Fearghus Ó Conchúir

Fearghus Ó Conchúir is a choreographer, dance artist  and artistic director.  Brought up in the Ring Gaeltacht in Ireland, he  completed degrees in English and European Literature at Magdalen  College Oxford, before training at London Contemporary Dance School.

Frequently collaborating with artists and experts from other  disciplines, he is a champion for what dance can help us understand  about how we live in the world. His film and live performances,  presented around the world, create frameworks for audiences and artists  to build communities together. His multi-platform work, The Casement Project, was one of the Arts Council’s National Projects for Ireland 2016 and was also part of the Ireland 2016 International Programme and of the 14-18now programme of WWI Centenary Art Commissions.

From 2018-2020 Fearghus was Artistic Director of National Dance Company Wales where focused  the Company on making brilliant work with and for all kinds of people  in all kinds of places.  This included premiering his work, Annwyl i mi  at the Eisteddfod and bringing it to Japan as part of Wales’ cultural  programme around the Rugby World Cup; as well as making a dance film  with the participants of the Company’s Dance for Parkinsons group and  curating KIN with new work by Alexandra Waierstall and a revival of  Nigel Charnock’s iconic Lunatic  in a programme designed to reflect on what it takes to build resilient, inclusive communities of support, challenge and care.

In addition to his own choreography, he has danced for other  companies such as Adventures in Motion Pictures, Catapult Dance Company,  Ciotóg, Claire Russ Ensemble and Arc Dance Company, where he was  assistant to the choreographer, Kim Brandstrup.

He was the first Ireland Fellow on the Clore Leadership Programme  and continues to contribute to the programme as a facilitator, coach  and speaker. in 2019 he was appointed Deputy Chair of the Arts Council  of Ireland.  He is former board member of The BBC Performing Arts Fund, of Project Arts Centre, of Dance Digitial, of  Create and of Dance Ireland.

He was a reporter for Imeall, TG4′s flagship arts programme.

Fearghus is one of the founding Associate Artists at Project Arts Centre. He gained his PhD  at the Geography Department in NUI Maynooth with the support of an IRC Employment-based Scholarship.

‘Ó Conchúir has an intellectual restlessness that pulls him in  different directions, but his sure-footedness, … will ensure his ideas  continue to be communicated limpidly’  Michael Seaver, Ballet Tanz Yearbook 2006

Source: http://www.fearghus.net/