Aoibhinn O’Dea
Professional
Aoibhinn O’Dea is a choreographer and dance artist working across the contemporary dance, music and visual arts field.
She graduated with a BA in Fine Art Sculpture (NCAD), where her practice focused on installation and film. She then trained in contemporary dance and somatic movement in Berlin (Tanzfabrik, Marameo, Katapult and Ponderosa) From there she formed a collective called Blush, where they explored dance, theatre and clowning, through site specific and durational performance. They toured across Germany and were mentored by Maria Colusi (Sasha Waltz).
She returned to Ireland and graduated with a 1st class hons MA in Dance and Performance at The Irish World Academy, Limerick. She is currently exploring the effects sound and movement have on one another. Her practice is often site-specific and public, exploring the effects normative social structures have on the body. Through dance she seeks to challenge the societal expectations around human interaction and behaviour.
She teaches inclusive dance workshops across Ireland and collaborates with an array of multidisciplinary artists, such as Isadora Epstein, Cal Folger Day, Acid Granny, Jennie Moran and Péist, underpinning an interest in making dance and performance more accessible to a wider audience.
To date, her work has been supported by Light Moves, VISUAL, Carlow Arts Festival, Bell Table, Dance Limerick, UL Concert Hall, TBG, The Complex, IMMA, Dance Ireland, Dublin Fringe Festival, Glastonbury, Electric Picnic, Altogether Now, among other venues and festivals.
She has choreographed her own work such as Start from 0, Ancient Body (2023), Cruinniú na nÓg Carnival Parade (2022), NORM (2021), Game Changer (2020), The World Outside (2020), Lord Hear Us (2020) and Why Knots (2019).
