Celebrate the 8th year of SpringMoves with a dynamic programme of dance performances across Wexford Town!
EVENTS & PERFORMANCES
11
APR
11am – 1pm @ Wexford Town Library
Dance Talks:
Finding Our Way Through
A creative conversation
& FESTIVAL LAUNCH
Nicola Curry – Choreographer and Director of Maiden Voyage Dance
Alison Martin – Writer, Pegasus and the Clothes Horse
Mónica Muñoz – Artistic Director, Up-Close, Rolling!
Jeni Roddy – Interdisciplinary Artist and Creative Youth Lab Director
This year artists working across dance, theatre and writing come together to talk about making space for the next generation in the performing arts. We will consider how work is created and how we work together with children, young people and families. The event will be relaxed and conversational, with audiences invited to be a creative part of the discussion. Artists include choreographer and director of Maiden Voyage Dance Nicola Curry, writer Alison Martin, choreographer Mónica Muñoz and artist Jeni Roddy.
The conversation is followed by the official launch of this years’ Festival.
Everyone welcome!
2
MAY
11-11.45am & 1-1.45pm @ National Opera House
Moonlight Dream
by Maiden Voyage Dance
Adult: €15 / Child: €5 + Facility Fee
Step into a world of wonder with Moonlight Dream, a gentle dance and live music experience for families with children under 6, created by choreographer Georgia Tegou with original music by composer Ursula Burns.
Inspired by the soothing rituals of bedtime – cosy stories, soft lullabies and quiet moments – this enchanting show welcomes little ones and their grown-ups on a magical, sensory-rich adventure to the moon.
Follow a curious child, a caring bear and a mischievous fox as they explore the night sky and discover the limitless possibilities of the dream world. With live music, flowing movement, and glowing lightscapes, you are transported to a peaceful, ethereal space where imagination takes flight.
7 – 8
MAY
12-2pm & 6-9pm @ Wexford Arts Centre
The Peace Process
by Flora Fauna Project
Day tickets: €5 / person for schools and groups
Evening tickets: €10 euro / person
The Peace Process is a durational performance where dance, music, film and installation fuse to create a moving meditative ecosystem exploring cycles of evolution, conflict and harmony. It’s a living, evolving ritual that calls our collective attention to our personal power and roles in the growing of peace frequencies. It’s an immersive cocoon to consider personal peace processes while acknowledging that no magic peace button exists – this is a process that will need infinite care and attention and each of us is a piece of the puzzle.
8
MAY
5pm @ Wexford Arts Centre (outside)
Won’t Be Told
by Tumble Circus
Annoying, talented, and stubbornly skilled, Ken and Tina from Tumble Circus present Won’t Be Told, a rebellious circus adventure that rages against the dying of the light. Their world is packed with wild acrobatics, absurd juggling, and hysterical comedy, all delivered with the fierce determination of performers who refuse to go quietly. This is circus with attitude, heart, and a glorious refusal to behave.
MAIN FESTIVAL DAY
9 MAY
ALL DAY
(details to follow)
Wexford Opera House, Wexford Arts Centre, Trimmer’s Lane, Bullring, South Main Street
Artist lineup
Osian Meilir
Originally from Pentre’r Bryn on the west coast of Wales, Osian Meilir is a freelance choreographer and movement artist currently sharing their time between Wales and London. Since graduating from Trinity Laban in 2017, Meilir has been performing and creating work for a variety of performances spaces, having predominantly worked and created dance productions for the outdoors. Their work has toured extensively across Wales, the UK and internationally including Ten Days on the Island in Australia (2023), Biennale de la Danse in Lyon (2023) and at FIET; the Children’s and Youth Theatre Fair of the Balearic Islands (2024).
Meilir’s up-bringing in rural West Wales and their fascination with notions of identity, culture and community feeds their creativity and inspires their work. Their very early experiences and background of Welsh folk dance also has a great influence on their contemporary practice and has led them to appreciate how dance can build meaningful bridges between people from around the world. Embracing unity and harmony, within ourselves and each other, Meilir celebrates the beauty, simplicity and power of human connection.
Maiden Voyage
Maiden Voyage Dance is a commissioning company based in Belfast. Since 2002 we have offered audiences of all ages a chance to experience a wide range of high-quality work from local, national and international choreographers and collaborators invited to create work with us for stage and public space. Our work has been seen across the UK, Ireland and Europe. Maiden Voyage Dance is a foundational partner in Luail – Ireland’s new national dance company established in 2024.
maidenvoyagedance.com
Choreographer Georgia Tegou
Composer Ursula Burns
Flora Fauna Project
Flora Fauna Project is a multi-disciplinary dance company run by Swedish choreographer Maria Nilsson Waller and Irish inter-disciplinary artist Stace Gill. We make work for stage, film and installation. We release music as The Sei.
Flora Fauna Project also includes a far reaching series of curated talks, workshops and community collaborations that focuses on relationship to nature and environment, natural intelligence, evolution and metamorphoses, representation/giving voice to diversity, gender and sexuality, community and social dreaming. These are big topics, and we are trying to have the conversation with many different people, in many different ways, both on and off stage.
Kristyn Fontanella
Kristyn resides in Co. Galway where she pursuits her creative process exploring the two worlds of Traditional and Contemporary dance. Her focus is on a new solo work tracing her dance family tree, with support from Town Hall Theatre Galway, Galway International Arts Festival and the Irish Arts Council.
Dublin Dance Festival, Marseille New Danse Festival, & Tanzmesse Germany. Her ensemble work, IN LiMBO, which has had continued support from the Arts Council, completed a seven venue Irish National Tour in February 2020. Kristyn was involved with two projects for Galway 2020; Plurabella, a solo dance film commissioned by Ríonach Ní Néill (Hope it Rains) and a site-specific dance piece with Dansnest (NL) through Galway Dance Project.
Mónica Muñoz is a dancer, performance-maker, and educator originally from Barcelona and based in Dublin since 2014. She is interested in making exciting new performances for early years and young audiences. Recent productions include FLiP, FALL and FLOAT and the Irish tour of UP-CLOSE, commissioned and presented at Tipperary Dance International Festival, Ireland (2021). Previous work includes the acclaimed Princesses Can Be Pirates, funded by Business to Arts that toured Nationally and Internationally with support from The Irish Arts Council and Culture Ireland.
Mónica is currently a participant of Meitheal, a dynamic support initiative for artists creating work for young audiences across the performing arts disciplines led by Branar. She was The Ark’s John Coolahan Early Years Artist in Residence 2021/22 and a recent GROW Pathways to Production Participant, an initiative from Baboró International Children’s Festival in partnership with Druid, the Mick Lally Theatre, Branar Téatar do Phaistí, The Irish Theatre Institute (ITI) and Galway Theatre Festival.
Tumble Circus
We are Tumble Circus, pioneers of contemporary Irish circus, crafted and brewed in Belfast. We’re acrobatic anarchists, juggling dissidents, the slapstick saboteurs of boredom. We don’t perform shows, we stage circus uprisings. Big tops, streets, fields, if there is space to fly, flip or spark glorious disorder, we seize it.
We make crowds gasp, roar and forget the rules. We want audiences leaving ready to chase wild dreams and ignite tiny revolutions of joy in their own lives. For over 30 years, we’ve toured our riotous Irish circus rebellion across Ireland, Europe and the world.
We don’t just entertain.
We agitate.
We liberate.
We unleash the circus of the people.
this was SpringMoves Dance Festival 2024
OUR KIND SPONSORS AND PARTNERS
Funded through Wexford County Councils Arts Office – Small Arts Festival Grant Scheme 2026.
