artists took part in the platform which included works by choreographers Antonio Ruz, Clara Andermatt and Gabriela Martin Leon. Next up Mags will be heading off to Duisburg to work with Duisburger Tanztheater.  She will be helping Royston Maldoom and the company to mount EXILE, a piece choreographed by Royston’s and performed in Belfast in 2009.  The dance will be accompanied by the Duisburg Philharmonic Orchestra.

15th July 2016

Alternative Energies kicked off their summer camp in Ballymoney this year in style with dance workshops culminating in the creation of a new dance piece called “Reigned”. It was lots of fun, with everyone getting involved and being creative. 15 budding choreographers!!!  The week was rounded off with an enjoyable and well deserved bouncing day out at Jump Lanes.

22nd June 2016

At our Day of Dance, which was held this year in June in Ballymoney, our Youth Steering Group for 2016/17 was elected.  The group was first established in 2012 to enable young people to influence, input ideas and feedback on the company’s work. Youth Steering Group members for 2016/17 elected by their peers are Alisha Platt, Anastazja Milczrarek, Esperanca Gusmao, Kasia Kozuch, Lauren Forrester, Lauren Cunningham, Mackenzie Douglas, Rebecca Wallace, Rhiannon Stewart, Sandra Saldanha De Rosa, Shania Vitor and Weronika Nowak. We are looking forward to working with you all this coming year.
DU Dance Young Ambassadors for the coming year are Lisa Ryan and Sean O’Neill.

23rd May 2016

We had a wonderful time again this year at our Primary Dance Festival in Belvoir Players Theatre. The festival ran on the 18th and 19th May and featured 11 different classes from nine Primary Schools. There were also five outreach workshops in the build up to the event. A big thank you to everyone involved and congratulations to all of the children, we look forward to seeing you again next year!

7th April 2016

It’s been a busy five years for Sutemos Youth Dance since their very first performance in 2011 to now two thriving youth dance groups with young people from nine different cultural backgrounds. This Dungannon based youth engagement group has grown in  strength and confidence performing at international youth dance events in Germany, Dublin and Belfast to guest performances on the BBC National Lottery Show in 2015 and at the recent Northern Ireland Assembly’s St Patrick’s Concert at Stormont March 2016.

Their light shows no signs of slowing down either as the group celebrated their five year anniversary with a special performance Twilight at the brand new events space on the Hill of the O’Neill, Dungannon, Saturday 9th April. Bringing together new dance work by Sutemos, choreography from the young dancers themselves and a special debut performance of the newly established Suteminis, a group for 8-11 year olds, the evening presented something new, rich and hugely unique for the people of Dungannon. 

22nd March 2016

Some inspiring young dancers from the north and south of Ireland, took to the stage at the Lyric Theatre, Belfast on March 20th, for Unanimous 2016.

Groups performing – Alternative Energies, Company B, Core Dance Company, ID Dance, Sixth Sense and Sutemos Youth Dance.

With support from

24th February 2016

We’ve been featured in the ‘Why Choose Belfast’ campaign.

9th February 2016

Mags Byrne, Artistic Director, is in Ethiopia with Royston Maldoom and Tamara McLorg to consult on artistic projects led by former members of Adunga Community Dance Theatre – Adulalem Amare and Meseret Yirga. Andualem and Meseret are now running community dance programmes in Addis Ababa and Adama with some of the poorest and most marginalised people.

With Royston, Mags first went to Ethiopia in 1996 for a performance project with street and working children that was meant to last for three weeks. The performance project became a training programme for those young people, which eventually developed into Adugna Community Dance Theatre, three weeks became now 20 years of working and consulting for community dance in Ethiopia.

“It is wonderful to be back in Ethiopia where Royston Maldoom and I started a training programme for street and working children 20 years ago.” Says Mags “Those children are now professional dancers, choreographers and teachers working all over the world and running dance companies and schools for the poorest and most needy in Addis Ababa and Nazareth. I am so, so proud of them and so happy to still be a part of their ongoing development”.

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