Dancer from the Dance Festival of Irish Choreography is a series of mixed programmes or gatherings of Irish and Irish-identifying choreographers, crossing borders of ethnicity, dance practices, generations, genders and dance styles from Contemporary to sean nós to classical ballet. Now in its 8th year, the festival features over 22 choreographers performing short exciting dance works celebrating the strength and diversity of the Irish identity and the Irish dance landscape.
Partners include Dance Ireland, Project Arts Centre, IFI Irish Film Institute, Dublin City Council, Galway Dance and Millenium, Année européenne des Normands.
'Dancer from The Dance' Festival of Irish Choreography
6th - 8th July
'Human Geography' , Galway International Arts Festival
13th - 26th July
Human Geography is a community-led dance and storytelling project created with Galway’s migrant communities.
Led by choreographer John Scott, known for working with diverse casts exploring migration and trauma, and performer Alessandra Azeviche, it brings participants together to share personal stories.
Through workshops, lived experience becomes movement and performance, mapping journeys of arrival, identity and belonging. Blending dance, spoken word and ensemble storytelling, it offers a powerful portrait of a diverse, contemporary Galway shaped by shared experience.
In partnership with Galway City Council.
'HYPERACTIVE' , Mermaid Arts Centre, 30th September 2026
HYPERACTIVE is a high-energy human dance installation for five virtuosic outstanding male dancers with wild street energy - dancing styles from Broadway to Jazz to Afro-Brazilian. Athletic, high-energy, funny and exciting, the dancers dive into relentless, physically demanding routines that leaves them visibly exhausted, adding a sense of raw,
vulnerable honesty to the stage. It functions as a "sugar rush" of dance energy that seamlessly translates the raw electricity of street dance into a highly conceptual theatrical setting.
HYPERACTIVE shows a snapshot of contemporary Irish masculinity. Incredibly dynamic, stretching horseplay and dance to the limit and suitable for all, commissioned by Galway International Arts Festival and Dublin Dance Festival, touring internationally to Festival Racconti di Altre Danze, Italy, Espace Culturel Hermine, France and La MaMa Moves Dance Festival, New York.
