Dance United

Performances projects have included and will include:

Youth DU U Ensemble (April 2012)

Six young people, who successfully auditioned for a UK wide youth dance ensemble, will be supported to perform with the ensemble as par of there Olympic celebrations in the Southbank Festival Hall, London.  DU Dance will support the young people of Northern Ireland involved in this project.

Exile (Palestine, August 2011)

Dance United NI delivered a performance project and professional training programme in the West Bank, Palestine.  The training programme involved 20 professional dancers from across the West Bank in a ten day development course.  The performance project involved 119 young Christian and Muslim teenagers from four towns working together over a five week period.  the resulting performance toured to Ramallah, Bethlehem, Jerusalem and Zebabdeh.

Celebration (Belfast, December 2009)

To open this inter Education & Library Board celebration performance DUNI devised and choreographed a piece involving 30 dancers and 20 drummers from across the North, East and West of Northern Ireland

Overture 2012 (London, November 2008)

For Dance Umbrella, London, Royston Maldoom assisted by Mags Byrne and Steve Mason, delivered Overture 2012. 120 young people danced to Shostakovich’s Symphony No 10 at the Royal Albert Hall, London, accompanied by the London Symphony Orchestra.

The Quest (Switzerland, June 2008)

250 young people aged between 5 and 14 years from Schule Bannfeld and Olten worked for four weeks with the company. Concluding performances were in the Olten Stadttheater.

Magma (Waterfront Hall, Belfast, May 2007)

Performed as part of the Shankill Schools Project, The Fire Within.
Performers: pupils from Belfast Boys Model School and Blackmountain Primary School.

Can Do Can Dance (The Deutsche Schauspielhaus, Hamburg, September 2006)

A community dance festival programme involving performances, lectures, seminars and master classes. The programme involved five choreographers working with specific community groups and mentoring German choreographers who were assisting on the programme.
Dance United NI worked with 92 children from a primary school in Hamburg’s red-light district and five local choreographers who were mentored through this programme.

Cool Moves (Armagh, April 2005)

A dance-for-film project with a substantial in-service training programme for teachers and youth leaders.
Performers: 250 teenagers and 10 teachers/leaders from schools and youth clubs in the Southern Education and Library Board area of Northern Ireland.