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Dance Limerick Step Up 2023 takes place Wednesday, August 2 and Thursday, August 3

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Dance Limerick Step Up is a programme of professional development for recent dance graduates from Ireland or based in Ireland

Dance Limerick has announced the performance dates for Step Up 2023 featuring five young recent dance graduates from Ireland or based in Ireland

Dance Limerick Step Up 2023
Dance Limerick announces the performance dates for Step Up 2023

Step Up is a programme of professional development for recent dance graduates from Ireland or based in Ireland

It introduces audiences in Ireland to a group of fresh dance talent that will enrich the country’s dance ecology for years to come.

Since it began in 2011, the project has helped over 70 talented young dance graduates to bridge the gap between dance education and professional contemporary dance practice, and to assist them in building networks that support a professional career.


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Following a competitive open call last year, five young dance artists were selected to take part in this year’s edition.

Ghaliah Conroy, Fionnuala Doyle Wade, Saoirse Lambkin O’Kane, Ben Sullivan and Jessie Thompson have been spending the last few weeks working together at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance and at Dance Limerick, developing new exciting work with choreographer Maria Nilsson Waller.

‘Riverine’ explores the concept and realities of rivers. Drawing on the vital importance of the river Shannon for the city of Limerick, Maria casts a wider net that examines the idea of flow, of embodying a place and collaborating with nature.

The structure of the piece follows the journey of streams joining together, forming themselves into the River Shannon. In a flow of constantly falling, rolling and circling it hits Limerick under the moonlight, taking inspiration from everyday life and mythology. Eventually it dissolves into the ocean, only to return to land again with the wind and new dawn.

Don’t miss your chance to see the premiere of this innovative work exploring rhythm, joy and the endless possibilities within our bodies.

Wednesday, August 2nd and Thursday, August 3rd at Dance Limerick

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