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What Next Dance Festival 2021
June 14, 2021 - June 19, 2021
Various Prices
What Next dance festival returns 14-19 June 2021 to bring you a programme of fresh and captivating performances and interactions from a bold new generation of dance artists.
Dive In, Discover Dance at the What Next Dance Festival, taking place online from 14-19 June 2021, streamed directly into your home from Dance Limerick. This year’s innovative programme includes exciting dance performances by emerging artists from Ireland and abroad, insightful dance dialogues discussing pressing issues, interactive workshops for all ages, and opportunities for audiences, guests, and artists to connect. Now in its fourth year, What Next promotes dance discovery through a rich and carefully curated programme.
This year, we are delighted to invite What Next audience members to join us, both in-person and online, with our ‘Watch at Dance Limerick’, and ‘Watch at Home’ tickets. Watch at Dance Limerick tickets include a table for two people to watch the performance streams on a cinema screen in our beautiful venue, St. John’s Church, John’s Square. Please note: the in-person tickets are very limited due to social distancing and Covid-19 safety measures.
Festival Calendar
Monday 14 – Saturday 19 June
What Next Dance Clubs for Young People @ 10 am-5 pm (Schools Event)
Suitable for children aged 7-12yrs
Led by our highly experienced tutors, the sessions are a fun introduction to movement through creative dance.
Monday 14 June
WOMEN & WORK, THE CONTRACT Taster Workshop @ 6.30 pm-8 pm (Watch at Home)
A new dance theatre project open to women aged 18 to 80+
Tuesday 15 Jun
Bodies of Water Reading Group 6 pm-7.30 pm (Watch at Home)
This is an invitation to share a body of text, to read aloud together and to hydrate our interconnected feminist thinking and embodiment.
Thursday 17 June
BABAE by Joy Alpuerto Ritter + Festival Opening @ 5.45 pm (Watch at Dance Limerick or Watch at Home)
Combining her roots in Philippine folk dance, classical training and vocabulary of hip hop and voguing, BABAE is a one-woman interplay between the animalistic and sensual qualities of ritual and power.
Prior to the screening, there will be an official Festival Welcome by WHAT NEXT curators Catherine Young and Jenny Traynor.
Friday 18 June
Professional Workshop with Joy Alpuerto Ritter @10am-11.30am (Watch at Home)
WHAT NEXT festival artist Joy Alpuerto Ritter leads an online professional dance workshop, suitable for dance artists and advanced students.
Bodies of Water Reading Group @ 2 pm-3.30 pm (Watch at Dance Limerick)
This is an invitation to share a body of text, to read aloud together and to hydrate our interconnected feminist thinking and embodiment.
Step Up Commissions Programme Triple Bill @ 6 pm (Watch at Dance Limerick or Watch at Home)
Step Up dance project celebrated its 10th anniversary in 2020, and to mark the occasion the project commissioned three past participants to make a new solo work to present at WHAT NEXT dance festival 2021.
Saturday 19 June
Context, Relevance & Sustainability Panel Discussion @ 10 am-12 pm (Watch at Dance Limerick or Watch at Home)
Prof. Nicholas Rowe, Lisa Fingleton, Maria Nilsson Waller, Stace Gill & Philippa Donnellan, join us to discuss and reflect on how the arts can provide expression for life and the places and communities in which we live.
Professional Workshop with Sung Im Her @ 1 pm-2.30 pm (Watch at Home)
WHAT NEXT festival artist Sung Im Her leads an online professional dance workshop, suitable for dance artists and advanced students.
NO FOLLOWING by Rachel Sheil @ 3 pm-3.30 pm (Watch at Dance Limerick or Watch at Home)
This Thunderous Trio is going to give you a tutorial on how to make human cake! With layers that include joy, the inner child, separation, reunion, isolation, total destruction and a permanent sense of existential dread!
NUTCRUSHER by Sung Im Her @ 5 pm-5.45 pm (Watch at Dance Limerick or Watch at Home)
Starkly repetitive and energetic, NUTCRUSHER looks at sexual objectification and power by questioning how we relate to our bodies, how they are presented and re-presented, and how cultural context affects this.
Festival Artists Q&A @ 6 pm-7 pm (Watch at Dance Limerick or Watch at Home)
Join us for an insightful and interactive panel discussion with our What Next dance festival artists, as they discuss their practice, influences, inspiration, and more. Led by Suzy Blok, head of ICK Amsterdam.
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