At the beginning of February this year Dance Limerick hosted: Dance and Climate Action - A Guilt Free Conversation, a panel and workshop led by dance artist Lisa McLoughlin in Ormston House. The event explored the role of artists in climate action and brought together individuals working in dance and the arts in Ireland to discuss their work, and making new work, in relation to one of the biggest threats of our time.
Speakers and guests worked together to create a Dance Climate Manifesto 2020, which imagined a future in which dance creates dynamic and radically creative solutions, and practical steps to a healthier future.
With the sudden onset of the Covid-19 crisis in Ireland in March 2020, it has become apparent that the measures and suggestions outlined in the manifesto (keeping work local, reducing travel, slowing down processes etc.) will be applicable now more than ever in how dance artists will work in the future.
You can download and read the manifesto below.
Through a combination of performance platforms, residency opportunities, master classes, talks and lectures, Dance Limerick will advocate for artistic dialogue and exchange. In collaboration with dance artists across a range of practices, Dance Limerick will promote the creation of new and innovative work and will devise programmes of access, engagement and participation for the wider public.
Based at the premises of the former Daghdha Dance Company, Dance Limerick houses offices and a fully equipped studio space along with a separate performance venue known as the Daghda Space
Further information about facilities and opportunities for professional dance artists available from Jenny Traynor at
jenny@dancelimerick.ie