Making NOISE Making MOVES

In this first episode of our 2022 edition, we talk to emerging choreographers Niamh and Kate about training, realising one's ever evolving choreographic voice before we discover that one word that summarises where they are now in their process.

Naimh and Kate are part of the EMERGENCE 2022, a mentoring programme for young choreographers.

Lucia is a Dublin-based dance artist performing and collaborating internationally since 2011. Lucia was Dance Ireland's Hatch Award recipient in 2018.

Trained in The Netherlands, she has worked with companies and artists which include TRASH(NL), Liz Roche Company, John Jasperse, Philip Connaughton, Maria Nilsson Waller, Junk Ensemble, Ciotóg, Catherine Young, Nightstar Dance Company, Laura Murphy and Oonagh Kearney.

Lucia has performed in Dublin Dance Festival, Dublin Fringe Festival, Belfast Theatre Festival, Edinburgh Fringe and toured throughout the UK, Sweden and The Netherlands.

Lucia has undertaken intensive training with David Zambrano in Flying Low & Passing Through, furthering her interest in group dynamics within improvisation, composition and teaching environments. In recent years she has been a recipient of residency and project awards from the Arts Council of Ireland, Dance Ireland, Firkin Crane Cork and the Tyrone Guthrie Centre. Lucia is Associate Artist with Liz Roche Company for 2018/19.

Jessie Keenan is a choreographer making work that crosses over into science, visual art, architecture and archives. Interdisciplinary connections are at the heart of her work.

In 2018 she premiered Fragments at Dublin Fringe Festival where it was nominated for Best Design. This work was developed with the support of Arts Council Ireland’s Next Generation Bursary.

Other selected projects include: Her Supreme Hour, a solo commissioned by the Dublin Dance Festival/GPO Witness History Public Art Commission for Embodied 2016; Low Lying, a collaborative work with visual artist Ciara McKeon and composer Robbie Blake, Dublin Fringe 2016.

She is currently working on a new project with Blake, in collaboration with academic researcher Dr Zosia Kuczyńska. This new work, emerging from archival encounters with the Brian Friel Papers at the National Library of Ireland, will premier in Dublin in Spring 2021.

Mariam Ribón, originally from Spain, moved to Dublin late 1995. In 2002 Mariam graduated with First Class Honors in her Master in Contemporary Dance Performance at UL. As a professional dancer she has worked with New Balance Dance Co., Daghdha Dance Co., MaNDaNCe, Cois Céim, Opera Ireland, Irish Modern Dance Theatre, Shakram Dance Company and Catherine Young Dance and various dance companies in Spain.

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Mariam has been the Artistic Director of both Dublin Youth Dance Company and The Irish Youth Dance Festival since 2002. Since then she has overseen a ongoing expanding programme of artistic and educational activity, supporting young dancers and students of dance in a wide variety of areas.

Under Mariams directorship DYDC has participated in many high profile local, national and international dance events.

Through DYDC, Mariam is continuously exploring opportunities for youth dance in Ireland and she has created cultural links with Debla Danza, Spain 2007, 2008 Flash Dance Company, Czech Republic 2009, 2010, Ludus Dance Company, UK 2010, 2011, Evoke Youth Dance Theatre, Germany 2012, Diverse Space Youth Dance Theatre, US 2012, Malmo Youth Dance Company, Sweden 2013, L’Acadenie des Arts, France 2013, Dance Northern Ireland 2013, Rimini Si Danza, Italy 2017, 2018 and Rise Youth Dance Company and Reach Festival, UK 2019.

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During 2009 Mariam devised, mentored and supervised the |Tran-si-tion| project with DYDC as part of Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council’s ‘Place & Identity’ Programme of Per Cent for Art commissions funded through the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government.

She has collaborated with film directors, visual artists, photographers and designers in different artistic endeavours with Dublin Youth Dance Company.

She teaches extensively all ages and levels and prepares her young dancers to entering 3rd level dance education in Ireland and abroad.

Taryn Vander Hoop, a lifelong student of movement, is a dancer, choreographer, and international yoga and dance teacher known for her long unique sequences and encouraging spirit. She helps her students find joy in movement and freedom and ease in the body and mind.

She graduated from the University of Wisconsin with a B.S. in Dance, English Literature, and Spanish and moved to NYC in hot pursuit of a career on the stage. Knowing her ultimate goal was to teach she made a 2-year pit-stop at NYU Tisch School of the Arts where she received an MFA in Dance Performance and Choreography. At Tisch, Taryn met her partner-in-crime, Sumi Clements, and they co-founded Summation Dance, an all-female modern dance company, now based in NYC and LA. The company has performed at notable venues, such as Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), Baryshnikov Arts Center (BAC), Jacob's Pillow, and Z-Space. For more on the company, check out summationdance.org

Her own choreography has been shown at BAC, Danspace at St. Mark's Church, Fridman Gallery, Judson Memorial Church, Loyola Marymount University, Peridance, and commissioned by Rutgers University Summer Dance Series and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Additionally, she has been involved in projects with Gerald Casel Dance, Laura Peterson Choreography, and Sarah Holmes Danceworks, as well as performed the works of Andrea Miller/GALLIM, and Sydney Skybetter/skybetter & associates. Most recently, Taryn has been traveling the country with Summation’s latest endeavor, Highway HabitUS, a multi-phase artistic research project which studies how geography shapes ideology, both politically and culturally, and movement.

Philippa Donnellan is a professional dance artist, choreographer and arts facilitator based in Dublin.  As the Director of CoisCéim BROADREACH from 2006-2020, she developed a range of creative and educational residencies and partnerships with leading Irish institutions, and directed and choreographed many inspiring projects with different communities in Dublin and across Ireland – including devising and delivering an annual performance project for people aged 50+ for the Bealtaine Festival that brought together three departments in Dublin City Council (2007 -2015).  Other key projects for Broadreach include developing the youth dance theatre group, CREATIVE STEPS, and leading CREATIVE DANCE TALES, 38 WOMEN, OFF THE WALLS, EMILY, SHORELINE, the EXIT15 commission and THE DOOR.

As an independent artist, Philippa continues the BODY OF WORK  Movement Research Project by exploring themes of work with different communities in Kildare, supported by Kildare Arts Service and the Arts Council. In January 2021, in collaboration with dancer Olwyn Lyons, she became dancer in residence in two Dublin and Kildare care centres as part of Age & Opportunity Artist in Residence in Care Settings 2021, supported by Creative Ireland. She is also the curator of Dance Limerick Connects – a new programme that aims to create pathways for communities in Limerick to connect with dance through participation, discussion, and performance.

Kathleen Isaac, founding Director of the Arnhold Graduate Dance Education Program at CUNY Hunter College, is a recent recipient of the Dance Teacher Magazine 2016 Dance Teacher Award for Higher Education and the Leadership Award from the National Dance Education Organization, which she received in Washington, DC in October, 2016.

Dancer and choreographerJohn Scott founded Irish Modern Dance Theatre in 1991, one of the most original and responsive dance companies working in Ireland today. A Dublin-based ensemble, Scott and international guest choreographers create distinctive dance works with diverse casts, mixing virtuosic Irish and international dancers with African and Middle Eastern refugees and torture survivors. Our works include ‘Lear’, ‘Inventions’, Actions’ and ‘Fall and Recover’ - all recognised for their intelligence, honesty and humanity. Our work crosses disciplines, subverts expectations of dance and dancers and finds new ways to explore contemporary issues.

Larry Keigwin is a native New Yorker, choreographer, and curator who has danced his way from the Metropolitan Opera to downtown clubs to Broadway and back. As a choreographer, Keigwin is celebrated for his electrifying and refreshing vision of dance that embodies a theatrical sensibility of wit, style and heart. He founded KEIGWIN + COMPANY in 2003 and as Artistic Director, Keigwin has led the company as it performed at theaters and dance festivals throughout New York City and around the world. Over 15 years, KEIGWIN + COMPANY has presented Keigwin’s distinct brand of contemporary dance on a myriad of premier stages including, The Kennedy Center,The Joyce Theater, Works & Process at the Guggenheim, New York City Center, among others. Keigwin has created 23 works for KEIGWIN + COMPANY, in addition to the acclaimed large-scale community project, Bolero, which has been commissioned in 15 communities across the country and is now being developed as a dance film, Bolero Seniors, directed by Andy Kokoszka.

Aphra Hartmann is a dancer and choreographer based in Dublin, Ireland. She is a member of the EMERGENCE 2021 Cohort. Here she talks about her experience in dance and her participation in EMERGENCE 2021.

Making NOISE Making Moves is part of  the NOISE Moves Youth Dance Festival for 2021. NOISE Moves is part NOISE Dublin, the Youth Arts Programme of South Dublin County Arts Office. The festival is funded by the South Dublin County Council and the Arts Council of Ireland with support from Dance Ireland and Creative Ireland, partnerships with CONTACT studio and Music Generation South Dublin and the festival is sponsored by Dance World. Follow us on social media @noisemoves and please subscribe to our YouTube channel https://bit.ly/NMYDF21 to see our latest pieces of work.