Dance Limerick presents Country OK by Siobhán Ní Dhuinnín

Dance Limerick´s busy autumn performance season finishes with a rollicking weekend of live music and dance to the best and most loved tunes of country music.

Invoking the spirit of dance halls and dancing bodies of past and present, Country OK dance event is a rollicking celebration of live performance, live music and a dance party like you haven´t seen in years.

Featuring an inter-generational community dance cast from across Limerick, joined by professional dancers with a live band.

Country OK will have you foot-tapping and hip-twisting to the heart-wrenching songs of country music – and the exhilarating nature of a fleeting moment of dancing together.

Following the performance will be a dance party, inviting the audience to join in and let loose.

Choreographer Siobhán Ní Dhuinnín is a dance artist based in Cork City with a passion for place-based performance and improvisation. She enjoys a multidisciplinary and collaborative process and has created work with dancers, sean-nós singers, poets, geologists and visual artists.

Siobhán often works bi-lingually in Irish and English and her work has been shown nationally and internationally. Siobhán is an Arts Council Next Generation Award & Markievicz Award recipient.

She was Associate Artist at Dance Limerick and the Irish World Academy, University of Limerick (2021-2022). She often works bi-lingually in Irish and English and was Dance Artist in Residence, Gaeltacht Mhúscraí 2018-2020.

An absolute highlight of the event is the live band, with musicians Robbie Barron, Solamh Kelly, Cathal MacGabhann and Caoilian Sherlock.

The fantastic costumes by Waywayrd & Co., creative lighting and stage design will transform Dance Limerick Performance space into a veritable country hall... with a twist!

Audiences can sit back and watch, and, only if they feel like it, join the cast in some boot-swinging across the dance floor after the performance.

Come find out more and join the party on Saturday 17 October, 7 pm & Sunday 18 October, 6 pm at Dance Limerick Performance Space (St John’s Church, John’s Square, Limerick, V94 EP92)

Tickets can be bought at dancelimerick.ie/whats-on/

Country OK is created by Siobhán Ní Dhuinnín & collaborators. Commissioned by Cork Midsummer Festival.

Funded by the Arts Council, Cumas Ceantar Uíbh Ráthaigh, Uillinn West Cork Arts Centre, Dance Limerick, Tipperary Dance & Ealaín na Gaeltachta. Supported by Dance Cork Firkin Crane & Cork County Council.

Located at Dance Limerick, John’s Square, V94 E6H2 | Phone number: 061 400994

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