Dance Ireland Residency: Luke Feeney

Date:

Mon 4 Nov 2024 - Fri 8 Nov 2024

Time:

10:00 - 18:00

Venue:

DanceHouse

Luke Feeney is the recipient of a Dance Ireland residency. 

For this residency opportunity, the dancer will research the solid foundations for a new dance performance concept “The Animated Identity” based on the idea of a character inhabiting a virtual “cyber” world. The dancer will seek to create a unique and innovative depiction of the relationship that people have with online media and the “cyber” environment and how it effects and influences the way people view the real world.

This concept will bring digital profiles and online interactions to life, making the virtual world into a real and emotional experience. The dancer will explore the difficulties of identity in the modern era and use the residency to critically research his craft of animation and explore different dance techniques, such as “Robot” and “NPC-ing” (non-player characters in online gaming), allowing for the portrayal of relationships that people have with their online identity and how it is skewed by Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Augmented Reality (AR).

Through this concept, the line between the technological and the physical will be blurred and the audience will have to figure out what is real and what is artificial.

Read more Luke..

As a passionate performing artist. Building on a scholarship to the Millennium Dance Complex, Los Angeles, USA (hip-hop dance, 2016), I continued to learn my craft training and performing with Avant Garde Dance Theatre Company (UK), Fly Dance Company and Dance2Connect (Ireland) and dance residencies with Dance Ireland and Shawbrook Dance and mentorship from pioneering dancers from Ireland, UK, Europe and USA (Nikkipop (Ukraine), Robozilla (USA), Harry Barnes (UK), Kerrie Milne (Ireland), Matt Szczerek (Ireland) and Max Revell (UK)).     

My recent work: Arts Council Funded “The Nest” program with Draíocht, Blanchardstown (solo performance choreographed by Monica Muñoz aimed at children and young people 2024), “Fused…” (blending hip-hop dance with non-hip hop music such as “West Coast Cool Jazz”, “Classical” and “80’s Soft Rock” music at the Irish Youth Dance Summer Festival and Winter Gala, 2023/24), “Never Mind the Weather”, 2021/2022 (Dance Theatre performance for young audiences with Fizz and Chips Productions), "RACECAR", 2021 (performed at the Lasta Festival, glór, Ennis, choreographed by Kerrie Milne). 

I also introduce kids to performing through teaching with “Dizzy Feet Performing Arts School.” Since 2022, I have also immersed myself in the hip-hop battle scene across Europe travelling and “battling” regularly with increasing success.