COUNTRY OK  Created by Siobhán Ní Dhuinnín

Commissioned by Cork Midsummer Festival

South Parish Community Centre as part of Cork Midsummer Festival 2024 

Country OK dance event is a rollicking celebration of live performance, live music and a party that invites you to let loose and join in!

Invoking the spirit of dance halls and dancing bodies from across the city in a collage of solos, duets and group formations. Country music stirs the dancing and the dancers move to a foot-tapping, hip-twisting sensory cacophony that celebrates an exhilarating, fleeting togetherness. Calling to the spirit of dance in each one of us, dancers move through expressions of joy, sorrow, tenderness, care and defiance.  The only way to keep the dance alive is to dance.  

ARTIST

Siobháin 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.  

www.siobhannidhuinnin.com

CREATIVE TEAM

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 and Caoilian Sherlock, with Robbie Barron

Lighting Design / Ronan O'Shea 
Costumes / Wayward & Co.
Dramaturgical Support / Pan Pan Theatre Company
Producer / Mags Keohane 
Production Manager / Maisey Lorimer
Sound Engineer / Tomás O’Brien
Stage Manager / Sydney Sheehan
Technician / Séamus Hegarty
Photography / Clare Keogh
Graphic Design / Imagination Designs

LEAD ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Funded by the Arts Council. Commissioned by Cork Midsummer Festival. 

Supported by Dance Cork Firkin Crane, Brian Dillon’s GAA Club, Redmonds GAA Club, Rockbán Club & Pan Pan Theatre Company through the Pan Pan Mentoring Programme.

GALLERY

Photo Credits Jed Niezgoda & Clare Keogh