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Choose your dance move! Local dance artist Dylan Quinn invites the community to join him at his mobile Dance Corner in Donegal!
Luail – Ireland’s National Dance Company has commissioned local dance-artist Dylan Quinn to create a bespoke new Dance Corner which will travel with him across the nine counties of Ulster in 2024 and 2025, inviting audiences across the province to come along and dance with him.
When: 14th & 15th November, Donegal Town Centre, The Diamond
1-5pm each day
Free to attend, no booking is required
This month, November 14-15th local dance-artist Dylan Quinn (Dylan Quinn Dance Theatre, Anything to Declare, My Grandfather’s House) invites you to dance with him, as he brings his unique, travelling Dance Corner Donegal.
This custom-built Dance Corner designed and constructed by local artist Jon Kelly, will begin its Ulster-wide tour with three pilot events in two locations; Fermanagh and Donegal, bringing exciting and innovative dance experiences to people outside of conventional spaces, and in their locality.
Dylan is encouraging people from the locality to dance with him in the Dance Corner, for 5 minutes, or for the whole afternoon, before he packs up and moves on to his next destination!
In the Dance Corner – a commission by Luail – Ireland’s National Dance Company in partnership with Maiden Voyage Dance – Dylan will invite people of all abilities and backgrounds to meet him in this purpose-built space, to dance, move or just be together.
Following his pilot in November, Dylan will then travel across 18 locations around the nine counties of Ulster in June and August 2025. This very special and bespoke event is open and welcome to all.
Dance Corner is part of an all-island dance project entitled To This I Belong a commission celebrating home, landscape and community.
The four artists, Tobi Omoteso, Lucia Kickham, Edwina Guckian and Dylan Quinn have been commissioned by Luail to create these four works. With mentoring from multi-award winning Choreographer Rosemary Lee, the artists have been supported to create works that connect back into their respective communities.
As part of this project, and in line with Luail’s ambition to support works that are multidisciplinary in nature, Luail has commissioned Belfast-based film-maker Nicky Larkin, to film the journey of To This I Belong to capture the creation of these works and the impact on the communities and landscapes that have inspired them.
Speaking about the project, Dylan Quinn said: “I am delighted to be presenting Dance Corner and really looking forward to touring the wonderful province of Ulster to meet and dance with people from across the nine counties. Dance Corner was an idea I had many years ago in which I wanted to create a social dance space in every town, village and city that would offer an inclusive “Dance Corner” for people from all walks of life to connect and feel good by dancing together, kind of like a free water fountain but with dance rather than water. I am extremely pleased and proud to have been commissioned by Luail as part of To This I Belong project and to be able to bring the Dance Corner to life”.
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