NEST Festival Week - 48 Performances in 1 Week for Young Audiences
48 Festival Performances
Premiered as part of the Irish Youth Dance Festival 2021 at Draíocht
20-21 Nov 2021
Every week in Dublin 15, hundreds of children engage in a variety of dance classes, including ballet and Irish dancing classes. They dance together in community centres, sports halls and school halls. When the pandemic hit, dance for everyone just stopped!
Resilience and creativity pushed young people and teachers to navigate new ways of engaging together; online, on astroturf and in their kitchens. wherever and however they could. FOOTLOOSE is a film celebrating this resilience.
FOOTLOOSE was made possible through direct funding from Fingal County Council Arts Office, and was premiered as part of the Irish Youth Dance Festival at Draíocht, Blanchardstown, 20-21 November 2021.
Producer: Draíocht, Blanchardstown
Filmmaker: Conor Donelan, Glad Animal Movements
Music Composition: Stephen Quinn & Shinook
Children & Youth Arts Team Draíocht: Sarah Beirne & Paula Quinn
Performers: Sadhbh & Aoibheann Leonard of The Kathryn Manicle School of Irish
Dancing & Dancers from The Clare Connolly Dance & Ballet School
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