Dance United

Performances have included/

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.