WORKSHOP 1
Dee Grant
Dance Artist in Residence Waterford (10-1pm) FREE
WORKSHOP 2
Maria Svensson
Former Dance Artist In Residence, An Lab Dingle Kerry (2-4pm) FREE
Workshop & discourse around the importance and integrity of artists seeking to develop a strong participatory community presence alongside their daily artistic practice.
Open to Dance Artists/Participatory Arts Facilitators (WORKSHOP 1 of interest to health care professionals who seek a stronger dance practice)
Morning Session 10-1pm /Afternoon Session 2-4pm
Dee Grant

For the past decade, Dee Grant has incorporated Somatic Dance concepts – namely with Developmental Movement Patterns, basic BMC principals and Authentic Movement into her own performance & choreographic practices. Dee has been particularly successfully utilising these practices working with professional contemporary dancers and amongst her dance students and community dance projects.
Dee also works with intellectual disability and mental health organisations locally. Dee lectures part-time in Movement & Dance Studies at Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland lecturing to students studying for a BA Early Childhood Studies , BA Social Care programmes & BA (Arts) Theatre Studies courses.
Maria Svensson

Maria has toured and showed work in festivals such as ABUNdance International Dance Festival, STOFF (Stockholm’s Fringe Festival), Cork Midsummer Festival, Féile na Bealtaine, NEST, Quarter Block Party, TOCHT International Dance Festival, Echo Echo Movement & Dance Festival and in venues throughout southern Ireland. She has also screened dance films at festivals in Europe, North Africa and North America, most recently at The Phoenix Cinema in Dingle which marked the finish of a two year residency (2016-2018) at An Lab, Dingle, funded by the Arts Council & Kerry County Council.
Moreover, Maria is artistic director of the solo dance festival ‘Going Solo Together‘ which takes place yearly in her hometown Örebro, Sweden. In 2017 the bilingual and inclusive version of the festival premiered in Dingle together with co-director Nick Bryson of Legitimate Bodies Dance Company. For more information about Maria and her work please visit her website www.mariasvensson.com“
Dance Artist in Residence
Dee Grant