Country OK

Country OK dance event is a rollicking celebration of live performance, live music and a party that invites you to let loose and join in!

Country OK
Siobhán Ní Dhuinnín

28 & 29 March 2026, 7 to 9pm

Tickets: €7/€5 concession

120mins (45min show/15min interval/60min dance party)

Invoking the spirit of dance halls and dancing bodies, Country OK dance event is a rollicking celebration of live performance, live music and a party that invites you to let loose and join in!

Featuring an inter-generational dance cast from communities across West Cork, joined by professional dancers with live music by members of The Tan Jackets. Country OK will have you foot-tapping and hip-twisting to the heart-wrenching songs of country music - and the exhilarating nature of a fleeting moment of dancing together.

Following the performance will be a dance party, inviting the audience to join in and let loose - to a live country music band playing tunes inspired by the likes of Hank Williams and Willie Nelson!

“amazing show last night, it was a pleasure to bring my parents, we all loved it”

The space is wheelchair accessible. Earplugs provided for those who might be noise sensitive.

Country OK is created by Siobhán Ní Dhuinnín. Commissioned by Cork Midsummer Festival. Funded by the Arts Council, Cumas Ceantar Uíbh Ráthaigh, Dance Limerick, Ealaín na Gaeltachta, Tipperary Dance & Uillinn West Cork Arts Centre. Supported by Dance Cork Firkin Crane & Cork County Council.

CREDITS:

Director/Choreographer: Siobhán Ní Dhuinnín (in collaboration with the dancers)
Dancers: Grace Cuny, Molly Kelly, Sarah Ryan, Amir Sabra with an intergenerational cast from across West Cork.
Music: Members of The Tan Jackets; Solamh Kelly, Cathal MacGabhann and Caoilian Sherlock, with Robbie Barron
Development: Marion Cronin
Lighting Design: Ronan O'Shea
Costumes: Wayward & Co.
Dramaturgical Support: Pan Pan Theatre Company
Producer: Mags Keohane
Production Manager: Hanan Sheedy
Sound Engineer: Arran Mac Gabhann
Stage Manager: Aoife Byrne
Photography: Clare Keogh, Jed Niezgoda, Zé Batiera
PR: Emer Casey
Graphic Design: Imagination Designs

About Siobhán:

Siobhán Ní Dhuinnín is a dance artist from Cork, Ireland. The primary focus of her work is on place-based and site-specific dance film and live performance. Siobhán enjoys a multidisciplinary and collaborative approach and has created work with sean-nós singers, poets, geologists, boat-builders and visual artists. Her main curiosities include; multi-lingual working environments, intergenerational gatherings, community structures and finding ways to connect through the body to our surroundings. She often asks ‘why do people dance?’

Participation is a key strand of Siobhán's work, her intention is to facilitate performance projects that give people from all walks of life the opportunity to dance and perform. She is an avid Country music fan!

Siobhán’s work has been shown nationally and internationally including at Dublin Dance Festival, Tipperary Dance Platform, Echo Echo Festival of Movement and Dance, Dance Limerick, Folkestone Fringe (UK), Florida State University (USA) and Kaunas Biennial (LT).

Siobhán is an Arts Council Next Generation Award recipient. She was Associate Artist at Dance Limerick and the Irish World Academy, University of Limerick (2021-2022). She often works bi-lingually in Irish and English and was Dance Artist in Residence, Gaeltacht Mhúscraí 2018-2020 funded by Arts Council.

Siobhán trained at Northern School of Contemporary Dance (UK) and subsequently completed a Masters in Contemporary Dance Performance, Irish World Academy of Music and Dance graduating in 2012. She has performed with Joan Davis, Jessie Keenan, Junk Ensemble, Laura Murphy, Mary Nunan and Mary Wycherley. Siobhán was also a member of Croí Glan Inclusive Dance Company performing works by Fearghus Ó Conchúir and David Bolger.