Country Ok
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Skibbereen Town Hall I Sat 28 Mar & Sun 29 Mar, 7pm to 9pm
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Country OK
Uillinn Dance Season: Spring 2026
(Community engaged project) I Skibbereen Town Hall I Sat 28 Mar & Sun 29 Mar, 7pm to 9pm I 120mins (45min Show/15min interval/60min Dance Party) I €5/€7 booking HERE
Invoking the spirit of dance halls, the Country OK dance event is a rollicking celebration of live performance, live music and dancing that invites you to let loose and join in!
Featuring an inter-generational dance cast from communities across West Cork, joined by professional dancers and live music by members of The Tan Jackets with Robbie Barron, Country OK will have you foot-tapping and hip-twisting to the heart-wrenching songs of country music. Following the performance, the audience is invited to join the dance party and let loose to a live country music band playing tunes inspired by the likes of Hank Williams and Willie Nelson!
“amazing show last night, it was a pleasure to bring my parents, we all loved it”
The Town Hall is wheelchair accessible. Earplugs provided for those who might be noise sensitive.
This residency time will be spent rehearsing Country OK dance event with local dancers and dance enthusiasts. The aim of the process is to bring people together who share a love of movement, providing people with an opportunity to learn new movement, to develop movement that is unique to each person and to perform for family and friends. Live music is an important part of the process and each workshop will be accompanied by a musician. The final performance features a four-piece band and Country music costumes in Town Hall, Skibbereen. A team of four professional dancers will also be part of the show. This show brings together different elements of my work including; working with an intergenerational cast (different ages and stages can bring a richness to the process that everyone benefits from); connecting people to their dancing bodies through seeing dance and doing dance (I have done this through events such as Big Dance Night and The Shake). Working with live music in this way is new to my process and confirms my instinct that live music can transform the dance experience both as a viewer and mover.
Siobhán Ní Dhuinnín’s work is primarily focused on creating dance performances that are deeply connected to place and the communities and creatures that inhabit those places. Siobhán enjoys a collaborative process and has created work with boat-builders, sean-nós singers, poets and geologists.. She often works bi-lingually in Irish and English and was Dance Artist in Residence, Gaeltacht Mhúscraí 2018-2020 funded by Arts Council. Siobhán has received the Next Generation Award and the Markeivicz Award. She is an avid Country Music fan.
Siobhán Ní Dhuinnín is a dance artist from Cork, Ireland. The primary focus of her work is on place-based and site-specific dance film and live performance. Siobhán enjoys a multidisciplinary and collaborative approach and has created work with sean-nós singers, poets, geologists, boat-builders and visual artists. Her main curiosities include; multi-lingual working environments, intergenerational gatherings, community structures and finding ways to connect through the body to our surroundings. She often asks ‘why do people dance?’
Participation is a key strand of Siobhán’s work, her intention is to facilitate performance projects that give people from all walks of life the opportunity to dance and perform. Siobhán’s work has been shown nationally and internationally including at Dublin Dance Festival, Tipperary Dance Platform, Echo Echo Festival of Movement and Dance, Dance Limerick, Folkestone Fringe (UK), Florida State University (USA) and Kaunas Biennial (LT).
Siobhán trained at Northern School of Contemporary Dance (UK) and subsequently completed a Masters in Contemporary Dance Performance, Irish World Academy of Music and Dance graduating in 2012. She has performed with Joan Davis, Jessie Keenan, Junk Ensemble, Laura Murphy, Mary Nunan and Mary Wycherley. Siobhán was also a member of Croí Glan Inclusive Dance Company performing works by Fearghus Ó Conchúir and David Bolger. Siobhán is an Arts Council Next Generation Award recipient. She was Associate Artist at Dance Limerick and the Irish World Academy, University of Limerick (2021-2022). She often works bi-lingually in Irish and English and was Dance Artist in Residence, Ionas Cultúrtha an Dochtúir Ó Loingsigh 2018-2020.
Country OK is created by Siobhán Ní Dhuinnín. Commissioned by Cork Midsummer Festival. Funded by the Arts Council, Cumas Ceantar Uíbh Ráthaigh, Dance Limerick, Ealaín na Gaeltachta, Tipperary Dance & Uillinn West Cork Arts Centre. Supported by Dance Cork Firkin Crane & Cork County Council.