Croi Glan Integrated Dance

We're back with our first national training day for pro and non-pro movers on the floor AND in the air!

Integrated Aerial Dance Workshop Irish Aerial Creation Centre facilitated by our Associated Artist Oran Leong Dance .

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FREE to attend but booking essential via link in bio 🔗 or
https://goteamup.com/p/10931569-irish-aerial-creation-cen/e/100445846-integrated-aerial-dance-workshop-at-iacc/

This professional development is funded by Arts Grant Fund, with generous support from the Irish Aerial Creation Centre, and is part of a nationwide series of 5 free disabled-led professional training opportunities led by Croí Glan in 2026.

Images from spiral workshop at the National Circus Festival of Ireland, Tralee.

Three of our artists, Tara Brandel, Bobbi Byrne and Rachel Paul, attended through the DELVE initiative by . Thank you for a wonderful and worthwhile time!

Some photos from our Integrated Partnering Skills workshop. A big thanks to for hosting us and for their support throughout the year. 🙏

This completes our series of free professional development training days that took place nationwide throughout 2025. They have been a huge success with great feedback. Looking at integrated dance practice and disability in a variety of contexts, they were facilitated by our generous Croí Glan artists in Limerick, Cork, Dublin, Galway and online.

Funded by Arts Grant Fund 2025, and supported by & .

We plan on more for the year to come, so watch this space in 2026!

     

Opportunity for artists outside of Cork! With thanks to Irish Street Arts, Circus & Spectacle Network and Dance Cork Firkin Crane

✨ISACS Bursary Opportunity
The ISACS Network is proud to partner with Croi Glan for their upcoming workshop, Integrated Partnering Skills at Dance Cork Firkin Crane. We’re delighted to support two micro-bursaries of €150 each for artists based outside of Cork, supporting their transport and accommodation expenses to attend.

Led by integrated dance practitioner Tara Brandel and disabled dance artist Rachel Paul, this workshop is an integrated dance training opportunity for professional dancers / performers and disabled dancers. It explores how partnering skills can be used in an integrated setting.

More information on how to apply can be found here; http://bit.ly/4mqcuy1

Image; I Dream of water rehearsal Bobbi Byrne & Tara Brandel - Photo; Deirdre Dwyer

Galway, don't miss out on our free workshop with Croi Glan this Wednesday: LET'S TALK ABOUT DISABILITY WORKSHOP

Let's get frank about disability and the language, politics and culture around disability. A free day-long workshop and discussion by Croí Glan, hosted in the Galway Dance studio.

When: Wednesday, 24 September, 10am - 5pm
Where: Galway Dance Studio, 26 Terryland House, Headford Rd, Galway

Free of charge.

Please RSVP in advance here: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/lets-talk-about-disability-tickets-1611556722539?aff=oddtdtcreator&fbclid=IwY2xjawM-UGBleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFGQ3NYeWx4bUJIblhvTklWAR5QOS7A1FlWgnCGxQSX2bU6RguynmgyjyOXB2lTK19ThziBSNHHfQyihG68gg_aem_BAwRGiY3wZ4u6nJPjiOEdg

We are absolutely thrilled to get a 4-star review for CHANGE by Irish Times Culture and can't wait to share the show with Galway audiences tomorrow night at Town Hall Theatre Galway!!

Galway tickets here: https://tht.ie/4543/change

Full Irish Times review here and below: https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/stage/review/2025/09/22/change-at-dublin-fringe-is-a-call-to-climate-action-rooted-in-urgency-and-optimism/ ⭐️🔗⭐️🎟️⭐️📰⭐️



REVIEW:
Change, at Dublin Fringe, is a call to climate action rooted in urgency and optimism
Dublin Fringe Festival 2025: Croí Glan ask not only what we have lost but also what we might still save

Mon Sept 22 2025 - 10:07

Change
Project Arts Centre, Dublin 2
★★★★☆

Hope is not a passive feeling; it is a practice. Croí Glan, Ireland’s disabled-led dance company, bring that conviction to life in Change. This vibrant interdisciplinary performance asks not only what we have lost to climate change but also what we might still save.

Drawing inspiration from Rebecca Solnit’s Not Too Late and Christiana Figueres’s The Future We Choose, the piece combines movement, sound and light to deliver a call to action rooted in both urgency and optimism.

What strikes first is the space itself. Performers do not just move across it but claim it, turning the stage into a shared ground of visibility and existence. Their bright costumes sometimes evoke the five cosmic elements but also recall the stubborn debris of human-made waste clinging to the planet.

The diverse performers move with remarkable fluidity, sometimes conjoined in sync and sometimes apart, celebrating difference while embodying a unity of purpose. A patchwork of dance traditions, layered with engaging music, lends the piece a poetic flow, pulling the audience between tension and release.

Sound fragments punctuate the movements with reminders of the crisis: capitalism’s accelerating damage. The haunting refrain “Do they not know?” reverberates as a challenge both to those in power and to us in the audience. The breaking and rebuilding symbolised through thin metal rods and crutches emphasise the power within and extend the performers’ reach, almost as if to break the fourth wall and demand introspection.

Visually, the production is dazzling. A looming gigantic pile of rubbish dominates the space, casting shadows that seem to fuse past and present. The lighting design amplifies this tension.

There are points when the show feels stretched, its momentum slackening before regaining focus. However, its message resonates, asserting, “Climate action is a love story.”

Change is less a lecture than an invitation to act, to connect and to imagine a common future worth saving.

Today we are delighted to announce Bobbi Byrne as the new Co-Artistic Director with Tara Brandel of Croi Glan Integrated Dance!!

As a wonderfully talented artist with enormous amounts of experience in the integrated dance world, we know Bobbi will add so much to the company.

Congratulations Bobbi!

Photo: (from L to R)
Producer Gearóid Ó hAllmhuráin w/
Co-Artistic Directors Bobbi & Tara

Read more about our new Co-AD here:

Bobbi Byrne is a disabled, transfeminine dance artist based in Dublin, Ireland. She was one of the first professional disabled dancers in the country and was a core member of Counterbalance, Ireland's first Inclusive dance company, for over a decade. She has worked closely with the SMARTlab inclusive design laboratory, co-devising and touring in various award winning shows at events such as the Special Olympics and World summit of Innovation. Bobbi also spent several years in Spain working with inclusive dance companies Dan Zass and Meet Share Dance.

Unifying Bobbi's practice is a passion for diversity and inclusion in dance and a fascination with the unique movement vocabularies of each individual body. Her own impairment, a unilateral below elbow difference, has made her keenly interested in exploring ideas of asymmetry and imbalance and how these qualities interact with the assumptions of much dance practice.

In 2024 Bobbi completed the Inclusive Dance Cork training programme at Dance Cork Firkin Crane. She also received both the Agility Award and Arts Council Dance Bursary and travelled to Helsinki to work with Finnish choreographer Ervi Siren. A duet based on material from a Dance Ireland residency with Derry based dance artist Soso Ní Cheallaigh, "Variations for Two Disabled Bodies", was commissioned by the Project Arts Centre under the Europe Beyond Access programme and premiered at the recent Dublin Fringe Festival 2025.

We preview CHANGE at Dublin Fringe Festival tomorrow!
Get your tickets now!

"One of the Top 10 Must-See Shows of Dublin Fringe 2025"*

*as selected by Fringe Director Bee Sparks & published by RTÉ Culture 10 Jul 2025

🗓️ 18-20 Sept
📍 Project Arts Centre
🎟️ via link in bio or https://www.fringefest.com/festival/whats-on/change

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