Dance Connects
Dance Connects - Call to promote local dance facilitators and local venues
We’re looking to include local dance facilitators, artists, and local venues in two public databases: one of venues available or hireable for dance activity, and one of dance facilitators and artists working and/or based in the Cavan, Monaghan and Fermanagh-Omagh district council / local authority areas.
The database is part of the Dance Connects project. Funded by Creative Ireland, Dance Connects seeks to support a network of dance activity in the rural border area of Cavan, Monaghan, and Fermanagh-Omagh and provides both facilitators and venues a platform for shared information to enhance and build dance in our area.
Complete the 5mins survey to be included in the Dance Connects Faciliators Database
Complete the 5mins survey to include your venue in the Venues for Dance Connects Venue Database
What if I think my practice/genre isn't suitable for the database?
Please complete the survey anyway. The database is inclusive of various dance genres. Plus, by completing the survey you will help us build understanding about the local dance scene, community, and industry.
What if I think my venue isn't suitable for dance? Please complete the survey anyway. All kinds of dance activities can happen in different types of venues. Plus, by completing the survey you will help us understand what your venue is like so we can help build understanding about our local venues.
Please complete the survey by the 25th of June.
If you have any questions, you may contact Victoria Durrer, University College Dublin, at Victoria.durrer@ucd.ie or 01 716 8649.
More information on the research team involved in the project is available at the survey link
As part of the Shared Island dimension to the Creative Ireland Programme 2023-2027, Creative Ireland have supported the initiation of a 24-month project, Dance Connects in Rural Border Regions.
Commencing in 2024, Dance Connects partners local authorities of Cavan, Monaghan and Fermanagh-Omagh with practitioners of diverse dance communities working across professional, amateur and community dance in contemporary, jive/country, line/social, Sean-Nós, hip hop/urban, Scottish Country and Flamenco in their border areas and researchers Dr Victoria Durrer (School of Art History and Cultural Policy, UCD) and Professor Aoife McGrath (School of Arts, English and Languages, QUB).
Employing an innovative, creative engagement approach combining dance practice-as-research and social science, the project strategically builds on the partners’ existing relationships and responds to the main areas of development identified in the research partners' recent (2023) Creative Ireland/Cavan Arts funded pilot project, Sites of Significance.
Working together, partners will respond to an expressed need for sustainable cross-border exchange that informs policy and is meaningful to the unique dance ecology of rural, cross-border areas. The project aims to establish a sustainable, rural dance network that engages in cross-genre peer sharing and skill building through a series of dance sharing events with local facilitators at their sites of practice. It will also develop: a publicly available, cross-border dance database; a touring, interactive, digital dance installation and public engagement programme; and website with video, podcasts and reports capturing regionally shared experiences of dance as a professional, enjoyable, social, cultural and creative activity. In doing so, the Dance Connects project will consolidate new connections forged through Sites of Significance, and also co-develop an innovative method of engaging with dance communities and the general public in further, rural border regions on (and off) the island.
This project is supported through funding by Creative Ireland Shared Island and Cavan County Council through Creative Cavan.