Ruairí Ó'Donnabháin
About Ruairí Ó'Donnabháin
has been making dances in Ireland since 2008. He is a recent Masters in Choreography Graduate from DAS Graduate School in Amsterdam & holds a joint honours B.A. in Drama & Theatre Studies and English from University College Cork. Donovan is from County Cork, Ireland and his choreographic practice is concerned with ‘aesthetic practices of care’ and queering representations of the dancing body. He is currently living and working on Oileán Chléire, a remote island and Gaeltacht off the south west coast of Co. Cork investigating Gaeilge as a site of queer resistance and new materialist collaboration ‘in the wild’. He has previously worked and performed for Jennifer Walshe, Mårten Spångberg,THEATREclub, Keith Hennessy, and Arcade Fire. His work includes 'aon mhac tíre nó roinnt mic tíre’, ZOMBIES; why death is dying or are you working hard enough?, Solstice, and the micro-festivals HOME and Quarter Block Party. Donovan was a Next Stage artist at Dublin Theatre Festival in 2010 and completed a year-long residency with Daghdha Dance Company. He was awarded a place on the prestigious DanceWeb scholarship at Impulstanz, Wien. In 2016 he participated on Pan Pan Theatre Company’s International Mentorship and Bursary programme where he worked under the mentorship of Stewart Laing towards realising a large scale public art commission in the context of the Irish 1916 Centenary Celebrations entitled SOLDIERS His work has been supported by CREATE’s ‘Scéim Ealaíntóir sa bPobal’, CCC Arts Office, Arts Council Ireland, Culture Ireland and Youth In Action.