Country Ok
Open Call for Participants
DATES
Wednesdays 11, 18, 25 February & 4, 11, 18 March 2026
TIMES
SHARE
Country OK OPEN CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS
A Dance Performance Project for Adults and Young People (aged 14+)
Country OK is coming to you! Led by Choreographer Siobhán Ní Dhuinnín, Country OK is a dance performance project inspired by the foot-tapping, hip-twisting, heart-wrenching songs of Country music – a live celebration of the spirit of social dances, dance halls and dancing bodies.
Workshop Dates: Wednesdays 11, 18, 25 February & 4, 11, 18 March 2026, Mornings (11:00am – 12.30pm)
Where: O’Donovan Rossa GAA Pavilion, Skibbereen, P81 HF74.
Or
Evenings (6:30-8.00pm)
Where: Uillinn West Cork Arts Centre
Final Practices & Performance
On-site run-through: Thursday 26 March
Dress run through: Friday 27 March
Performances: Saturday 25 March & Sunday 26 March
Where: Skibbereen Town Hall, P81 X951.
Times: TBC
Deadline for Registration: Wednesday 4 February 2026
Registration/Further Information: Siobhán Ní Dhuinnín siobhannidhuinnin@gmail.com; 086-1074770
Country OK is free to participants.
You are invited to participate in a specially established performance group, where you will collaborate with Siobhán to create original choreography, learn new styles, and dance in the final performance with a professional cast.
Dance experience of any kind is useful, but not essential – a love of dance and full commitment to the project are the most important ingredients!
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.