Podcasts
Engage with dance while you are on the go with our podcast series.
Talking About Dance- 2021 series
In these podcasts we hear from Members of Dance Ireland on their training, their career, inspirations and insights into them and their work.
Hear from the many voices located nationwide and from artists whose practices cross genres, reflecting the diversity of work created here.
Artists include: Tobi Omoteso, Lindsay Ashe-Browne, Zoe Ashe-Browne, Laura Macken and Anne Maher.
Listen on Spotify, Google Podcasts, Pocket Podcasts and Radio Public.
DI 30th Anniversary: Joanna Banks and Fiona Quilligan
In episode 1 of this 3 part series celebrating Dance Ireland’s 30th anniversary, dance historian and writer, Deirdre Mulrooney is in conversation with dance artists Joanna Banks and Fiona Quilligan.
We hear about the early days of the professional dance community in Ireland as well as learn about their careers and who and what has inspired them artistically over the years.
Dance Today: Fearghus Ó Conchúir and Tobi Omoteso
In this episode, Lisa McLoughlin (dancer, choreographer, PhD candidate and teacher at Irish World Academy), talks to Fearghus Ó Conchúir (Artistic Director of National Dance Company Wales and Deputy Chair of the Arts Council, Ireland) and Tobi Omoteso (Director Top 8, freelance dance artist / Hip Hop Innovator and Street Dancer) on why we dance and the impact dance has on society outside performance.
This podcast series is produced in partnership with Dublin Dance Festival and Dance World.
Dance Today: Choreographers Liz Roche and Dylan Quinn
In this episode of Dance Today, Louise Costelloe, Dance Ireland’s Programme Manager, talks to choreographers Liz Roche and Dylan Quinn about the impact of political and social circumstances, keeping creative the impulsive active and the value of relationships in creating dance work.
This podcast is a must listen to for dancers and choreographers!
The Dance Today podcast series is produced in partnership with Dublin Dance Festival and sponsored by Dance World.
Dance Today: The Nature of Festivals
PODCAST 2019
In this podcast, produced in partnership with Dublin Dance Festival and sponsored by Dance World, dance writer and critic Michael Seaver is in conversation with Benjamin Perchet, Artistic Director of the Dublin Dance Festival, and Jenny Traynor, Director of Dance Limerick, about programming decisions, the impact dance festivals have on audiences, dance artists and the development of dance at a local & international levels.
Movement and Words
In this last episode of our Embodied series, Irish poet Annemarie Ní Chuirreáin (Bloodroot, 2017) and contemporary choreographer Áine Stapleton talk about their work around silenced women in Irish society, our bodily relationship with words, putting the body back at the centre of our experience, and the places where dance and poetry overlap.
Space: Bodies in relation
In the fifth episode of Embodied, Irish dance artist Liv O’Donoghue and architect Laurence Lord of AP+E talk about the importance of collaboration and a democratic approach to making in their respective fields, as well as the need to focus on the individual experience of the ‘user’. Laurence Lord is an architect, curator and teacher. He co-founded with Jeffrey Bolhuis the architecture studio AP+E, which is a research and design studio based in Cavan & Amsterdam. He is a co-curator and commissioner for the Irish National Pavilion, Free Market, at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2018 and currently runs a unit, Country Living, in the Cork Centre for Architectural Education. Liv O’Donoghue is a maker and performer based in Dublin. She trained at the Northern School of Contemporary Dance and her work as a choreographer has been presented widely both nationally and internationally. She has previously performed with companies including Dead Centre, Liz Roche Company, Fearghus Ó Conchuir, Emma Martin Dance, Irish Modern Dance Theatre, and junk ensemble, touring widely throughout Europe, Australia and the USA. Liv is also a co-founder of DRAFF, an international platform, in print and online, which focuses on process in dance and theatre.
Material: Dancers and Technology
The body is traditionally the focus in dance, but for some artists what’s important is the body in relation to other objects and materials. Originally an aerialist, Emily Aoibheann is forging a unique practice that is both somatic, and dependent on equipment and physical environment. Her research brings her into close proximity with urban and wild contexts. In this episode, Rachel introduces Emily to award-winning author Mark O’Connell, author of To be a machine: Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, and the Futurists Solving the Modest Problem of Death for a discussion around our relationship with technology and materials.
Impact: The Power of Art?
What does it mean to make ‘socially engaged’ art? Is all art socially engaged by default? Can a dance performance be socially transformative? In episode 3, Impact, Rachel speaks to Irish choreographer and performer Ruairi Donovan and theatre maker and activist Grace Dyas (THEATREclub) to consider how live performance and putting bodies on a stage can effect social and political change.
Borders: The edges of bodies, Episode 2
Recent research has shown that more than 50% of the cells in our body are not human. The non-human part is known as the ‘microbiome’ and is a growing area of research for scientists.
Episode 2 of our Embodied series, Borders, brings together Catalan choreographer Aimar Perez Gali and Ireland’s foremost microbiome researcher Dr. Gerard Clarke to talk about how shifting ideas around where our bodies end and begin can affect how we think about community and our connections with each other.
Gut-punch – How dance works on an audience Episode 1
In Dance Ireland’s new podcast series curated and hosted by Rachel Donnelly, Oona Doherty and neuroscientist Francesca Farina (co-author of the book Why Science Needs Art) speak about ‘bodily memory’ and mirror neurons, and what this means for how dance acts on an audience.
In this episode in the Embodied Series, our guests discuss: what is the language in which dancers are communicating if not using words? Is it possible for a dancer to ‘transfer’ the emotional state they’re experiencing on stage to the audience? On what level does dance affect an audience; is it a bodily or a cognitive level?
Listen to more Dance Ireland Podcasts here.
Dance Today: Choreographers Liz Roche and Dylan Quinn
In this episode of Dance Today, Louise Costelloe, Dance Ireland’s Programme Manager, talks to choreographers Liz Roche and Dylan Quinn about the impact of political and social circumstances, keeping creative the impulsive active and the value of relationships in creating dance work.
This podcast is a must listen to for dancers and choreographers!
The Dance Today podcast series is produced in partnership with Dublin Dance Festival and sponsored by Dance World.