2022-Present
Midsummer Parade
Cork Community Art Link
Invoking the spirit of dance halls and dancing bodies from across the city, Country OK dance event was a rollicking celebration of live performance, live music and a party that took place as part of Cork Midsummer Festival 2024:
"Featuring an inter-generational dance cast from communities across Cork, joined by professional dancers with live music by members of The Tan Jackets. Country OK will have you foot-tapping and hip-twisting to the heart-wrenching songs of country music - and the exhilarating nature of a fleeting moment of dancing together. Following the performance will be a dance party, inviting the audience to join in and let loose!"
Siobhán Ní Dhuinnín is a dance artist based in Cork. Her work is primarily place-based and site-specific and includes Bád Shiobhán and Big Dance Night. Siobhán has worked with a range of people; boat-builders, sean nós singers and geologists amongst others. She is an avid country music fan.
Director/Choreographer Siobhán Ní Dhuinnín (in collaboration with the dancers)
Dancers Kailany Marcondes Aguiar, Masha Bezrukava, Bríghid Cahalane, Lisa Cliffe, Yvonne Coughlan, Marion Cronin, Josephine Dennehy, Cáit Ní Dhuinnín, Ger Halbert, Bill Holohan, Hazel Hurley, Maeve Kelleher, Molly Kelly, Claire Ní Mhuirthile, Valerie Mulcahy, Miriam Murphy, Millie Noonan, Mary Pappin, Joyce Maria Rodrigues, Meaghan Richardson, Sarah Ryan, Amir Sabra, Carolina Érika Santos, Vivienne Sonnenberg Weeter, Nóirín O’Sullivan, Solène Vermont, Michelle Whelan, Elaine Winters
Music Members of The Tan Jackets; Solamh Kelly, Cathal MacGabhann, Caoilian Sherlock with Robbie Baron
Lighting Design Ronan O'Shea
Costumes Wayward & Co.
Dramaturgical Support Pan Pan Theatre Company
Producer Mags Keohane
Created by Siobhán Ní Dhuinnín, commissioned by Cork Midsummer Festival, and seeded by the Pan Pan Mentoring Programme.
Supported by the Arts Council, Dance Cork Firkin Crane, Brian Dillon’s GAA Club, Redmonds GAA Club, Rockbán Club and Pan Pan Theatre Company through the Pan Pan Mentoring Programme.
Sponsored by ECCO.
