Oona Doherty - OD  Works

Oona Doherty - OD Works

Tipo de artista: Conductor

Born in London, she trained at St. Louise’s Comprehensive College in Belfast, London Contemporary Dance School, Ulster University and LABAN in London. Since 2010, she has worked with renowned companies such as TRASH in the Netherlands, Abattoir Fermé in Belgium, Veronika Riz in Italy, United Fall/Emma Martin in Ireland, and Enda Walsh & Landmark Productions.

In 2016 she created her first solo work, Hope Hunt and the Ascension into Lazarus, which won the Best Performer Award at the Tiger Dublin Fringe Festival and the Total Theatre Dance Award at the Edinburgh Fringe. In 2017 she premiered Hard to be Soft – A Belfast Prayer, voted the best British dance show by The Guardian in 2019.

Since then, she has created the pieces Lady Magma, Navy Blue and Specky Clark. She has collaborated with David Holmes, Jamie xx, LANKUM and Enda Walsh. She was awarded the Silver Lion at the Venice Biennale in 2021 and is an associate artist of Sadler’s Wells, Ballet Preljocaj and Maison de la Danse in Lyon. In 2024 she was named honorary fellow of Trinity Laban.

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