Professional Class

We’re delighted to welcome Catherine Young back to Dance Limerick as our next Professional Class guest teacher for February/March 2021.

About Catherine’s Class

Catherine’s classes are highly physical and technical and incorporate some somatic, contemporary dance and yoga training to enable the dancer to experience the full body in motion. Catherine’s contemporary classes are influenced by her yoga and African dance training and are highly physical in nature. Class begins with a strong floor based warm up that works to standing and her style focuses on floor work, breath, release, rhythm, balance and the full body in motion.

About Catherine Young

Catherine Young is a Dance Ireland Associate Artist, a UK BENCH Fellow & has been Dancer in Residence in Kerry with Kerry County Council & Siamsa Tíre for many years. She was also artist in residence at the Backstage Theatre & Shawbrook in 2017/2018. Catherine has created work for the Dublin Dance Festival, Dublin Fringe Festival, Coisceim Dance Theatre, The Big Bang Festival of Rhythm, Féile Fáilte and the University of Limerick among others. Her company works ‘State of Exception, ‘Ultima Thule’, “Woman Stood Regardless’ and ‘Welcoming the Stranger’ have all been received to critical acclaim, with ‘Welcoming the Stranger’ opening the Ramallah Contemporary Dance Festival in Palestine in 2017. Her new work “Floating on a Dead Sea” inspired by her time in Palestine will premiere in 2021. Catherine established The Welcoming Project in 2016 – a multi-cultural dance programme that fosters cultural integration & social inclusion of Ireland’s new communities through dance. Catherine creates powerful, physical, visceral human work that touches, goes deep, showing the human condition in all its shades, its grit, edge, truth, honesty, beauty. Sweaty, raw, hungry, percussive, pulsating work. Connecting the outside with the inside.