Joel O’Donoghue

Guest Contemporary dance teacher

Styles
· Contemporary Dance
· Release based Contemporary Dance and Flying Low

Teaches
· SYD:B Contemporary Dance

Training
· Trinity Laban
· Performance Design and Practice (2015-2016) at Central Saint Martins, UAL.

Joel has worked as a performer for a range of internationally renowned companies such as: Pina Bausch’s Tanztheater Wuppertal, Luca Silvistrini’s Protein, Ben Wright’s BGROUP, and Hagit Yakira Dance. As a choreographer he has performed his own work at a variety of established venues both in the UK and abroad, such as Sadler’s Wells Lillian Baylis Studio, The Place, Tripspace, and L’Escaut (Brussels). He was also commissioned to create a dance film work for Ballet Boyz, entitled Yes, which was premiered in 2021 as part of an online festival celebrating the life of Sir Ken Robinson.

In 2016 he received a Distinction in Performance Design and Practice, at UAL, and has since used these skills to design, source and construct set and costume for both his own work and other peoples.

He is now interested in taking his own work to less conventional performance spaces, in order to make dance more accessible to the wider public.