17th July 2015

DU Dance are bringing a whole feast of dance to Belfast from Monday 14th to Sunday 20th September.

Events

Youth Dance Jam

Culture Night
Friday 18th September

DU Dance in the Streets

Saturday 19th September
Pop-up performances from 1.30pm
City Hall grounds dance celebration 3.30pm

Youth Dance Showcase

Saturday 19th September
Theatre at the Mill, Newtownabbey, 8pm
All tickets £5
Box Office 028 9034 0202

Online Bookings

Dance Photography & Film Exhibitions

Belfast City Hall: Monday 14th – Saturday 19th September
Crescent Arts Centre, Belfast Monday 14th – Sunday 20th September
Theatre at the Mill, Newtownabbey, Monday 14th – Monday 21st September

8th June 2015

Young people in the Ballymoney area enjoyed a great active, fun and creative Summer Dance Week in July.

If you’re interested in our term time classes, for 12- 18 year olds, please get in touch.

29th May 2015

Our message was get active, get creative & get dancing with DU Dance this summer. Led by Sheena Kelly two week-long summer schools packed a punch for young people in the Dungannon area and took place at the Ranfurly House Arts & Visitor Centre, Dungannon.

6th March 2015

Belvoir Players Theatre

Wednesday 20^th May 2015 (P1-3) & Thursday 21^st May 2015 (P4-7)

This fun, exciting non-competitive event incorporated all styles of dance at all levels by children of primary school age. It is a chance for pupils and teachers to share their dance work with other schools and for the children to see a guest professional dance performance in a theatre setting.

Schools taking part this year were Belmont Primary School, Donegall Road Primary School, Finaghy Primary School, Glenwood Primary School, Hazelwood Integrated Primary School and St Therese of Lisieux Primary School. We welcomed for the first time 100 children from Belvoir Park Primary School as audience members.

Students from Belfast Metropolitan College were our guest performers.

The event is organised by DU Dance with the support of Belfast Education & Library Board

20th February 2015

Are you aged 12-24 years, want to dance & perform?

Come along and join Merge Cru – Belfast based youth dance group fusing Hip Hop & dance theatre…. no experience necessary all we need is your time and energy!

Free sessions – New group running Sundays, 3-5pm from 29th March 2015, Dance Resource Base Studio, 35 Donegall Street, Belfast

For more info contact DU Dance on tel. 9033 0956 or email info@dudanceni.com

11th December 2014

DU Dance is pleased to announce that our BBC Performing Arts Fellow for 2015 is Brona Jackson. We are absolutely delighted! Welcome on board Brona, looking forward to an exciting year ahead.

For more info click here

DU Dance is grateful to the BBC Performing Arts Fund for supporting Brona during this year.

25th November 2014

DU Dance have three youth dance groups running in Ballymoney, Belfast and Dungannon.  If you are between 12 – 21years and want to dance come along a try the groups out. Each group has a slightly different focus and no previous experience of dance is necessary, but be prepared to sweat!!  Details are on our website or give us a call.

This is a photo of some of the dancers from Sutemos (Dungannon) –  as they performed in Armagh at the Marketplace Theatre.  They performed at Armagh Jail on the same evening in September for Culture Night. Now they are working hard devising a new piece for the Unanimous Youth Dance Platform in December.

Youth groups Merge Cru (Belfast) and Alernative Energies (Ballymoney) were both involved in our performance project Fallen.  After a weeks break, Alternative Energies workshops start back Friday 21st November in the Dance Studio in the Joey Dunlop Centre.  Please follow us on facebook for updates on Merge Cru.

Our three inter-generational short films continue to gain screenings reaching a wider audience from as far afield as Fastnett, Glasgow, Brittany, Frankfurt, Manchester , Limerick and now back to Belfast.

In November 2014, a screening took place at the Second Chance Cinema Weekender, South Bank Playhouse, Belfast…. in February 2015 the films were selected by R-Space Gallery in Lisburn as part of a series of #VISIONING and on Saturday 21 February Back to the Wall – our men and boys film choreographed by Royston Maldoom – will screen at the Takeover Film Festival at Queen’s Film Theatre, Belfast with an introduction by Mags Byrne, Artistic Director.

We’re especially pleased to be part of Takeover Film – a festival designed, programmed and run by a team of young people from Northern Ireland.

See further details and full listings here.

Our 4th Unanimous youth dance performance platform took place in December 2014 , at the Crescent Arts Centre, Belfast.  This celebration event gives youth groups from all over Northern Ireland a chance to perform their work in front of a public audience and their peers.

MC Conor ‘Doke’ O’Kane compered an exciting evening of new dance from groups from Ballymoney; Belfast; Derry/L’Derry and Dungannon.

DU Dance, working collaboratively with STEP (South Tyrone Empowerment Project), brought a unique intercultural programme of work to Dungannon culminating in a fantastic performance in the Market Square on Saturday 11th & Sunday 12th April .

Inspired from the legends, myths and heroes from around the world Heroes on the Hill celebrated our diverse and separate histories. 60 young people took to the stage in and through music, dance and storytelling captured our imaginations engaging and celebrating as they reclaimed our hill of many heroes.

Heroes on the Hill, Dungannon. The sun warmed my bones and the performance warmed my heart, your project was a shining example of what the Intercultural Arts Programme was established for!
Joan Dempster, ACNI Arts Development Officer, Community Arts

Went to see Heroes on the Hill show on Sunday in Market Square Dungannon. Amazing show ……. Well done to the organisers & all of the young people involved, an absolute credit to you all. Hope to see this type of show again in Dungannon. Brought together young people from all different traditions, races & backgrounds. This is how to do it no doubt!

Cllr Linda Dillon, Chair Mid Ulster Council

Principal Funder: Arts Council of Northern Ireland with support from Dungannon Arts Forum, Mid Ulster Council Good Relations Programme & Dungannon Youth Resource Centre.