Oona Doherty
Thursday, April 24th
- 6pm: Lady Magma
- 7pm: Melting Sofa
Friday, April 25th
- 6pm: Lady Magma
- 7pm: Melting Sofa
Saturday, April 26th
- 5:30pm: Lady Magma
- 8pm: Melting Sofa
Between intimate and personal stories, cinematic inspirations and choreographic projects, this exhibition unfolds the universe of Oona Doherty, and her loyal collaborator Luca Truffarelli, imbued with social realism, flesh, power and freedom.
Throughout the exhibition, four dancers, including Oona Doherty, take possession of two of the installations, Lady Magma and Melting Sofa. Lady Magma is a Dionysian ritual, dynamic and sensual with a seventies flavour, a fairy-tale celebration lulled by the sweetness of funk music. Exhuming feminine energies with voluptuousness, the performer invites the audience to discover an energy buried in a liberating groove. Melting Sofa evokes the broken memories of youth: what goes on inside a body when everything on the surface seems overflowing and joyful.
Choregraphy: Oona Doherty
Dancers: Maëva Berthelot, Oona Doherty, Erin O’Reilly, Sati Veyrunes
Oona Doherty is a Dance Artist based in Northern Ireland.
Oona studied at The London School of Contemporary Dance, University of Ulster and LABAN She has a BA Honor’s and a Post Graduate in Contemporary Dance Studies.
She has been performing Dance Theatre internationally since 2010 with companies such as TRASH (NL), Abbattoir Ferme (BE), Veronika Riz (IT), Emma Martin/United Fall (ROI), Enda Walsh & Landmark Productions (ROI).
Oona’s 30min solo work Hope Hunt and the Ascension into Lazarus is the winner of the 2017 Total Theatre and The Place Dance Award at the Edinburgh Fringe, the 2016 Dublin Tiger Fringe Festival Best Performer Award.
Oona has been awarded Aerowaves 2017 selected artists. Prime Cut REVEAL Artist 2016-18 Maison de la Danse Lyon Associate Artist 2017/20. La Briqutterie Paris Associate 2018/20.
Her work is acclaimed with a Silver Lion at the Venice Dance Biennale in 2021. In 2023, Oona Doherty works on her new piece Specky Clark, an autobiographical fiction blended with Irish folk traditions. She is associate artist of the CCN d'Aix-en-Provence - Pavillon Noir, for the 2024/25 season.
