Uillinn Dance Season 2025
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30 October to 9 November 2025
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Uillinn Dance Season 2025
30 October to 9 November 2025
Welcome to our eighth Uillinn Dance Season. UDS25 offers audiences and artists an opportunity to experience and take part in a vibrant array of live performances, film screenings & discussions in our unique location in Skibbereen, County Cork.
If you're a regular to our dance season, we can't wait to see you return, get a season ticket HERE. If you have never been to a dance performance before, come along and for a great new experience. Feel free to ask our staff or check our blogs and podcasts for news on previous or upcoming performances.
Uillinn Dance Season is part of West Cork Arts Centre’s growing and ambitious contemporary dance programme which presents opportunities for dance research, classes and workshops, professional development, performance and project work with communities both onsite and off.
You can book tickets to all events by using this Eventbrite Collection link - https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/uillinn-dance-season-2025-4547753
Replicas I Dance Performance I Tipperary Dance
Prelude by Hetty Gazzaniga I Thursday 30 October I 8:00pm I €15 I BOOKING ONLINE I Jim O’Driscoll Gallery I 35 mins
Replicas is one part of a diptych, that pushes back against a world that often feels increasingly confined—welcoming ambiguity and imperfection as valid and vital experiences.
Intrusive I Dance Performance by Hetty Gazzaniga
Prelude to Replicas I Thursday 30 October I 7:45pm I Jim O’Driscoll Gallery I 10mins I
This work-in-progress invites audiences to witness Hetty’s creative exploration into new choreographic movement and immersive soundscapes revealing perspective on the deeply unsettling terrain of intrusive thoughts.
Necromancer I Interdisciplinary Performance I Ian Wilson (Composer) Justine Cooper (Choreographer)
Friday 31 October I 8pm I €10/15 I BOOKING ONLINE I Jim O’Driscoll Gallery I 45 mins I Age guide 10+
Multidisciplinary work influenced by a series of haunting photographs taken during the Troubles in Northern Ireland by Japanese photojournalist Akihiko Okamura.
Dances with Whales I Short films looped for one hour outdoors ON the UILLINN building I Chloe Pisco (Choreographer) Tomasz Madajczak (Multidisciplinary artist)
Friday 31 October I 9:00pm I free entry I Outdoor event I 10min on loop
Collaborative dance explorations with whales and other species.
Missing I Solo Dance Performance I Tara Brandel
Saturday 1 & Sunday 2 November I 8pm & 3pm I €10/15 I BOOKING ONLINE I Jim O’Driscoll Gallery I 35 min I Age guide 13+
An interdisciplinary dance exploring the notion of erasure and how it might impact on people’s lives.
Between Dreams and Reality I Dance Performance I Uillinn Young Dancers
Saturday 1 November I 7:40pm I Pre event to Missing I BOOKING ONLINE I Gallery II I 10 mins
A multiartform interpretation of the liminal space Between Dreams and Reality.
The Peace Process Premiere I Dance & Gallery Installation I Flora Fauna Project
Premiere on Wednesday 5 November at 6:00pm to 9:00pm, Friday 7 November 4:00pm to 7:00pm and Saturday 8 November 10:30am to 1:30pm I €8/10 I BOOKING ONLINE I For school bookings contact Uillinn on 02822090 I The performance is repeated during each booking block, allowing attendees to come and go freely while still catching the full show.
A multidisciplinary performance combining dance, sound and film experience investigating Peace and Conflict.
Prometheus I Work in Progress Sharing I Luke Murphy
Friday 7 November I 7.00pm I €10 I BOOKING ONLINE I UCC and Bollinger I 50mins including Q & A
Sharing of new content for The Prometheus Project, where the artist’s view of myth and contemporary experience is examined.
Boots and Other Myths I Aerial Dance Performance I Elaine McCague with Carmel Winters (co-creative devising director)
SPLIT BILL with Please Break My Heart I Sunday 9 November I 7:00pm I €15 I BOOKING ONLINE I Gallery II I 25 mins
Iconic symbols of labour and masculinity impress themselves on the female body in this interdisciplinary work-in-progress, aerial work.
Please Break my Heart I Dance Performance I Nora Ní Anluain Fay
SPLIT BILL with Boots and Other Myths I Sunday 9 November I 7:00pm I €15 I BOOKING ONLINE Jim O’Driscoll Gallery I 35 mins
Age guide 13+ I The quest for true love, purely to discover how it feels to have your heart utterly broken fusing dance, text, theatre and film.
Four I Online film screening by students University of Limerick’s, Hetty Gazzaniga, Isabella Gainford, Aqilah Faizal and Sequoia Matteoli, choreographed by Monica Munoz
Thursday 30 October to Sunday 9 November I 20 min
Four decodes a language that identifies the seasons using spaces, motions and sensations, rooted in human behaviour.
Against the Waning Light I Film Installation I Paul Murnaghan, Cindy Cummings, Nina McGowan
Thursday 30 October to Tuesday 4 November I10:00am to 4:45pm I Free entry I Gallery III I 26 mins on loop I Age guide 10+
A video installation merging human and non-human landscapes, retracing an ancient departure, from deep seabed to forested hills.
Variation of Stickman I Film Installation I Squarehead Productions
Thursday 30 October to Tuesday 4 November I 10:00am to 4:45pm I Free entry I Café Gallery I Three videos on continuous loop
‘Variation of Stickman’ An artist balances a stick on, and through, another person’s body.
Uillinn Dance Season 2025 is supported by the Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon.
We extend our gratitude to our the artists, arts workers, funders and everybody involved in bringing you this live and exciting programme. We thank our audiences for your support and look forward to seeing you at Uillinn soon!
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