On our first episode of Triskel Backstage, we speak with Dance Curator Ríonach Ní Néill.
RÍONACH NÍ NEÍLL has over 20 years experience in performance, curation, socially-engaged arts practice and community education. Her work has no fixed borders in its focus on civic dialogue, and has involved collaborations across dance, architecture, film, geography, engineering and health, in Irish and in English.
Ríonach was a long-time member of Tanztheater Bremen, and performed in Ireland for Finola Cronin, Fearghus Ó Conchúir and Liz Roche amongst others. In 2006 she established her company Ciotóg for which she has choreographed 11 works, and the Macushla Dance Club for +50s, which nurtures creative exchange between older people and the professional dance community. Her curatorial works includes founding Corp_Real | Galway Dance Days, an international platform for multi-disciplinary engagement with dance and social issues, and dance curator of Firkin Crane. She was a founder faculty of the Geragogic arts facilitation course of the Bundesakademie für Kulturelle Bildung, Wolfenbüttel, Germany, and holds a PhD in Geography from UCD.
Her debut film, The Area, with co-director Joe Lee, won the Dioraphte Jury Prize for Best Film, Cinedans Festival 2014; Best Irish Film at Light Moves Screendance 2014, and Best Short Dance Documentary at Choreoscope International Dance Film Festival 2015. Her second film, I Modh Rúin won Best Irish Short Film, Wexford Documentary Film Festival 2021. Her 2021 film with Joe Lee, Portráidí Criathraigh, documents Sean Ó Flaithearta’s land art and has screened in film festivals worldwide and on Irish TV.
In the last decade, her focus is on engaging the public with the climate crisis through multi-disciplinary public art projects in Ireland, Sweden and European Capitals of Culture, Galway and Novi Sad.
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Triskel Backstage is hosted by Gillian Hennessy, Marketing and Development Manager with Triskel Arts Centre, Cork, and Eimear O'Brien, Director of Lunasa PR.
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